Satisfactory Quotes

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I would advise any woman against having an affair with a married man believing he will ever leave his wife, no matter how often he says his wife does not understand him. Love is not as necessary to a man`s happiness as it is to a woman`s. If her marriage is satisfactory, a woman will seldom stray. A man can be totally contented and still be out howling at the moon.

- Bette Davis

I had a certain fear of exposing myself too much in my work for a long time. A lot of what performing to me had been was elaborate, and at times quite clever, concealment. Someone once said of acting that it is `telling beautiful lies,` and well, it became just no longer satisfactory to work that way.

- Patrick Stewart

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the `50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

- Thom Gunn

On the cancellation of "Enterprise" (2001): "Someone said that Paramount went to the well one too many times and our show just happened to be that walk to the well. I tend to agree with that. I don`t think our numbers were really that much worse than Voyager or Deep Space Nine -- they were all in the same ballpark -- but the cost-to-viewer ratio of Star Trek reached a point when we were making Enterprise where it was no longer satisfactory to the studio. Star Trek was no longer cost effective." (October 2006)

- Connor Trinneer

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

- Jeffrey Hunter

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don`t make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

- Russell Hoban

Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it`s not been satisfactory.

- Warren Christopher

Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you`ll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there`s decent burden sharing along the way. If there`s, if you like a proper transitional assistance.

- John Anderson

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

- Aristotle

We have supported the school throughout this process and are pleased that a satisfactory resolution has been reached.

- David Mitchell

overall Palestinian Authority performance to date has been far from satisfactory.

- David Welch

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

- Robertson Davies

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

- James Larkin

That`s a question I`ve asked myself everyday for the past 18 months, ... I`ve yet to come up with a satisfactory answer other than my stupidity.

- Robert Stevens

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

- Edward Hopper

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

- Alan Cropsey

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

- Alan Goldman

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

- Alan Rodger

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

- Alyce Robertson

Before leaving for our camp at Kitty Hawk we tested the chain drive for the propellers in our shop at Dayton, and found it satisfactory.

- Amjad Jamal

I lacked a bit of freshness to clock a better time. But overall, it`s satisfactory.

- Anthony Christie

36 satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new.

- Anupam Agarwal

We want to work with the state to get a satisfactory resolution with this so we can continue to develop as a business.

- Archie Sherbinow

Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, businessman or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts, and varying interests.

- Margaret Mead