Comfort Quotes - Page 27

• The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art.

  Keren Ann

  Song, Art, Real

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• Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

  Marissa Mayer

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Roles

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• I don't know if you call a burger recession food. It's comfort food.

  Michael Mina

  Burgers, Recessions, Knows

  "Stonehill Tavern update: An Interview with Michael Mina about St. Regis, Burgers and the AIG Bailout Party". Interview with Amy Scattergood, www.laweekly.com. July 1, 2009.

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• Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

  Levon Helm

  Song, Hard Times, Past

  FaceBook post by Levon Helm from Nov 16, 2014

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• It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Breaking Silence, Arches, World

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Sorrow, Desire

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• Make sure you comfort everybody, because you have so much power. The influence you do have, make sure you use that for the right things that's going to propel you, and propel your company. It's not always about making profit. I know y'all know how to make profit, and I know that's what it's about! But I'm very happy that I can come here and tell you I'm someone that has not been driven by the profit. You can succeed with the people.

  Lil B

  People, Use, Succeed

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• Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Revelations, Curmudgeon

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.92, BookBaby

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• Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

  Heinrich Heine

  Death, Summer, Blessed

  Heinrich Heine (1891). “The Works of Heinrich Heine”

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• The roles that push you out of your comfort zones are the ones in which you learn a great deal and really empower yourself.

  Ruzwana Bashir

  Empowering, Roles, Deals

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• The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Grief, Sacrifice

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• He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death had made the visit easy, had unloosed the weight that held him in the depths of being. It was even a comfort to think, from the light repose the struggle up the hill had brought him, that Kiyoaki, struggling against illness up that same road, had been given wings to soar with by the denial that awaited him.

  Yukio Mishima

  Struggle, Thinking, Wings

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• I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Dry Up, Population, Needs

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont (1968). “Tocqueville and Beaumont on social reform”

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• The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden's safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community.

  Michael Scheuer

  Safety, Community, Special

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• The Ed Hardy man is confident with a strong sense of personal style. He is not afraid to be seen and take risks. He enjoys comfort and flexible style, yet he wants to stand apart from the crowd.

  Christian Audigier

  Strong, Men, Risk

  "Ed Hardy Interview". Interview with Andrew Cliver, www.askmen.com.

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• To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Teaching, Mean, Essence

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• Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough, fear of the future-all these fears and more keep us trapped, repeating the same old patterns and making the same choices over and over again. Fear prevents us from moving outside the comfort-or even the familiar discomfort-of what we know. It's nearly impossible to achieve our highest vision for our lives as long as we are being guided by our fears.

  Debbie Ford

  Fear, Moving, Past

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• How is your life limited by your fear? What are you not doing that you'd really like to do? When we use fear to our advantage by tackling those things that evoke a sense of excitement and trepidation, fear becomes and ally. Each experience provides a challenge and an opportunity to expand your comfort zone. The way to create an extraordinary life is to make the challenge of fear work for you by building your courage muscles.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Fear, Opportunity, Challenges

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• We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Waiting, Speak

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• When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Feet, Shoes

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• Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Comfort And Joy, Joy, Victory

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• Always remember that, every time you step out of your comfort zone, you step into God's comfort zone.

  Mark Cahill

  Steps, Remember, Zone

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• Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.

  George Eliot

  Missing, Cushions

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.429, Wordsworth Editions

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• A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

  William Penn

  Gains, Life Is, Proportion

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.153

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• I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

  Temple Grandin

  Mother, Teacher, Kids

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