Quotes 21 till 40 of 46.
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I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
Works (1912) -
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
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I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Mere Christianity (1952) -
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
Mere Christianity -
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston
American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960) -
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws
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People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
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Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
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Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
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The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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