Satisfied Quotes
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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
Ernest Hemingway -
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
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less.
Anthony Robbins -
If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca -
In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.
Abraham Lincoln -
men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould -
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
William Osler -
Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"
Tim Ferriss
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Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.
Lao Tzu -
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
Blaise Pascal -
Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.
Albert Einstein -
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
John Calvin -
The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle — the entire structure.
Tim Page
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We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied. People are like, "You've got all these number ones!" "Yeah...what else?" It all translates into money, and that's how people think of being successful, but my success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.
Esther Renay Dean -
I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.
Eve Arnold -
I swear again, I had been told that they came to rule for 500 years. but how? you would rule as long as the people are satisfied with your rule, as long as they want you only.
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi -
I watched a TV documentary about how animals are farmed, killed and prepared for us to eat. I saw all those cows and pigs and realized I couldn't be a part of it any more. It was horrible. I did some research to make sure I could still obtain enough protein to fight and, once satisfied that I could, I stopped. I'll never go back.
David Haye -
I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Never let your actors go before they are satisfied with a scene.
Catherine Corsini -
We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.
Benedetto Croce -
The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes his idea of the world of morals and of life upon those whose faith he ruins. He works at his age old task, the annilation of the religion of Christ.
Bernard Lazare -
We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is duly perceived and rooted in the heart.
John Calvin