#satisfy

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#lies #peace #satisfying

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed. ↗

— Mwai Kibaki

#greed #leadership #lives #opportunity #others

There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy. ↗

— Jonathan Klein

#certain #either #element #extremists #going

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors. ↗

— Hans Kung

#certain #certainly #children #could #impulses

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#delusion #far #grasp #however #persist

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#delusion #far #grasp #however #me

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#anything #deliver #desires #i #i am

Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#another #closing #door #even #feeling

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