It should be noted, however, that students' short-term satisfactions come at the cost of very substantial longer-term cost. ❋ Unknown (2009)
So if there's a political pragmatics of short-term satisfactions and a religious logic of the long-term good of humanity, what's an American of faith to do? ❋ Unknown (2008)
The pragmatist calls satisfactions indispensable for truth-building, but I have everywhere called them insufficient unless reality be also incidentally led to. ❋ William James (1876)
It will be a great satisfaction to me to show off in this way; and perhaps the largest of all the satisfactions will be the knowledge that every scoffer, of my sex, will secretly envy me and wish he dared to follow my lead. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
And if occasionally she feels a stranger to herself and wonders what happened to the freedom she once felt, or how she came to be the wife, mother, and doctor her neighbors know and trust -- if at times she feels as if her whole life is vanishing behind her as she's living it -- she need only look at her daughters or her husband, Daniel, to recall the satisfactions of family and community and marriage. ❋ Unknown (1999)
• To build peace and a self-existent bliss where there is only a stress of transitory satisfactions which is besieged by physical pain and emotional suffering ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2006)
One is left wondering what kind of satisfactions can be derived from such irresponsible attacks. ❋ Archer, Beth (1983)
And I was thinking, 'Yeah, you would', at one point apparently trying to scrape the smile off her lips as she described the satisfactions of a job that looks incredibly hard, and dangerous. ❋ Unknown (2011)
We're far from the satisfactions of a genre that at its coziest promises restoration of a safe-seeming status quo. ❋ Tom Nolan (2011)
And after such classification he avoided the things that hurt, the restrictions and restraints, in order to enjoy the satisfactions and the remunerations of life. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At the time of Darwin himself, his great defender Thomas Henry Huxley grandfather of the novelist Aldous Huxley set out consciously to make of Darwinism a phenomenon that not only substituted for religion but that gave the same emotional satisfactions of religion. ❋ Michael Ruse (2011)
The Fat Years has been dubbed a Chinese 1984, but is often concerned with the Brave New World question of how far material satisfactions alone can take a society for more details, see Jonathan Fenby's review of the English language edition, which was published earlier this year.... ❋ Jeffrey Wasserstrom (2011)
What were the particular satisfactions (or frustrations) of writing this novel? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Sitting in the IJ's brightly colored office in Northern Virginia, Mr. Mellor recalls the satisfactions and challenges since he founded the institute with Clint Bolick in 1991. ❋ Collin Levy (2012)
James Noone's serene, sparsely furnished sets suit the minimalist style of "At Home at the Zoo," an evening that offers satisfactions on a small and intermittent scale. ❋ Unknown (2011)
They described you as especially likely to achieve “both external and internal satisfactions.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
No. (I am extremely satisfied with my health plan, but I also agree that changes to the system would improve things for others) People tend to answer such generalized polls in ways that they think will include benefit to others, not necessarily in ways that reflect their personal satisfactions. ❋ Unknown (2009)
