Quotes About Satisfaction

I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad.

The world is not enough.

Few, if any, of the world's problems can be solved with a mere twenty minutes of attention, and yet here, in the complex sociopolitical landscape of the bedroom, we have an opportunity to create bilateral satisfaction. When put that way, in the context of sexual peace and equality, is twenty minutes of focused attention, applied appropriately, really too much to ask, especially if it can save your sex life?

Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy.

How would that constitute an ending? What service or hope or satisfaction could a reader draw from such an account? Who would want to believe that, except in the service of the bleakest realism? I couldn't do it to them. I'm too old, too frightened, too much in love with the shred of the life I have remaining. I no longer possess the lavage of my pessimism. When I am dead, and the Marshall's are dead, we will exist as my inventions.

Other women cloy/The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry/Where most she satisfies.

Perowne sometimes wonders if, in his youth, he could ever have guessed that he would one day father a blues musician... But is there a lifetime's satisfaction in twelve bars of three obvious chords? Perhaps it's one of those cases of a microcosm giving you the whole world... as Daisy says, like a Jane Austen novel... There's nothing in his own life that contains this inventiveness, this style of being free.

She was on course now, and had found satisfaction on other levels; writing stories not only involved secrecy, it also gave her all the pleadures of miniaturization. A world could be made in five pages and one that was more pleasing than a model farm. The childhood of a spoiled prince could be framed with half a page a moonlit dash through sleepy villages was one rhythmically emphatic sentence, falling in love could be achieved in a single word - a glance.

How would that constitute an ending? What serve or hope or satisfaction could a reader draw from such an account? Who would want to believe that, except in the service of the bleakest realism? I couldn't do it to them. I'm too old, too frightened, too much in love with the shred of the life I have remaining. I no longer possess the leverage of my pessimism. When I am dead, and the Marshalls are dead, we will exist as my inventions.

He said 'woman' in the same way I'd say 'Mmmm, yummy chocolate.

Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don't have to do it, but it's here if you choose to come back to it.

Food. This was heaven. "Hey, baby," Hugh said. Heaven just got canceled.

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

Being called up by the Azzurri is a great source of satisfaction. There are so many strong young players with great personalities, and for me, it's nice to be here, even if I'm playing it by ear.

I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

When I was younger, I would eat everything.

I think if you were to ask me when I was much younger what my definition of the good life was, I think it would have sounded a lot like what most people would say - a life with all the things you want and everything you think you need to make you happy, and these sorts of things.

Yes, things have turned out to be quite different from what I had in mind as a youngster. But I'm enjoying every minute of my career as an actor.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.

When you grow up, if you eat soup and you fill your body, you don't need to eat anything else. Basically, it can be your diet. A soup diet.