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The sweetness of the Scripture is satisfactory to the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have had a satisfactory, often exciting life, of which I am appropriately proud.
— Kermit Roosevelt Jr.
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
— Maimonides
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
— Aristotle.
When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.
— Lei Jun
If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
— Samuel Beckett
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
One constructs for oneself a satisfactory system only when one is ignorant of the characteristics of the phenomena to be explained.
— Maupertuis
At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.
— Aldo Leopold
All action is an attempt to exchange a less satisfactory state of affairs for a more satisfactory one.
— Murray Rothbard
It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality
— Wolfgang Pauli
Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.
— Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in the other.
— Louis Stanley
I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
— John Banham
Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new
— Freeman Patterson
It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
— Samuel Alexander
And unless one can observe the guilt and regret of the mourners, surely there is nothing satisfactory about being dead?
— Truman Capote
Thus do the gods justify the life of man: they themselves live it
the only satisfactory theodicy! — Friedrich Nietzsche
the only satisfactory theodicy! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Love - well, not love at first sight, but love at the end of the season, which is so much more satisfactory.
— Oscar Wilde
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
— Seneca The Younger
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
— Benjamin Graham
A woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.
— Anna Katharine Green
If I could communicate only by words on a page, how much more satisfactory I would be!
— Lynn Barber
We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.
— Felix Adler
None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.
— Jamaica Kincaid
The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.
— Kenneth Oakley
We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves.
— John Prescott
Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
— Aldous Huxley
Three cheers for Mr. and Mrs. Bower and their really satisfactory American family of twelve children!
— Edmund Morris
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
— Frank Herbert
Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.
— Rex Stout
No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.
— Thomas Jefferson
In the history of the world there was not one example of a man ever having written a satisfactory letter to a woman who mattered to him.
— Chris Cleave
The only really satisfactory confidante for your troubles is someone who enjoys them, and this inevitably cuts out anyone who actually loves you.
— Celia Fremlin
The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.
— Hermann Joseph Muller
You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
— Barry Levinson
I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
— Edward Hopper
People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.
— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
One day, if you make the most of it, can be more satisfactory than a lifetime squandered.
— Colleen Houck
Science is a satisfactory curiosity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
— Alice B. Toklas
I believe that the monetary stability is an absolutely critical element in the satisfactory operation of a system.
— Milton Friedman
A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.
— Baltasar Gracian
I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.
— Lucy Lawless
To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.
— Brian May
The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.
— Raheel Farooq
When a woman can accept masculine sympathy it is much more satisfactory to her than crying to another girl.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.
— Anthony Burgess
When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.
— Sun Tzu
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Burrich told me that the ax was not a sophisticated weapon, but was a very satisfactory one if used correctly.
— Robin Hobb
To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?
— Virginia Woolf
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
— James A. Garfield
How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
wholly satisfactory,
— Elizabeth Peters
She always kept up the questioning until she received a satisfactory answer.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
— Robertson Davies
One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.
— Robert Breault
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
— Charles Dickens
Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent ...
— Cornelia Parker
In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.
— Erasmus Darwin
I ask you now, is any little thing like being damned eternally a satisfactory excuse for behaving like a complete rat?
— Fritz Leiber
Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse.
— Louis De Bernieres
Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
— Karl Kraus
When I look at the record of President Obama concerning the major issue security I think it's a highly satisfactory record from Israeli point of view.
— Shimon Peres
Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.
— Ella Maillart
Satisfactory husband that he was, he was a man and not one inclined to wax poetic about a day of cupcakes and movies.
— Laura Lippman
Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.
— Helen Rowland
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
— Bill Nye
A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)
— Peter Newmark
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
— Thomas Browne