Quotes about Fulfillment

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

Count that day lost whose low descending sun. Views from thy hand no worthy action done.

A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Real is the club of my heart, and I promised my grandfather that I would play there one day. I hope that it will happen.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.

I don't want to be a glamour doll. I want roles which provide me the scope to perform.

Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.

And whatso man they call Happy, believe not ere the last day fall!

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..

And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.