Satisfaction Quotes - Page 9

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.

Anybody who is anybody seems to be getting a lift - by plastic surgery these days. It's the new world wide craze that combines the satisfactions of psychoanalysis, massage, and a trip to the beauty salon.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

If we succeeded, we will have the primary satisfaction of ending the war

I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my technique in killing, gives me satisfaction.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

Art is there for nourishment, not explication.

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.