No road back to the first time I looked, wide-eyed, at the guards with automatic weapons surrounding another country's parliament building — a sight that made me shake my head with a mixture of resignation and self-satisfaction, thinking, we don't need that sort of thing where I come from.
"I think I probably got some satisfaction from thinking, 'Well, everyone assumes I am gay".' Leeds-born Bennett penned The Madness of George III (1991) and The History Boys (2004), both of which were made into films.
At the time of the relationship he enjoyed the sense of wrongfooting people: "I think I probably got some satisfaction from thinking, 'Well, everyone assumes I am gay.'" These days he doesn't go out all that much, certainly not to the theatre.
But she added, "I don't want to give anybody the satisfaction of thinking they've got me trembling".
My son Thomas thought he wanted to be a writer, studied English in college, and made some feeble stabs at actual composition while reluctantly noticing that his greatest satisfaction came from thinking through his hands.
Bob's story is a great example of how career-related interests can influence job satisfaction, and how thinking hard about those interests can shorten the path between scientific training and a fulfilling career.
At the least, people will think and thinking is the great enemy of smugness and self-satisfaction.
We must stop relating to the world, in short, as desperate parasites bent on short-term self-preservation and rampant needs-satisfaction and start thinking about how our activity within nature can help us pursue lives both meaningful to us and non-destructive to the planet.
She adds, "Now, with Whitewater going on, nonliberals are taking a certain satisfaction in thinking, Uh-huh, you were not my moral superior, Madam".
