Satisfied Quotes

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

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.

The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.

All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no.

Life can be swamped by sex very easily if sex is not normally satisfied.

Revenge is never what you think it's going to be. There's no pleasure and glory, and when it's done your grief remains. Once a man does the things you're talking about, he will never be the same, and he can never go back to who he was before. Worst of all, no matter how many enemies you kill, you are never satisfied. There is always one more who deserves it. When it becomes too easy to kill, it never ends.

Memory is satisfied desire.

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

Jesus taught that we'll never be satisfied with anything we own, only with Who owns us.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a time, it didn't think that the master, who lived alone and seemed to have few friends, would have wanted a toaster of such institutional proportions. With toast, it's quality that matters, not quantity.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race. ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!

Whenever I hear about a child needing something, I ask myself, 'Is it what he needs or what he wants?' It isn't always easy to distinguish between the two. A child has many real needs which can and should be satisfied. His wants are a bottomless pit. He wants, for example, to sleep with his parents. He needs to be in his own bed. At Christmas he wants every toy advertised on television. He needs only one or two.

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it.

To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.

Be dissatisfied enough to improve, but satisfied enough to be happy.

Learn to be satisfied. It is just as easy as being dissatisfied-and much more pleasant.

Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

Women's childhood relationships with their fathers are important to them all their lives. Regardless of age or status, women who seem clearest about their goals and most satisfied with their lives and personal and family relationships usually remember that their fathers enjoyed them and were actively interested in their development.

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does it appear that the happiest lot of terrestrial existence can set us above the want of this general blessing; or that life, when the gifts of nature and of fortune are accumulated upon it, would not still be wretched, were it not elevated and delighted by the expectation of some new possession, of some enjoyment yet behind, by which the wish shall at last be satisfied, and the heart filled up to its utmost extent.

I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about.

I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman.

Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

My mother didn't feel very satisfied about the English background that I had received in the public schools in Littleton. So, she insisted that I take a year under the high school level. So, I was in boarding school nine years.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

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.

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.

I don't want to be remembered for my activities of my past, but for what I am doing today. By that I mean, I don't want to rest on my laurels satisfied by my past deeds. I want to contribute to the advancement of our Folk each and everyday.

We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.