#satisfied

What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest? ↗

— Eli Wallach

#around #ever #fly #grab #i

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

#day #else #false #got #illness

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#criticism #easily #even #how #people

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#become #better #denied #dissatisfied #forward

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#dissatisfied #does #feel #goad #hard

I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left. ↗

— John Wooden

#believe #bend #coaching #colleges #down

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received. ↗

— John Grierson

#education #effect #given #less #make

You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#actor #awful #career #choice #choose

The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision. ↗

— Rafik Hariri

#change #government #lebanese #new #new government

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#been #come #countries #foreign #foreign countries