Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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• There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Credit
  • Satisfaction
  • Truck

• Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Want
  • Always
  • Hunger

• Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Real
  • Enjoy
  • Hunger

• Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Good
  • Wealth
  • Satisfaction

• We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • World
  • Powerful

• 'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Games
  • Everyone
  • Hunger

• I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Me
  • Thought
  • Tennis

• I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Good
  • Family
  • Army

• It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Food

• Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Human
  • Poverty
  • Hunger

• With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

  

  Jack Black
  • Acting
  • Satisfaction
  • Brains

• For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Things
  • Find

• I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Afraid
  • Knowing
  • Satisfaction

• Had I found the back of the net it would have been a double satisfaction but I've scored many goals and the important thing was for me to play well.

  

  Alessandro Del Piero
  • Important
  • Goals
  • Satisfaction

• I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Think
  • Career
  • Satisfaction

• I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Singing
  • Satisfaction
  • Don't Want

• They have the highest customer satisfaction that I've seen.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Satisfaction
  • Customer

• If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals to serve others, to continue and to practice self-discipline. You will not compromise your standards or beliefs.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Work
  • High
  • Respect

• Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Friendship
  • Illusion
  • Satisfaction

• Many people worked with the inspiration to free the country by throwing the British out. After formal departure of the British this inspiration slackened. In fact there was no need to have this much inspiration. We should remember that in our pledge we have talked of the freedom of the country through defending religion and culture. There is no mention of departure of the British in that.

  

  M. S. Golwalkar
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Consciousness
  • Awareness
  • Constant

• When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Mother
  • Childhood
  • Parent

• Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Satisfaction
  • Hunger