The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
A building can be designed to satisfy by the month with the regularity of the provider. Or it can give satisfaction in a very different way, by the moment, the fraction of a second, with the thrill of a lover
The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth
I'm directing the Sky show. I'm not going to be in it. I'm just writing and directing it. So that'll satisfy that part of my brain.
Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone.
We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological need to satisfy reasonable expectations.
It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.
God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice.
First and foremost, I make music to satisfy my creative urges, but at the same time, I know my fans are waiting, so they're the ones that push me to keep going.
You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.
We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.
Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will help us satisfy them.
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
In order to satisfy the vital being, it must be offered some activity, and at the same time the mind should be slowly made to take interest in yoga.
Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.
Understand that VCs are simply a sophisticated form of financial investors who, in turn, need to satisfy their own investors.
I've always looked upon research as an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. But the other side of the coin is one must not be so caught up in it that one never gets the book written.
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.
I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite far to satisfy my curiosity.
Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent.
There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do.
This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.
He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.
Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
I'm here to satisfy the people. I'm here to teach. I'm here to motivate. I'm here to give people the adrenaline, the push and support.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.
A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.
There's only so much you can do as far as individual skill work and conditioning on a bike. But you can't simulate playing in an actual game. And it can't satisfy the competitive itch you feel as a player.
Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.
Only a relationship with Christ can satisfy our hearts. Without Him we have nothing. With Him we have all things to enjoy.
I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
Girls are impossible to satisfy." "Not every girl." Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.
I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is deep and I am complicated.
The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.
I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.
I will do films that will satisfy me and surprise the audience into saying, 'look where Rajpal started from and where has he reached today.'
Satisfy the deep subconscious needs of your customers - to feel important, to feel valued, respected and worthwhile
If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.
Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.
My biggest musical dream is to keep playing all my life. There's nothing bigger than that and that's very challenging because you have to satisfy yourself at every stage.
I'm not in the business of satisfying everybody. I'm in the business of trying to satisfy the people who elected me governor.
Go ahead and have the Kit Kat at the movies. If you don't satisfy an urge sometimes, you often substitute less-satisfying things and end up eating more.
Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.
I do me, and me is my hits. I'm out there really to satisfy the people.
Football is a worldwide business consortium and to satisfy that best you need to find the best players.
How can you satisfy your hunger while your neighbor is spending the night hungry?
It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.
When I meet a new person, I don’t see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another.
Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.
A game's concept is one of its most important assets. I feel that we must aim to satisfy both beginners and experts, and that hasn't changed since I was making 'Kirby' games.
By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.
I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
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