Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized. — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
“She was entertained only by the gratification of her desires and by the direct exercise of her own charm.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't… — Faye Kellerman Copy Share Image
I definitely think we're living in a world or generation where we need constant gratification and adoration with Instagram and likes, and… — Colleen Ballinger Copy Share Image
Gratification comes from contributing what you want to contribute without looking to see what others contribute or not. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy.… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later. — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I am very much in the instant-gratification camp. I am too much of an actor not to be. I am used to… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle… — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
I get the most gratification in life by feeling like I'm doing something purposeful and meaningful and makes a difference to other… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment.… — Eustace Conway Copy Share Image
The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up… — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Copy Share Image
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“The harmony of two bodies expressed in this single touch, bridging their differences and bending their moral reserve, was as powerful and… — Peter Nadas Copy Share Image
Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification. — Squidward Tentacles Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be. — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before. — Jesse Metcalfe Copy Share Image
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life. — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
I mean, I get all the gratification in the world from doing a show. It's a great feeling. — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
“Our challenge is making a long-term investment in our children in an instant-gratification society.” — Ted Agon Copy Share Image
