Satisfied Quotes
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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
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I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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Oh, come on, you must know ‘Leave It Black.’ I see a black door and I’m extremely satisfied with how it looks?
Catherynne M. Valente
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
Honore de Balzac
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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
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Comfort food is the food that makes us feel good – satisfied, calm, cared for and carefree. It’s food that fills us up emotionally and physically. … Finding comfort in food is a basic human experience.
Ellie Krieger
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What beat me was not having brains enough to stick to my own game—that is, to play the market only when I was satisfied that precedents favored my play.
Edwin Lefevre
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A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
Michael LeBoeuf
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Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.
Helen Keller
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There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.
Bill Nichols
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Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.
Nora Waln
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If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
Eugene V. Debs
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Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be satisfied. I was so long in the outer brightness, I am not used to this upheaval: Being at home in my own soul, Never to be led elsewhere. I want nothing, I long for nothing, I hum gently the sounds of childhood, And I reach home astounded In the warm beauty of dreams. Heart, how torn you are, How blessed to plow down blindly, To think nothing, to know nothing, Only to breathe, only to feel.
Hermann Hesse
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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.
Blaise Pascal
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I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person.
Ravi Shankar
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Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied.
John Kendrick Bangs
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My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature.
Euell Gibbons
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Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.
Adele Logan Alexander
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The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.]
Blaise Pascal
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My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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I'm never satisfied, I always want to do better. That's how it is to be an elite athlete, you're never happy. When you start getting happy and you start feeling satisfied, you're done.
Alexander Gustafsson
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I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax." But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me.
Serena Williams