Human Beings Are Never Satisfied Quotes

#1. Some of y'all are not where you want to be in life, yet you party every weekend. What is it that you're celebrating?

T.I.

#2. I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman

#3. Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.

Beau Willimon

#4. In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.

Dalai Lama

#5. Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.

H.L. Mencken

#6. All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over.

David Lagercrantz

#7. Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing! Surely not!

Wendelin Van Draanen

#8. I wish for magic this season,
laughter and fun.
I wish for mistletoe kisses-
those sparkly ones.

Cheri Bauer

#9. Turkey's great if you're one of those people who can't sleep on planes because when the tryptophan kicks in, it's no problem.

Mike Pesca

#10. Loyalty is what you focus on and won't give up.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. Only very few people are born with awareness. Those are the people who die in awareness. If the death was conscious, then the birth will be conscious, because the death is the one side and the birth is the other side of the same coin.

Rajneesh

#12. Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to be satisfied with "I don't know".

Nathanie Randall

#13. Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.

Moses Finley

#14. [E]very man ought to say to himself, Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?

Jean-Paul Sartre

#15. When the lights go out, the parents cry and ask each other what did he do to her, but the girls are burning with a question of their own: what did she do? What does she know now that makes her so dangerous, like the slow amber leak of a noxious fume?

Eleanor Catton