Comfort famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us -- because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside of us, are illusions that make us forget the emptyness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough.
-- A.A. Attanasio -
I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.
-- Aaron Baddeley -
When you're not finding the fairway, it's hard to be consistent. [Right now] I'm comfortable and I'm not so comfortable, if that makes sense.
-- Aaron Baddeley -
Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.
-- Abraham Verghese -
True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.
-- Adam Braun -
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
-- Adolf Loos -
Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'
-- Adoniram Judson -
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.
-- Adrian Rogers -
abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
-- Aimee Bender -
That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.
-- Al Yankovic -
There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.
-- Alain Robert -
Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.
-- Alan Cohen -
During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.
-- Alan Sugar -
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.
-- Alan Watts -
The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.
-- Albert Camus -
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
-- Albert Einstein -
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.
-- Albert Einstein -
A promise kept is trust coming to life. A promise kept is more powerful than a good intention, a thought or any material comfort. A promise kept tells the other person they are valued, respected and loved.
-- Alex Blackwell -
The more comfort, the less courage there is.
-- Alexander Suvorov -
You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.
-- Alexander Whyte -
Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
-- Alexis Carrel -
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
The only problem is getting comfortable with myself. It's different for me, a different team. I have to try to do the best I can, working, trying to get comfortable in the left field and with my teammates, too.
-- Alfonso Soriano -
I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well.
-- Alice Adams -
Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
-- Alice Sebold -
I love when I am outside my comfort zone.
-- Alicia Vikander -
I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.
-- Alison Hawthorne Deming -
Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.
-- Allan Jacobs -
We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
-- Amelia Barr -
The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance
-- Amelia Bloomer -
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
-- Amy Bloom -
The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control.
-- Amy Lee -
I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul.
-- Amy Lowell -
...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.
-- Andy Stanley -
He took her in his arms right away. "I'm so sorry," he murmured in her ear. He rocked her, saying it over and over. But no matter how many times he said it, no matter how much she knew he meant it, the words stirred around in her ear but didn't get into her brain. Sometimes he could comfort her. Sometimes he said what she needed, but today he couldn't reach her. Nothing could.
-- Ann Brashares -
You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready †“Ready.†“At least I tried.
-- Ann Brashares -
At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.
-- Ann Brashares -
Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
-- Ann Brashares -
I'm not one of those stars that goes out and literally dresses to be photographed. I'm kind of a 'what you see is what you get' type of girl when I dress. I go for comfort above everything else.
-- Anne Hathaway -
People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.
-- Anne Hollander -
We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer ... how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. ... There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. [p. 253]
-- Anne Lamott -
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens
-- Anne McCaffrey -
Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
-- Anne Tyler -
As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.
-- Annette Funicello -
I'm comfortable with that [a week's practice]. I've had numerous weeks of working on it, and a lot of it has been football specific. One week of practice actually, one week of official practice and I'll be more than comfortable.
-- Anquan Boldin -
Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one's soul.
-- Anthony Douglas -
A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement.
-- Arthur Gray -
Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.
-- Arthur Nersesian -
Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence comfort me.
-- Arvo Part -
Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.
-- Atul Gawande -
In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.
-- Auguste Rodin -
Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.
-- B. F. Skinner -
When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
-- Banksy -
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
-- Bayard Taylor -
It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.
-- Ben Robertson -
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon -
Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.
-- Bert Murray -
Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.
-- Bertrand Russell -
One of our greatest challenges as Christians is to be driven by the love of Christ rather than constantly seeking after God's comfort.
-- Beth Moore -
If we remain compelled by comfort, we will miss the greatest adventures of our calling.
-- Beth Moore -
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
-- Bill Cosby -
Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.
-- Bill Courtney -
Each one of us has a comfort zone. The problem comes when we are unwilling to leave it.
-- Bill Courtney -
We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !
-- Bill Gates -
What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all around us. It's going to take us a long time to learn how to climb down a little bit from the heights on which we have put ourselves.
-- Bill McKibben -
The great comfort in knowing that angels minister to believers in Christ is that God Himself sends them to us.
-- Billy Graham -
A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.
-- Blaise Pascal -
When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.
-- Bob Benson -
I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone.
-- Bob Parsons -
Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
-- Brad Henry -
I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.
-- Brad Paisley -
Because animals seem to dwell in the present moment, because their own presence is so instinctive, their attention so unwavering, the offer us a different kind of compassion than humans do. Anyone is lucky to have both human and animal comfort in their lives.
-- Brenda Peterson -
The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed to be, lived as we thought we were supposed to live. Then the safety and comfort and compromise get to us, and a stirring of restlessness and revolution sends us off in search of greater adventures and meaning. From THE CHARGE
-- Brendon Burchard -
You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.
-- Brené Brown -
When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.
-- Brett Ratner -
They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.
-- Brian Grazer -
I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.
-- Brian Grazer -
The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.
-- Brian Tracy -
The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .
-- Brian Tracy -
Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.
-- Brian Tracy -
Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.
-- Bridget Hall -
Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
-- Budd Schulberg -
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
-- Buzz Aldrin -
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you.
-- Byron Katie -
How could one comfort a disturbed person? He is already assailed with doubts about his faith. He would have to despair with such a doctrine. Rather one must seek to convince him that the Savior is there for him, has already forgiven him, and has already accepted him. As soon as one makes faith even in the least a requirement for justification, one takes from such a person all the comfort of the Gospel.
-- C. F. W. Walther -
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I'd punch that ***** in the balls before I'd cup him for comfort.
-- Calamity Jane
