#satisfy

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#certainly #charge #experience #head #i

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#everything #instead #satisfying #spirit #tortures

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

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#back #i #i think #looking #looking back

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#books #experiences #followed #generation #greatest

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

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

— Joyce Cary

#does #guide #organized #politics #religion

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#bear #because #been #bringing #companies