Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred. — Pliny the Elder 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
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Among the few I have indicated, is there no dynamic man of action, the rebel who will help determine the aspect of… — Piet Zwart 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
Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification. — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
I love the instant gratification of theatre - it reminds me of why I enjoy filming in the first place. — Steffan Rhodri Copy Share Image
Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their… — H. David Burton Copy Share Image
Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick… — Jean Kilbourne Copy Share Image
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that… — Raymond Arroyo Copy Share Image
Watching a movie with an audience is so exciting. For me, coming from TV, you finish an episode and then it airs,… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
