#ratified

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another! ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#always #another #anything #damned #foolish

Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#became #constitution #december #each #honored

I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#about #also #analyze #anything #articulate

I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#gratified #happy #i #long #media

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#different #different things #each #expense #gratified

There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#gratified #hell #horny #lot #out

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#find #gratified #i #really #room

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#gratified #indifference #love #satisfied

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#disappointed #either #expect #expectation #expecting

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#another #difficulties #forming #gratified #higher