Quotes About Gratification

There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs. If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all....

It's truly an honor to get to write Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman and all those great people, but when you can take something that's not well thought of and make it something that people do think highly of, that's much more gratifying, I think.

'Use Me' is a wonderfully satisfying book.

When you see validation for a life's work and dedication, it's a beautiful day.

I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.

Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun

A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed to works of science, by proposing for its immediate object pleasure, not truth; and from all other species (having this object in common with it) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the whole, as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part.

En waarom zou je geen appel van de boom mogen plukken en opeten om het simpele plezier van de smaak en niet omdat je van plan bent de beste appeltaart te bakken die iemand ooit heeft gemaakt?

wine! pizza! pasta!' V.I.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself.

The promised reward of heaven is too far away, men must have some pleasure now. God will forgive them.

As a society, we're so focused on instantaneous gratification that our short-term solutions often become long-term problems.

Eating is an occupation from which I think a man takes the more pleasure the less he considers it. A rural labourer who sits on the ditch-side with his bread and cheese and an onion has more enjoyment out of it than any Lucullus

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

The many, the most vulgar, would seem to conceive the good and happiness as pleasure, and hence they also like the life of gratification. Here they appear completely slavish, since the life they decide on is a life for grazing animals.

And the avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end; for it is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

People are never satisfied. They crave too much then complain too much.

The substitute gratifications, such as art offers, are illusions in contrast to reality, but none the less satisfying to the mind on that account, thanks to the place which phantasy has reserved for herself in mental life.

I know I please where I must please the most.

Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.

Life is too short to be on a diet.