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Quotes About Satisfaction

El pan comido es pronto olvidado.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Las aves domésticas se distinguen de las de corral en que las guardamos en jaulas exclusivamente para satisfacer el placer estético. El nuestro, claro. Del placer que sienten las aves condenadas a ver a sus dueños, no sé nada.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak.
~ Woody Allen
Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
~ Woody Allen
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
~ Woody Allen
The most expensive sex is free sex
~ Woody Allen
Yeah, that's what the present is. It's a little unsatisfying because life's a little unsatisfying.
~ Woody Allen
Analysis] has helped, but not as much as I've wanted. Years ago, I remember, I brought my clarinet into the repair shop, and the guy took two weeks and put new pads on and everything. When I went in, I said, 'Thank you, but am I going to sound better?' And he said, 'Yes, you will sound better, but not as much as you'd like to.
~ Woody Allen
Wieczna pustka jest w porz?dku, je?li jest si? odpowiednio ubranym.
~ Woody Allen
If I died right now I couldn't complain—and neither would a lot of other people.
~ Woody Allen
The hundred flavors of rare dainties     Are no more once you've eaten your fill.     You may accumulate private savings     But not in your stomach private hoardings!
~ Wu Cheng'en
There is no water like the water out of your own well.
~ Wu Cheng'en
A bird in the hand is worth three in the Bush.
~ Wu Cheng'en
Un día me dijeron que la felicidad consiste en no querer moverse de donde una está.
~ Xavier Velasco
but I have always thought that to need nothing is divine, and to need as little as possible is the nearest approach to the divine; and that what is divine is best, and what is nearest to the divine is the next best.
~ Xenophon
What good have you to offer, or what do you know of pleasure, you who refuse to do anything with a view of either? You don't even wait for the desire for what is pleasant: you stuff yourself with everything before you want it, eating before you are hungry and drinking before you are thirsty.
~ Xenophon
Being able to see the end of anything gave him a tremendous sense of relief. As a child he had assumed the goal of medicine was to keep bodies alive forever; he had never considered the pain of not being able to die.
~ Y?ko Tawada
There's no boot. No boot? No. That makes me sad. I ate it. You ate the boot? Yes. Was it good? No. Were the cigarettes good? No. I couldn't finish them. I couldn't finish the boot.
~ Yann Martel
This story has a happy ending.
~ Yann Martel
Cái quan tr?ng ? ??i là ph?i k?t thúc m?i th? cho ch?n chu. Có th? ta má»›i yên tâm mà Ä'i ???c. N?u không thì lúc nào trong ta cÅ©ng ??y nh?ng l?i mu?n nói mà ch?ng bao gi? nói, và lòng ta s? n?ng trÄ©u ân h?n.
~ Yann Martel
It was frightening, the extent to which a full belly made for a good mood.
~ Yann Martel
A satisfação depende de pegar o que se quer, em vez de esperar pelo que é justo receber. Tudo isto entra na linguagem cotidiana que liga sexo à agressão...
~ Christopher Lasch
In a simpler time, advertising merely called attention to the product and extolled its advantages. Now it manufactures a product of its own: the consumer, perpetually unsatisfied, restless, anxious, and bored. Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment.
~ Christopher Lasch
The world does not exist merely to satisfy our own desires; it is a world in which we can find pleasure and meaning, once we understand that others too have a right to these goods.
~ Christopher Lasch