Satisfaction Quotes

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. (Clarence Darrow)

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

William F. Buckley

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell

I would rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I am 45.

Mick Jagger

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

E. O. Wilson

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

Lawrence Durrell

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

Katherine Mansfield

I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.

Vincent Gallo

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Michel de Montaigne

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction. (Roman Polański)

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Erich Fromm

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.

Walter Russell Mead

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

Anna Sui

Gallantry to women the sure road to their favor is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

William Hazlitt

I can't get no satisfaction.

Mick Jagger

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

Freeman Dyson

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

Karel Čapek

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the worlds need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need this life is hell.

W. E. B. Du Bois

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take. (Christopher Reeve)

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no greater calling than to serve your brother. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

Walter Reuther

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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