#congenial

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#agencies #appetite #both #century #congenial

Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#benefit #certainly #chapter #congenial #cooperation

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#form #i #impressive #me #most

Before Van realized it, he was walking her back toward her stairs. He didn't stop kissing her, he wouldn't. The last thing he wanted was for her to change her mind. He managed to get her to the upstairs hallway before she pulled her mouth away. "What are you doing?" she panted out. "Taking you to your bed." "Forget it." And Van, if he were a crying man, would be sobbing. Until uptight Irene Conridge added, "The wall. Use the Wall. ↗

— Shelly Laurenston

#shelly-laurenston #change

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting. ↗

— Alan Brien

#been #being #collecting #congenial #debt

Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it. ↗

— Regina King

#men #miss-congeniality #men

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#being #cannot #character #comrade #congenial

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. ↗

— John Burroughs

#blessed #complete #congenial #forces #heart

I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen! ↗

— John Cameron

#also #anybody #collaborating #congenial #could

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#congenial #constitution #excellent #food #health