Instead of a passion for the Yankees or fly-fishing or birding, I want to pass on to my sons a love of… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We obey people we don't trust, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like, using money we don't… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
“Sense gratification sprouts from the Ego within, as a deflated human nature. And when this ego is crashed it can go either… — Rita A. Barnes-Enlightened Light Worker Copy Share Image
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
I love the values football can teach. It gives young people a sense of how to defer present gratification for future success,… — Leigh Steinberg Copy Share Image
I can make dough in a machine faster than I can make it by hand, but I want to make it by… — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Everything is a tool. Every tool has a purpose. Every purpose always ends with a result. The end result is always a… — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
“That her will and wishes had opposed my own just a little more. This by the way is known as Werther's Axiom,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need… — John Berger Copy Share Image
A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I like the Internet as place to get instant gratification: posting a comic online is the quickest way to get attention for… — Liz Prince Copy Share Image
The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo.… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
“Because money permits a constant stream of luxuries and indulgences, it can take away their savor, and by permitting instant gratification, money… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life. The beautiful things that God makes are His gift to… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I enjoy it all: performIng, doing TV, movies, comedy, drama, stand-up, animation voicework, singing, but you get that instant gratification from stand-up… — Kam Williams Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the term 'guilty pleasure,' because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
“Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I do see that the world that we live in is collapsing to a certain extent, and civilization as we know it… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
