Satisfying Quotes

• It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.

  

  David G. McAfee
  • Nature
  • Opinion
  • Ancient

• People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren't satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their life, they get really scared.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • Scared
  • Terrified

• Learn to ignore everything anyone (including myself) has ever told you about wine protocol. Sometimes win drinking, like spontaneous sex on the kitchen table, is far more satisfying when you toss out all the rules.

  

  Bob Blumer
  • Rules
  • Ignore
  • Protocol

• [Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind.

  

  William Lawrence Bragg
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Flying

• What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Humanity
  • Desires
  • Bondage

• A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Dream
  • Appetite
  • Satisfying

• An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

  

  Solon
  • Desires
  • Disaster
  • Fortunate

• How much more satisfying to seduce an angel than a villain?

  

  Cate Tiernan
  • Angel
  • Villain
  • Seduce

• In a way, I'm glad I'm first because I won't have to panic about following anybody other than industry legend John Romita Jr. And he drew Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, which is one of the books that had a massive effect on me as a reader and an artist. It has been intimidating, scary, exciting, and incredibly satisfying.

  

  Declan Shalvey
  • Scary
  • Industry
  • Panic

• I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.

  

  George Michael
  • Hope
  • I Love
  • Musician

• The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Ego
  • Instinct
  • Possibilities

• There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Knowledge
  • Satisfying
  • Forgiven

• It's a very satisfying decision that the prosecutor has reached.

  

  Carsten Juste
  • Decision
  • Satisfying
  • Prosecutor

• Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Commonplace

• In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number.

  

  Carmine Gallo
  • Writing
  • Number
  • Speaking

• In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Life
  • Death
  • King

• Full color experience is peculiarly satisfying even though it is exhausting and leaves you feeling two-thirds color blind when you're not making the effort.

  

  William Tapley Bennett Jr.
  • Feelings
  • Blind
  • Exhausting

• There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

  

  George Meyer
  • Religion
  • Tension
  • Satisfying

• Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Discipline
  • Result
  • Cheerfulness

• I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

  

  Renee Fleming
  • Humanity
  • Calling
  • Cathartic

• I just want to say, if you're going crazy, take a break. I felt overwhelmed by stuff that wasn't satisfying me, things I was supposed to do for my career. I stopped and said, 'Let me get back to the basics.'

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Career
  • Satisfying
  • Get Back

• Discontment is an insidious thing, trapping us into thinking that which is enough is longer enough, and that which is satisfying is no longer satisfying.

  

  Ann Spangler
  • Enough
  • Satisfying
  • Discontment

• The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It's a terrifically satisfying thing.

  

  Evelyn Lauder
  • Satisfying
  • Gratification
  • American tradition

• You're using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation, you totally throw that out the window. But somehow, they're both as satisfying.

  

  Reid Scott
  • Window
  • Animation
  • Muscles

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