Satisfied Quotes

1275 Satisfied quotes by 962 unique authors

I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does… — Charlotte Bronte
It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and… — John Bingham
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing… — Octavio Paz
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
If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied.… — John Piper
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls… — Jonathan Edwards
He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her. — W. Somerset Maugham
You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that. — Charles Baxter
When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less… — W. Somerset Maugham
He gave me heaven and earth, and assumed I'd be satisfied; Actually I was too embarrassed to argue. The spiritual seekers are tired, two or… — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going… — William Goldman
For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in… — John Steinbeck
Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning… — Flannery O'Connor
When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold… — Walt Whitman
And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. — Neil Gaiman
The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of… — Julio Cortazar
I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing. — Walt Whitman
So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however… — Marcus Aurelius
The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you… — John Piper
Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around… — Paulo Coelho
Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of… — Gaston Leroux
Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning… — Takehiko Inoue
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I… — Ralph Ellison
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock
I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which… — Thomas Jefferson

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