Dissatisfied Quotes
141 Dissatisfied quotes by 123 unique authors
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Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.
— Saadi
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Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like…
— Clarence Day
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Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If…
— Thomas Merton
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I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer.…
— Christopher Nolan
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I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry…
— Edgar Wilson Nye
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The heart of a man can never be satisfied with the things of this world. It is always empty, and hungry, and thirsty, and dissatisfied,…
— J C Ryle
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No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect
— Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres
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When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.
— Will Rogers
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Be dissatisfied enough to improve, but satisfied enough to be happy.
— J. Harold Smith
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He who flies from his master is a runaway; but the law is master, and he who breaks the law is a runaway. And he…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.
— John Lennon
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Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we…
— Eric Hoffer
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Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.
— Annie Lennox
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There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more…
— Jane Austen
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I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and…
— Walt Whitman
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A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out…
— William Morris
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Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but…
— Walter Benjamin
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For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present…
— Karl Rahner
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the…
— John Stuart Mill
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In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.
— Nick Harkaway
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We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
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And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.
— Paulo Coelho
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it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the…
— Leo Tolstoy
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