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Quotes About Unsatisfied

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.
~ Anthony Bourdain
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
~ Wallace Stevens
The mind can never be satisfied.
~ Wallace Stevens
Mr. Harconan was a man of extraordinary capabilities. Such men frequently require extraordinary women to match them because they rapidly become bored and unsatisfied with the frivolous or the commonplace.
~ James H. Cobb
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
~ Nan Fairbrother
At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I want to be that Tantalus, unfed / forever, that my want's agony declare / that such as we want has nothing to say to the world; / if the world wants, it nothing wants for us. / Let me be unsatisfied.
~ William Bronk
The Magi" Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depths of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering side by side, And all their eyes still fixed, hoping to find once more, Being by Calvary's turbulence unsatisfied, The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.
~ William Butler Yeats
I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
~ Billy Wilder
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Boulton's strategic plan was on schedule. He had discerned an opportunity; had exploited it;* and was soon enough unsatisfied by it. By the end of 1782, he had identified the next conquest for the steam engine, an arena whose potential dwarfed that of the mining industry: wheels.
~ William Rosen
Every good game leaves the player eager to start again, unsatisfied or inspired by their opponent , there is a hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time – my regret is that there is not enough time to play Paul F. Meekin again and win back my watch."
~ Jay Whitehead
Some people, no matter what you give them, still want the moon. The bread, the salt, white meat and dark meat, still hungry. The marriage bed and the cradle, still empty arms. You give them land, their own earth under their feet, still they take to the roads. And water: dig them the deepest, still it's not deep enough to drink the moon from.
~ Denise Levertov
I made a new friend in the summer of 1999 who wore a rubber band around her wrist with Paul Westerberg's name written on it. Her favorite song was "Unsatisfied" and she gave the song back to me, without knowing she was doing it, and soon I loved it as much as ever.
~ Rob Sheffield
Deseo antiguo, deseo reciente, ambos sin saciar y que seguramente no saldrían del ámbito de la obsesión.
~ Didier Decoin
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
~ Erich Fromm
His sleeplessness seemed to confine him to a ghetto, in which the forsaken, the forgotten, and the unsatisfied were his fellow inmates. It seemed to him that women in these situations could not possibly experience the same degree of loneliness.
~ Anita Brookner
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
~ Sigmund Freud
Curiosity unsatisfied tended to create its own answers. Guesses were often more dangerous than facts.
~ Frank Herbert
I realized she wanted many things at the same time, and that kept her in a permanent state of dissatisfaction.
~ Elena Ferrante
As we talked I realized she wanted many things at the same time, and that kept her in a permanent state of dissatisfaction.
~ Elena Ferrante
Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice between dignity and unsatisfied curiosity was less clear to me as a cruel decision that had to be made.
~ Anthony Powell
I am a kind of person who never gets satisfied.
~ Anupama Parameswaran
Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche