Quotes About Gratification

A slice of chocolate cake - priorities! - a scoop of chicken potpie, slice of chocolate cake, scoop of yam casserole, slice of chocolate cake, two scoops of mashed potatoes, a slice of chocolate cake, a scoop of buttery green beens, a slice of chocolate cake -

Art both expresses and gratifies the lowest part of the soul, and feeds and enlivens base emotions which ought to be left to wither.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

Greediness of getting more, deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

Who will present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

Truthfully, I don't like the binge-watching model. I think that if you give everybody everything all at once, there's very much a law of diminishing returns as far as their enjoyment of them.

I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much?

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

He was a true voluptuary, in his own modest way, with a voluptuary's genius for softening the world around him.

Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.

When he has become perfectly satisfied, he has no more cravings

Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.

Our need for instant gratification is the reason we're drawn to liars and hot air blowers.

What is the beauty of a thing if others do not take pleasure in it.

because it requires a combination of belief, a capacity for delayed gratification

I put on some bacon and eggs and celebrated with an extra quart of beer.

people who eat 3 meals a day throughout life have never really tasted Food...

She became, and her process of becoming was like most of ours: she developed a hatred for things that mystified or obstructed her; acquired virtues that were easy to maintain; assigned herself a role in the scheme of things; and harked back to simpler times for gratification.