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
People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of… — John Fire Lame Deer Copy Share Image
The budgets are much higher now, it costs more to make a movie and the kids that go to see them are… — Jerry Weintraub Copy Share Image
“He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I think television is moving more into movies, particularly with serialization and almost cinematic proportions and expectations. A show like 'Game of… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Just do the things you want to do, make the kind of… — Edward Ruscha 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
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
To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies. — Ambrose Bierce 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
But all provisions that He (God) has made for the gratification of our senses…are much inferior to the provision, the wonderful provision… — John Adams Copy Share Image
....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification,… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
