Selfsatisfied Quotes & Sayings

Sitti knows that modern-day wars are fought over simple things, like the length and fit of a shirt - the shorter the sleeve, the greater the misfortune. Many times she wants to ask the one-hundred-year-old fig tree in the village center what it is like to be born from nothing and grow into something. She wants to know what it is like to bear fruit every year and not expect anything in return. She wants to know what it is like to be respected for what she could give - no more and no less. — Sadiqua Hamdan

In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting. — Steven Weinberg

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her. — Isaac Asimov

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world. — Tom Stoppard

What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree. — Newton N. Minow

Why do you insist upon destroying yourself? — Charles Bukowski

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul ... — Mao Zedong

Responsibility becomes stressful only when you don't feel strong enough to handle it. — Allen Carr

Money won't make you happy ... but everybody wants to find out for themselves. — Zig Ziglar

This was just not fair. To get a taste of freedom, only to instantly be punished for it. — Sarah Dessen

Man's primary will to know struggles against the selfsatisfied formalism of empty learning which drugs man into
the illusory calm of fulfillment. It fights against empty intellectualism,
against nihilism which has ceased wanting anything and thus has ceased wanting to know. It battles against mediocrity which never takes stock of itself and which confuses knowledge with the mere learning of facts and <> The only satisfaction which man derives from a radical commitment to knowledge is the hope of advancing the frontier of knowledge to a point beyond which he cannot advance except by transcending knowledge itself. — Karl Jaspers