We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.