Satisfied Quotes - Page 10

• Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hunting, Outlets, Impulse

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.452, Routledge

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• Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, Silence

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• There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

  John Ruskin

  Differences, Leaving, Intellectual

  John Ruskin (1855). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.82

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• Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

  Margaret Fuller

  Friends, Stars, Heart

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• Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless but hurtful; and that the entire disuse of it would tend to promote the health, the virtue, and the happiness of the community, we hereby express our convention that should the citizens of the United States, and especially ALL YOUNG MEN, discontinue entirely the use of it, they would not only promote their own personal benefit, but the good of our country and the world.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Men, Community

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• Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

  Madame de Stael

  Land, Rich, Merchants

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• If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

  Lee Iacocca

  Procrastination, Starting Over, Waiting

  "Stop procrastinating in 3 minutes with one simple question" by Chris Winfield, www.businessinsider.com. February 23, 2015.

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• Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Passion, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often.

  Edna O'Brien

  Children, Parent, Mets

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• I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.

  Freya Stark

  Self, Grace, Rich

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wisdom, Fall, Men

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• When the desire is born, right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you've got this desire that hasn't been satisfied. Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it's time to stop being unhappy about what's undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what's been achieved - we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive.

  Esther Hicks

  Feelings, Unhappy, Desire

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• If I've operated on 8,000 brain tumours, if 7,999 patients were satisfied, if I'd done the right thing, if I have funded research like I have, if I've raised millions of dollars like I have, and yet there was one patient out there who was unhappy, I think it's a price that you pay. The good would overcome that one bit of bad.

  Charles Teo

  Thinking, Brain, Having Fun

  "Dr Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2011.

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• By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.

  Michael Ian Black

  Book, Writing, Hair

  "An Interview With Michael Ian Black: "Oh, There's Plenty Of Bad Reviews On Amazon."". Interview with Jory John, www.buzzfeed.com. March 8, 2014.

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• I am often tempted to think of success in terms that are defined by others: records sold, popularity gained, album reviews, etc. These are impossible demands, however, and they can never be satisfied. Letting finite others define our worth is a horrible way to live. Only the Infinite Other [God] has the authority to do this.

  Jon Foreman

  Thinking, Albums, Way To Live

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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• I try to explain the difference to a client between cleaning and restoration.Cleaning is simply removing some light to moderate soils. Restoration is removing those hardened deposits and stains that require heavier cleaners and much more time. Or on a building that has just been built or renovated it's removing all the construction debris. Setting expectations can go a long way to having and keeping satisfied customers.

  Tony Evans

  Light, Differences, Long

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• Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack.

  Andy Stanley

  Vocabulary, Snacks, Meals

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

  Margaret Deland

  Grandmother, Men, Vices

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• A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Men, Theory, Self-satisfaction

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• Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

  Lucille Kallen

  Satisfaction, Week, Good Week

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• some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Glasses, Years, Office

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• Once you've been number one, you can never be satisfied with less.

  Chris Evert

  Ambition, Numbers

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• Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Sight, People, Wanting More

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• men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

  Melanie Klein

  Baby, Ambition, Ambitious

  Melanie Klein (2002). “Envy and Gratitude”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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