Satisfactions Quotes

52 quotes by 49 authors

There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace. The… — Sigurd F. Olson
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is… — Dana Spiotta
The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man. — Jeff Cooper
One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well. — Hortense Odlum
Invest in the "process" rather than the product. Process living neutralizes the depleting and impoverishing effects of chronically living in anticipation. Even when impossible goals… — Theodore Isaac Rubin
Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. Itâ€™s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and… — Judith Butler
Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if… — Zygmunt Bauman
The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the… — Thomas Berry
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships. — Westbrook Pegler
One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to… — Dwight Gooden
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions. — Todd Gitlin
There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of… — Curtis W. Fentress
One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well. — Norman Vincent Peale
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people. — Don Herold
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to… — Richard Russo
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it… — Sigmund Freud
Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb… — Jon Krakauer
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up… — Herbert Marcuse

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