Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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I'm never satisfied.
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You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
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If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want
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Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.
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Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.
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Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.
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We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.
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Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.
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When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.
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The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.
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I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
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You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.
