Satisfying Quotes

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.

I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views.

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

I think that Bill and Hillary Clinton have a very special relationship and I think in very many ways to them it's a very satisfying relationship. I think that it's a mutual respect with a goal of power to achieve, maintain power. And I think that they have been good partners in that.

I believe so much in these products, and it's really satisfying when you believe in something.

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.

The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

I'm always nervous taking on a period role because it's difficult to research - you can't observe it, go out and see it. But it's satisfying because eventually you think, 'I got there.'

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.