Unsatisfactory Quotes

46 quotes by 42 authors

But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to… — Neil Postman
... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of… — Iris Murdoch
PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that… — Ambrose Bierce
Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own… — Thomas Browne
The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory. — Mark E. Smith
Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married to artistic banality-or,… — John Walford
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream. — Dalai Lama
Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the… — Walter Cronkite
If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying… — Tony Judt
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. — Tennessee Williams
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. — Albert Einstein
Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding… — Flann O'Brien
For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our… — Richard John Neuhaus
Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this… — Agatha Christie
Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and… — E. M. Forster
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you… — Vernon Howard
...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind. — Aldous Huxley

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