The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. — Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson : English Author
Born: September 18, 1709
Died: December 13, 1784
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go bef…
The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way bef…
You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, bef…
There are signs, I think, that people aren’t satisfied by co…
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a fai…
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America…
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go bef…
The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way bef…
You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, bef…
There are signs, I think, that people aren’t satisfied by co…
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and h…
I’m satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman…
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as m…
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a fai…
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America…
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, …
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the mat…
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools …
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the De…
Our culture’s obsession with vintage objects has rendered us…
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. Rabindranat…
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of hi…
I don’t like to design single objects. I like my pieces to h…
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, es…
That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for th…
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into thre…
