Hard To Satisfy Quotes

#1. I'm easy to please and hard to satisfy.

Clint Hurdle

#2. The sheer size too, the excessive abundance, scale, and exaggeration of dreams could be an infantile characteristic. The most ardent wish of children is to grow up and get as big a share of everything as the grown-ups; they are hard to satisfy; do not know the meaning of 'enough.

Sigmund Freud

#3. God is easy to please, but hard to satisfy.

C.S. Lewis

#4. Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

Ann Richards

#5. For years, I had known that there is nothing idle about curiosity, despite the fact that the two words are often used in tandem. Curiosity fidgets, is hard to satisfy, looks for answers even before forming questions.

Maya Angelou

#6. She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.

Ann Brashares

#7. The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy,

Jack Spicer

#8. In my expectation that good fortune will lead inextricably to its reversal, I should note that I don't think I'm less deserving of happiness than anyone else; it is that in an unequal world, nobody deserves the privileges I enjoy.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#9. Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.

Caroline Knapp

#10. If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

Martin Freeman

#11. Again I resume the long
lesson: how small a thing
can be pleasing, how little
in this hard world it takes
to satisfy the mind
and bring it to its rest.

Wendell Berry

#12. Endings are really hard to do, and it's hard to do an ending where it's sort of collaborative with thousands and thousands of people, and to satisfy all those people is impossible.

Jennifer Hale

#13. I try to satisfy the desires that people have to have their books personalized. That's a value, or feature, of bibliophilia that may vanish. How do you get your e-book signed? The idea of people standing in line to get my signature in their book, it's hard to turn them away.

Chris Van Allsburg

#14. It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.

George W. Bush

#15. Destiny is your bride;
your actions are the ring.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Edward Cocker

#17. Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.

Tina Brown

#18. Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

Flannery O'Connor

#19. Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.

Donald Barthelme

#20. In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.

Maggie Gallagher

#21. Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.

Burton Richter

#22. Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

Bernie Mac