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Quotes About Satisfaction

I don't know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I'd burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help.
~ Ray Bradbury
The word on the jar was RELISH. And he was glad he had decided to live.
~ Ray Bradbury
I don't know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively KNEW was gone was the books I'd burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help.
~ Ray Bradbury
You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can't have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, what do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it?
~ Ray Bradbury
I don't know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy
~ Ray Bradbury
How did you get shaken up? What knocked the torch out of your hands?' 'I don't know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy.
~ Ray Bradbury
As long as everyone has ten thousand insurance everyone's happy.
~ Ray Bradbury
Temos tudo de que precisamos para sermos felizes, mas não somos felizes. Alguma coisa está faltando.
~ Ray Bradbury
Pero cómo renunciar a lo que hemos deseado tanto aunque se quede sólo un día y desaparezca, haciendo el vacío más vacío, y las noches oscuras más oscuras y las noches lluviosas más húmedas. Quitarnos esto sería como quitarnos la comida de la boca.
~ Ray Bradbury
Because I wanted to do, I did. Where I wanted to feed, I fed.
~ Ray Bradbury
That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.
~ Ray Bradbury
Chúng ta có t?t c? nh?ng gì chúng ta c?n ?? h?nh phúc, nhưng chúng ta không h?nh phúc
~ Ray Bradbury
Mutlu olmam?z için gerekli her ÅŸeye sahibiz, ama mutlu deÄŸiliz. Bir ÅŸey eksik.
~ Ray Bradbury
Ithought that's why we bought this house, so we wouldn't have to do anything? That's just it. I feel like I don't belong here. (p.13)
~ Ray Bradbury
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
~ Ray Bradbury
But how are we to give up the very thing we've wanted, no matter if it stays only a day and is gone, making the emptiness emptier, the dark nights darker, the rainy nights wetter? You might as well force the food from our mouths as take this one from us.
~ Ray Bradbury
What do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.
~ Ray Bradbury
Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can, nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.
~ Ray Bradbury
I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? that's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.
~ Ray Bradbury
Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please This also became Conrad's epitaph.
~ Joseph Conrad
It is a great doctor for sore hearts and sore heads, too, your ship's routine, which I have seen soothe—at least for a time—the most turbulent of spirits. There is health in it, and peace, and satisfaction of the accomplished round; for each day of the ship's life seems to close a circle within the wide ring of the sea horizon. It borrows a certain dignity of sameness from the majestic monotony of the sea. He who loves the sea loves also the ship's routine.
~ Joseph Conrad
outwards, resembled an idol. The Director, satisfied
~ Joseph Conrad
man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity.
~ Joseph Conrad
In her view the aim of every religion was merely to preserve certain proprieties while affording satisfaction to human desires
~ Joseph Conrad