Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
“If you are not Grateful, you are definitely going to be a great fool.” — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I hadn't had that much time practicing behind the drum kit. I've spent an inordinate amount of time listening to and programming… — RJD2 Copy Share Image
There's a gratification that comes from performing in front of a live audience, and you can't replicate that with anything else. In… — Trace Adkins Copy Share Image
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix. — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work. — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think that can also be the downfall at the same time in what's really difficult about being kind of in the… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I think human beings have an innate desire to help each other. And whether you're in medicine or anything else, if you… — Michael E. DeBakey Copy Share Image
