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• Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Friday, Worry, Today

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• ...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

  Aldous Huxley

  Home, Mind, States

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

  Jed Rubenfeld

  Moral, Proof, Disgusting

  "The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel". Book by Jed Rubenfeld, May 15, 2007.

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• We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that.

  Emily Giffin

  Couple, Thinking, Special

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.307, Macmillan

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• Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sleep, August, Long

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.46, Scholastic Inc.

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• Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring

  Sarah Dessen

  Wish, Would Be, Littles

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• He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Comforting, Dental

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• All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

  Peter York

  Names, Long, Louis Vuitton

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• There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

  Robin Hobb

  Littles, Welcome, Genuine

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.266, Spectra

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• I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

  Jason Sellards

  Live In The Moment, Suitcases, Moments

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• One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

  Kenneth Koch

  Attitude, Fall, Maturity

  Kenneth Koch (1978). “I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home”, Random House Incorporated

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• I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is.

  Bob Hope

  Actors, Oscars, Really Great

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Wall, Flower

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• The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Writing, Doubt, Sound

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1961). “From a Logical Point of View: 9 Logico-philosophical Essays”, p.26, Harvard University Press

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• A knowledgeable physical therapist can slowly build up patients' confidence by reassuring them that there is no structural problem and reminding them of the physiologic reason for the pain.

  John E. Sarno

  Pain, Patient, Problem

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• Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

  Fredric Jameson

  Mass Culture, Games, Imperialism

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.

  Katie Price

  Insecure, Needs, Persons

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• There is someone for everyone, i'nt there. That's always my thing. And it's reassuring I think.

  Karl Pilkington

  Thinking

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or what have you. As a matter of fact, the truly dishonest man will last longer in college -teaching or the ministry than he will in the business world.

  Benjamin A. Rogge

  Teaching, College, Men

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• While testimonies can come as dramatic manifestations, they usually do not. Sometimes people think they need to have an experience like Joseph Smith's vision before they gain testimonies. If we have unrealistic expectations of how, when, or where answers come, we risk missing the answers which come as quiet, reassuring feelings and thoughts that most often come after our prayers, while we are doing something else. These answers can be equally convincing and powerful.

  Allan F. Packer

  Prayer, Powerful, Thinking

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• Oddly, though, lists are reassuring. We become aware of this if we scrupulously follow a recipe, which is essentially a list of ingredients and actions; but if we give this 'list' too much importance, we leave no room for the imagination.

  Jean-Claude Ellena

  Giving, Imagination, Recipes

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• With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of each other, a terror life obscures but never ceases to justify. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Taken, Talking

  The House in Paris pt. 1, ch. 2 (1935)

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• After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Order, Alive

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• For the most part, I meet people who are like 'I really like your work. I'm watching your career. I want to see you do well. Keep doing what you do.' I get that so much, and it's so reassuring. I often wish that so many people, who just work normal jobs, could get a pat on the back as much as I do, because it's very complimentary.

  Michael Ealy

  Jobs, Careers, People

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