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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun. -- Samuel Richardson
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. -- Mark Twain
It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. -- Samuel Johnson
There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be. -- Colleen McCullough
The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word. -- Harold Pinter
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. -- Samuel Johnson
I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text. -- Maggie Gyllenhaal
I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one. -- Barry Schwartz
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another! -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special. -- Macaulay Culkin
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. -- Oscar Wilde
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. -- C. S. Lewis
For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. -- Abraham Lincoln
Passion is always suffering, even when gratified. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires. -- James Hutton
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed. -- Richard Whately
The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified. -- Cathleen Schine
Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others. -- Jonathan Winters
Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there. -- William Blake
The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women. -- Samuel Johnson
She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes." -- Anne Bronte
I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of. -- Jane Austen
What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire. -- William Blake
If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past. -- E. M. Forster
Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified. -- Carl Van Vechten
I am very gratified to have lived to see a revolution in the field of work/life: Everyone - men and women, employees and employers - now has this issue top of mind. -- Stewart D. Friedman
But this anti-war protest, is far from a success; it is just a placebo for the people. These peacemakers feel so satisfied, gratified; gay-gallant-and-gleeful. But they do not achieve anything acceptable, perceptible; or peaceful. -- Joss Sheldon

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