Satisfactory Quotes

164 quotes by 151 authors

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. — James A. Garfield
I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums. — Edward Hopper
A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in… — James Larkin
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past. — Bill Nye
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that… — Jane Austen
At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant. — Aldo Leopold
Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are… — C.S. Lewis
I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially… — Norman Mailer
That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I… — Jerome K. Jerome
The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic… — Anne Frank
The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to… — Isaac Asimov
All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons,… — Dorothy L. Sayers
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth. — Anthony Burgess
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character… — Lin Yutang
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion,… — Ezra Pound
And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book… — John Kennedy Toole
For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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