Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man. — Learned Hand 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
We want instant gratification,but God does not work that way, we got to wait & be patient. — Pastor Darryl L Godlock Copy Share Image
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Academia does not provide many opportunities for immediate gratification. You work for two years on a project, it takes two more years… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
“THEY pass’d the Time of their Journey in as much Happiness as the most luxurious Gratification of wild Desires could make them;… — Eliza Haywood 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
“In this day and age, there is a limitless plethora of readily available distractions just waiting to take your mind off what… — James Frankton Copy Share Image
The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in… — Brian Reynolds Myers 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
The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act… — Patricia Duncker 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
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
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
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
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Rewards of the Self Finally, there are the variable rewards we seek for a more personal form of gratification. We are driven… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year. — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place. — Brian O'Driscoll Copy Share Image
Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away. — Jim Flaherty Copy Share Image
“If you are not Grateful, you are definitely going to be a great fool.” — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Well, I've worked out for years. For a long time it was my only sense of gratification. — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification — William Blake Copy Share Image
“The Gratification of life is a hand to hold;while walking over wobbling slippery rocks in life” — Pooja Bhatia Copy Share Image
“The greatest gratification I make while writing is that unique possibility of living my own adventures” — MBarreto Condado Copy Share Image
Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image