#ratify

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#buried #dead #fame #flowers #future

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories. ↗

— John Williams

#ephemeral #even #forgotten #gratifying #linger

What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#biology #each #efforts #enough #evolutionary

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game. ↗

— Bobby Hull

#better #expertise #gained #game #hockey

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#gratifying #man #mind #more #nothing

In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#fact #gratifying #in fact #me #method

What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that’s why he's number two. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#best #bizarre #competing #competition #competitor

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier. ↗

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

#directing #gratifying #happier #i #incredibly

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally. ↗

— David Simon

#flattering #gratifying #personally #told #very

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. ↗

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

#gratifying #i #incredibly #must #producing