#satisfy

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#god #man #others #people #please

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#fun #listen #sad #sad songs #satisfying

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#awfully #cry #going #honey #howl

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#clashes #culture #desires #ego #everyone

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#asked #belief #drifting #except #fifties

If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled. ↗

— Andres Iniesta

#more #sacrifice #satisfying #struggled #win

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

— Gavin Bryars

#composer #find #i #i am #name

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

— Samuel Butler

#devise #irish #nation #now #old

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. ↗

— Vincent Canby

#between #connections #curiosity #else #exploits

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#does #guide #organized #politics #religion