Ungratifying Quotes

#1. There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.

Dawn Powell

#2. Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.

Jeremy Collier

#3. Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#4. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." "I

Oscar Wilde

#5. The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

Mike Pence

#6. Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.

Faith Sullivan

#7. Books are beacons that shine light into our thoughts.
-Redmond Herring 2015

Redmond Herring

#8. When you're lying on your deathbed, one of the cool things to say is, 'I really explored myself.' This sense of urgency was instilled when my mom died. If you only go through life doing stuff that's easy, shame on you.

Carol S. Dweck

#9. She was his greatest possibility. His reason. His why. He would give whatever she needed to be whole and happy, because loving her was as essential as drawing air.

Pam Godwin

#10. As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my roo;, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you.

Mika.

#11. ... for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts: an eternal Perfection is moulding us into its own image.

Sri Aurobindo

#12. I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise.

Richard Watson Gilder

#13. When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

Simon Callow

#14. The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

Lester Bangs

#15. Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Alan Cooper

#16. Ruth believed in precycling. An evolution on recycling. She made use of things before people threw them out.

Louise Penny

#17. There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.

Robert Irwin