"He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing ."

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Source : Epicurus (1993). “The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments”

Epicurus

#Littles Quotes #Satisfied Quotes

“Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.”
“One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.”
“If they (the young pilots) are on land, they would be bombed down, and if they are in the air, they would be shot down. That's sad...Too sad...To let the young men die beautifully, that's what Tokko is. To give beautiful death, that's called sympathy.”
“When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.”
“A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.”

Source : Catherine Crowe (1850). “The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers”, p.205
“Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.”
“Then he reached up and tore my shirtfront open. "Not much to see, is there?" I said, struggling to talk with a crushed windpipe. "I know, I know, they can fix things like that these days. Call me a feminist, but I think a woman's worth should be defined not by the size of her bust, but - " I rammed my fist up into his Adam's apple. He grunted and stumbled back. "- by the strength of her right hook.”
“How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in this world and a compassionate entry into the next. After failure and defeat, a concentration upon certain beauties, though forever lost and unretrievable, can lift the wounded past roundedness and the dying past dying, protecting them with an image, still and bright, that will ride with them on their long ride, never to fade and never to retreat.”

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