Comfort Quotes - Page 35

• On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Nice, Way, Being Old

  "The Unexpurgated Code". Book by J. P. Donleavy, 1975.

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• The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.

  Halle Berry

  Facts, Chance, Action

  "Reporter, Temp, Online Seductress - Berry Revels In Film's Layered Role". Detroit Free Press, April 08, 2007.

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• We are here for the world, not for our comfort only.

  Marshall Vian Summers

  World

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• I know my comfort zone and I know what my strong points are and my first love was always music. I'm a huge cinema fan. I was taking my time; I got offered a lot of scripts and things along the way but until Burlesque showed up at my doorstep, it really spoke to me. I have a collection of burlesque books at home that I've had for years. I've always been intrigued and fascinated with the topic, the beauty and the art of it and the comedic value of it. I think it's just a beautiful, empowering thing for women.

  Christina Aguilera

  Beautiful, Art, Strong

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• Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Lying, Hero, Men

  Timothy Garton Ash (2012). “Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.

  Alain Badiou

  Plato, Philosophical, Order

  "Plato, Our Dear Plato!". Magazine littéraire, no. 447, November 2005.

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• Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Aging, Effects, Misunderstanding

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.55, Random House

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• I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion. Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Thinking, Pieces, Stones

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• I love that after a day when nothing is sure, and when I say 'nothing' I mean nothing, you can come home and absolutely know that if you add egg yolks to chocolate and sugar and milk, it will get thick. It's such a comfort.

  Julie Powell

  Home, Mean, Eggs

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• Don't be an extra in your own movie. Move out of your comfort zone. Don't be afraid of feeling uncomfortable or awkward. Step-out and make it happen.

  Bob Proctor

  Moving, Awkward, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 11, 2013

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• What we're going to do is use spring training as sort of a feeling-out process for Phil and Preston and our other outfielders. It gives us a lot of comfort to know that you've got a pure center fielder like Preston. But he's also so athletic, he can come in and play either corner and we'll feel very comfortable with it.

  Tim Purpura

  Spring, Play, Giving

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• Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.

  Kirby Larson

  Book, Writing, Expression

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• It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.

  John Ramsay McCulloch

  Ocean, Men, Cities

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• Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

  Christopher Paolini

  Fighting, Fate, Wish

  Christopher Paolini (2011). “Inheritance: Book Four”, p.688, Random House

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• Based on the overwhelming array of luxury products manufacturers have recently introduced, homeowners want anything that makes their lives more comfortable at home. Whether it involves heating/warming accessories or spa-like home environments, it's part of the 'cocooning' phenomena that has resurfaced. People are spending more time at home and they want to be comfortable. They want to use their home to its full potential, not just as a place to eat and sleep between workdays.

  Stephanie Miller

  Home, Sleep, Luxury

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• Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

  Alan Hirsch

  Real, People, Leader

  "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.

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• Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort.

  T. B. Joshua

  Edification, Sin, Conviction

  "Prophetic Birth - A Wednesday Wonder". All Voices, June 15, 2009.

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• Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

  Flora Thompson

  Thinking, Philosopher, Poet

  Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

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• The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.

  Hal Rothman

  Las Vegas, Self, Cities

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• If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change their mode of life; it was because they chose to live this way, because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles and prejudices, political, moral, and religious.... It was in the power of medieval... craftsmen to create armchairs and sofas that might have rivaled in comfort those of today

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Men, Political

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• If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable.

  Adrian Rogers

  Long, Decision, Ifs

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• When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Spiritual, Powerful, Giving

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• Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

  Tryon Edwards

  Blessing, Evil, Giving

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1517, Ravenio Books

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• We love comfort, and people make a lot of money selling us comfort, but I would challenge the notion that comfort is usually good for us.

  Daniel Lieberman

  Pain, People, Challenges

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• No other serial publications carry a number on them that is of any weight to their readership. The number is there to serve a function, but it has no intrinsic value in and of itself. It's comfort food and nostalgia at best. On this, we follow what you and your fellow readers do more than what you say. We hear complaints about renumbering every time we do it, but every time we do it it results in higher sales, which is the whole ballgame - so if it were your time and your effort, what would you do?

  Tom Brevoort

  Book, Numbers, Effort

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