#satisfy

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#effort #endless #ever #exhausts #greed

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #him

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #great

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#always #exciting #last #life #only

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#beautiful #benign #beyond #brilliant #fame

To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying. ↗

— John McEnroe

#involved #satisfying #senior #states #tournament

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#awakens #cannot #fact #hunger #insatiable

Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#being #better #decisions #fun #glamorous

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish in one evening, and you can tell if people have enjoyed it or not. That's great to do every night to go in front of a full room of people and tell the story. There's nothing like that really. ↗

— Jonny Lee Miller

#deliver #enjoyed #evening #every #every night

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. ↗

— Edward G. Robinson

#collector #father #friends #lungs #satisfy