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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.
The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good or if it's bad.
Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.
I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
You are sexually pure when no sexual gratification comes from anyone or anything but your wife.
Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.
The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United States in complex, puke-inducing holding patterns.
In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.
I got into this business because you can get gratification from it the moment you set foot onstage.
Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.
Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.
Justice too long delayed is justice denied.
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.
The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential.
I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.
Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification.
Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.
All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better enjoy. That's what makes it great.
Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.
I never signed 'NH 10' officially. I was supposed to do it. Then it got delayed. Then I moved on to other films like 'Kai Po Che' and 'Shahid.'
The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.
My second film 'Johnny Gaddar' got delayed because of financial reasons. The film was taken over by another production house and in the process we lost a year.
Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff
I mean, I get all the gratification in the world from doing a show. It's a great feeling.
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.
Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.
The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.
We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.
One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.
Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort
Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.
Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.
