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We tend to confuse love and lust. Love is a deep connection that nurtures the soul, while lust is a fleeting desire that satisfies the moment. – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 2 months ago
The whole of the circumstantial evidence satisfies me that Mr Dawson is dead, that Mr Dawson died on or about 8 January 1982, and that Mr Dawson did not voluntarily abandon Mr Dawson home, i'm satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the only rational inference that the circumstances enable me to draw is that Mr Dawson died or on about 8 January 1982 as the result of a conscious and voluntary act committed by Mr Dawson with the intention of causing Mr Dawson death. – Ian Harrison	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Your love satisfies me like a desert of oasiss. – Heather Lydia Thornhill	added by heatherthornhill 1 year ago
The violence and lawlessness at the border caused by transnational cartels and gangs satisfies the definition of an ‘invasion’ under the U.S. Constitution, and Arizona therefore has the power to defend itself from this invasion under the governor’s authority as commander in chief, an actual invasion permits the state to engage in defensive actions within its own territory at or near its border. – Mark Brnovich	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think the' Great Resignation' that has gone on has really helped people open their eyes and ask questions about what type of career, what type of job satisfies me and makes me feel good about the choices I've made, and I think as people begin to reflect on that, community colleges are in a great position to say,' Hey, you can come here and get retrained in those areas that you're excited about.'. – John Downey	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He's going to get something out of this that satisfies him, that he's made his point that Ukraine can never become truly independent, can not become a member of NATO and can not have any kind of offensive arms. – William Cohen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I will be voting in favor of it, it's a deal that's been agreed with the European Union, it's a two side deal and that satisfies me. – John Mann	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The people who work on these movies, by and large, are artists who want to be appreciated as artists by other artists in town, when they are in contention for An Oscar, it means something deeper. It satisfies them in a way that money can't. – Kyle Buchanan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Double-digits sounds really cool. Winning is never easy, when you've beat a class field on a great venue, that satisfies you as a player. It's a win-and-a-half mentally. – Justin Rose	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
What I get is a delicious, healthy bowl that complies with my diet and satisfies all my cravings, i have not ever gotten sick of eating Chipotle and truthfully don't think I ever will. If I need a flavor change, I simply add some tabasco to it or maybe some other spice.But in three months, I've never not looked forward to eating it. – Tyler Marinelli	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We reached a deal to avoid a strike which satisfies the workers' demands. – Domingo Hernandez	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Regardless of whether their conduct satisfies certain legal definitions, including genocide and crimes against humanity, the United States has been clear that our interest in accountability for the perpetrators remains undiminished. – State Department spokesman John Kirby	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Today, the Japan Sports Council reported that Plan A was chosen for the new National Stadium design, the ministerial meeting has checked the selection was made in an appropriate manner. This is an excellent plan that satisfies the principle philosophy, construction, deadline and cost of the Olympic plan. – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is a public thing that is moving along the path of the. good relations they are looking for, my desire is that they end up with a good result, that they reach an accord that satisfies both sides, an accord, certainly. – Pope Francis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You don’t get the great big burst of nicotine you get with a cigarette, but at this point, it satisfies my cravings. – Mike Morgan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Just like any tragedy, the ultimate question - why? - will never have an answer that satisfies those whose loved ones have been injured or killed. – Florida State's Strozier Library	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. – Virginia Woolf	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body. – Norman Cousins	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. – Oliver Cromwell	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. – Walt Whitman	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal. – Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. – Charles Baudelaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith." – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We tend to confuse love and lust. Love is a deep connection that nurtures the soul, while lust is a fleeting desire that satisfies the moment.

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
2 months ago

The whole of the circumstantial evidence satisfies me that Mr Dawson is dead, that Mr Dawson died on or about 8 January 1982, and that Mr Dawson did not voluntarily abandon Mr Dawson home, i'm satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the only rational inference that the circumstances enable me to draw is that Mr Dawson died or on about 8 January 1982 as the result of a conscious and voluntary act committed by Mr Dawson with the intention of causing Mr Dawson death.

– Ian Harrison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Your love satisfies me like a desert of oasiss.

– Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
1 year ago

The violence and lawlessness at the border caused by transnational cartels and gangs satisfies the definition of an ‘invasion’ under the U.S. Constitution, and Arizona therefore has the power to defend itself from this invasion under the governor’s authority as commander in chief, an actual invasion permits the state to engage in defensive actions within its own territory at or near its border.

– Mark Brnovich

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think the' Great Resignation' that has gone on has really helped people open their eyes and ask questions about what type of career, what type of job satisfies me and makes me feel good about the choices I've made, and I think as people begin to reflect on that, community colleges are in a great position to say,' Hey, you can come here and get retrained in those areas that you're excited about.'.

– John Downey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He's going to get something out of this that satisfies him, that he's made his point that Ukraine can never become truly independent, can not become a member of NATO and can not have any kind of offensive arms.

– William Cohen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I will be voting in favor of it, it's a deal that's been agreed with the European Union, it's a two side deal and that satisfies me.

– John Mann

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The people who work on these movies, by and large, are artists who want to be appreciated as artists by other artists in town, when they are in contention for An Oscar, it means something deeper. It satisfies them in a way that money can't.

– Kyle Buchanan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Double-digits sounds really cool. Winning is never easy, when you've beat a class field on a great venue, that satisfies you as a player. It's a win-and-a-half mentally.

– Justin Rose

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

What I get is a delicious, healthy bowl that complies with my diet and satisfies all my cravings, i have not ever gotten sick of eating Chipotle and truthfully don't think I ever will. If I need a flavor change, I simply add some tabasco to it or maybe some other spice.But in three months, I've never not looked forward to eating it.

– Tyler Marinelli

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We reached a deal to avoid a strike which satisfies the workers' demands.

– Domingo Hernandez

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Regardless of whether their conduct satisfies certain legal definitions, including genocide and crimes against humanity, the United States has been clear that our interest in accountability for the perpetrators remains undiminished.

– State Department spokesman John Kirby

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Today, the Japan Sports Council reported that Plan A was chosen for the new National Stadium design, the ministerial meeting has checked the selection was made in an appropriate manner. This is an excellent plan that satisfies the principle philosophy, construction, deadline and cost of the Olympic plan.

– Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is a public thing that is moving along the path of the. good relations they are looking for, my desire is that they end up with a good result, that they reach an accord that satisfies both sides, an accord, certainly.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You don’t get the great big burst of nicotine you get with a cigarette, but at this point, it satisfies my cravings.

– Mike Morgan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Just like any tragedy, the ultimate question - why? - will never have an answer that satisfies those whose loved ones have been injured or killed.

– Florida State's Strozier Library

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

– Virginia Woolf

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body.

– Norman Cousins

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

– Oliver Cromwell

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

– Walt Whitman

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

– Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

– Charles Baudelaire

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."

– Benjamin Franklin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

– George Santayana

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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