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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy. -- Man Ray
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people. -- Don Herold
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships. -- Westbrook Pegler
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions. -- Todd Gitlin
One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well. -- Hortense Odlum
One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you. -- Dwight Gooden
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake. -- Dana Spiotta
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. -- Dennis Gabor
Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable. -- Zygmunt Bauman
I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold. -- Howard Lindsay
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. -- Richard Russo
Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success. -- Jeffrey Toobin
Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions. -- B. F. Skinner
One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Peace is a resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war . -- Judith Butler
One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well. -- Norman Vincent Peale
God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions. -- Martin Luther
The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards -- Albert Bandura
At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this? -- Florence Nightingale
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. -- Billy Joel
The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man. -- Jeff Cooper
Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions. -- R. J. Reynolds
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory -- John Steinbeck
The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized. -- Rex Stout
Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness. -- Therese of Lisieux
The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it. -- Kay Ryan
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults -- Curtis W. Fentress
I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it? -- J. B. Priestley
What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions. -- Rumi
Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that contribute to the welfare of the community. -- Corliss Lamont
Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions. -- Alan Keyes
From the driver's standpoint I had the same horrors, the same satisfactions, the same everything. The speed is relative. It's faster and things are happening quicker, but you have the equipment to handle it. -- Mario Andretti
All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own. -- Herbert Marcuse
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love. -- Sri Yukteswar Giri
Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood, of seeing oneself in a new perspective, and of understanding more about life. -- Ellen Galinsky

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