Quotes About Dissatisfaction

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Satisfactions are fulfillment of the heart. Dissatisfactions are the rumblings of the mind.

Everything in life has let me down.

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self

Sarabeth wondered at the sheer energy it must have taken for her mother to be dissatisfied by so much. Her psyche was like a huge grid of mousetraps, set to spring at the lightest touch. There were traps for Sarabeth's father,traps for Sarabeth. The biggest trap, though, was the grid itself,the trap of being Lorelei.

She resents the chipped paint of the table and the dingy closet they call a dressing room. (Dark City Lights)

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

Poverty leads to protests.

I can't exactly describe how I feel but it's not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a wind-shaken poplar.

They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale - and yet they weren't unhappy either.

Ah, che errore doloroso e crasso quel distinguo che i rivoluzionari fanno tra borghesia e popolo, tra aristocrazia e popolo o tra governanti e governati. La vera distinzione risiede tra adattati e disadattati: il resto e letteratura e per di più cattiva letteratura. 176 [1929]

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence.

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

Dissatisfaction began to grow so great in Parker that there was no containing it outside of a tattoo. It had to be his back. There was no help for it. A dim half-formed inspiration began to work in his mind. He visualized having a tattoo put there that Sarah Ruth would not be able to resist—a religious subject.

He seemed to be a young man but he had a look of composed dissatisfaction as if he understood life thoroughly.

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they're treated as public nuisances and evicted.

MRS. BESSEMER: Yes, sir? PUDOVKIN: If this is chicken consommé, so is Lake Louise. And you can tell the manager I said so. MRS. BESSEMER: But you're the manager, Mr. Pudovkin. PUDOVKIN (to the others): Well, I've heard all the excuses, but that's a new one.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.