Congenial Quotes

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
Emma Goldman

Strong, Character, Sex

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
John Burroughs

Work, Heart, Blessed

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
Edward Hopper

Possible, Present, Impressive

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
Marshall McLuhan

Political, Action, Both

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
Giacomo Casanova

Health, Food, Excellent

We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Working, Hardest, Adaptable

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.
Paul Theroux

Life, Book, Writing

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
Floyd Abrams

Loyalty, Find, Same

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
Carlisle Floyd

Music, Write, Found

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?
Wilfred Owen

Life, Ask, Ministry

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. Pritchett

Happiness, Find, Secret

I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!
John Cameron

Help, Problems, Found

Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition.
Robert Nozick

Place, Behavior, Benefit

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.
Cheryl Mendelson

Love, Person, Getting

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
Alan Brien

Men, Waiting, End

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