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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. -- Walt Whitman
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. -- Jean de La Fontaine
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. -- Walt Whitman
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. -- Virginia Woolf
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. -- Oliver Cromwell
If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification. -- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. -- Bette Davis
I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction. -- Lydia Lunch
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. -- Charles Baudelaire
Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art. -- Adolf Loos
Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to make money. It satisfies our selfish interest but not our collective interest. -- Muhammad Yunus
Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony. -- Cat Stevens
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented. -- Arnold Palmer
People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.' -- Alan Moore
I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally. -- Ken Burns
What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly. -- Salmon P. Chase
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. -- George Santayana
I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star. -- Carice van Houten
There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning. -- J. C. Ryle
People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it. -- Dan Harmon
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort. -- Adolf Loos
A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now. -- Jane Campion
The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride. -- Donny Osmond
Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of total moral rigor is not necessarily the way to go. It's the path for very few people. Most people need to come up with some kind of middle ground that satisfies their practical, moral, and philosophical esthetic needs. -- John Patrick Shanley
Justice satisfies everybody. -- Maria Edgeworth
Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies. -- Edmund Burke
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies. -- Emile M. Cioran
Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal. -- John Maynard Keynes
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. -- Alan Watts
But she makes hungry Where she most satisfies... -- William Shakespeare
Create content that satisfies your uber goals and desires. -- Tom Webster
The only thing that satisfies the soul is passionate life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Egg nog. Because nothing satisfies like a cold glass of eggs. -- Dana Gould
I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval. -- William Shatner
Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement. -- Robert Genn
... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal. -- Emma Goldman
This perfect, eternal, Holy exchangeIs worship that satisfies both heaven and earth: -- Amy Layne Litzelman
We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul. -- William Osler
Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony -- Cat Stevens
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido. -- Peter Shepherd
I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies. -- Abigail Spencer
Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody. -- Marshall Fritz
You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies. -- John Galsworthy
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. -- Bill Watterson
I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person. -- Zora Neale Hurston
We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent -- J. I. Packer
Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me. -- Richard Proenneke
No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last. -- Abel Stevens
The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever. -- Russell M. Nelson
If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world. -- C. S. Lewis
There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me. -- Arundhati Roy
The discovery of an important need is almost as important as the invention which satisfies this need. -- Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something. -- Michael Pollan
Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America. -- Ernest Hemingway
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. -- B. C. Forbes
Do I believe in ghosts?...I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me. -- M. R. James
I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me. -- Harold Prince
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. -- B. C. Forbes
A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it mustï»¿ be the only solution. -- Raymond E. Feist
What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too. -- Edward Young
Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer. -- Ace Antonio Hall
Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots. -- Henry David Thoreau
I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me. -- Willem Dafoe
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate. -- Henry David Thoreau
It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul. -- Willie Dixon
In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands. -- Simon Heffer
When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind. -- Beah Richards
Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you. -- David Crosby
Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him. -- Jean de La Fontaine
I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification. -- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by. -- Bruno Grandi
And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. -- Bette Davis
I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events. -- Karen Traviss
Passion is the fire, enthusiasm and courage that an individual feels when she is doing something she loves while accomplishing worthy ends, something that satisfies her deepest needs. -- Stephen Covey
I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge. -- Anwar Sadat
Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do what I please. -- Frederick the Great
I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please; nothing satisfies me... -- Claude Monet
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. -- James Thurber
I don't play the same guy a lot because there really isn't a guy for me. There really isn't a type you can put me in that satisfies everything. -- Stephen Spinella
Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies; -- William Shakespeare
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense. -- Geddy Lee
I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a large and increasing sale of his works. -- Frederick Locker-Lampson
The newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breatfeeding satisfies all three. -- Grantly Dick-Read
The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. -- Marge Piercy
In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people. -- Arthur W. Pink
A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three. -- Grantly Dick-Read
I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings. -- John Piper
To look around at what you have accomplished in a day gives a man a good feeling. Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completeness satisfies a man. -- Richard Proenneke
The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind. -- Charlotte Bronte
Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing. -- Chidi Okonkwo
I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing together objects that are in the world, manipulating them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things presented in the way I want to see them. -- Fred Wilson
Music is inspiration, soulful inspiration. It inspires the human in us. Music is manifestation, fruitful manifestation. It manifests the divine in us. Music is satisfaction, supreme satisfaction. It satisfies the Pilot Supreme in us. -- Sri Chinmoy
I don't myself need that role for God. My view is that creation itself, the universe itself, is the most wonderful thing deserving awe and respect. And that satisfies me as my substitute for God. -- Daniel Dennett
My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old. -- Epicurus

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