Comfort Quotes - Page 35

• [On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.

  Teresa of Avila

  Father, Blessing, Losing Him

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• The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.

  Freya Stark

  Doubt, Usual, Camels

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• The villager, born humbly and bred hard,
  Content his wealth, and poverty his guard,
  In action simply just, in conscience clear,
  By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear,
  His means but scanty, and his wants but few,
  Labor his business, and his pleasure too,
  Enjoys more comforts in a single hour
  Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power.

  Charles Churchill

  Mean, Giving, Guilt

  Charles Churchill (1783). “The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author”, p.90

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• He receives comfort like cold porridge.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Cold

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. 10

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• Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.

  Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby

  Food, Scotch Whisky, Cooking

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• So it's not a matter of the military lying to the press, but it's the job of the military to deny the press any information that will provide aid and comfort to the enemy.

  David Hackworth

  Jobs, Military, Lying

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Comfort and solace come about differently for different people.

  D. T. Max

  People, Different, Solace

  Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.

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• I've always been a fan of the band setting. I've always been a believer in bands, and I've always been in bands. That's where my comfort zone is. So to stand outside of that, that was never my intention or goal. I never had the dream of, 'I'm gonna go into all these bands as a spring board for my solo work.' But life takes you on different journeys sometimes. I ended up playing a bunch of songs and some of them I really liked.

  Frank Iero

  Dream, Song, Spring

  Source: www.alterthepress.com

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• Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It's crusts that feed the virtuous, it's cake that comforts sinners, / But writers live on bread and praise at Literary Dinners.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Cake, Caviar, Dinner

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• Since, by your greatness, you
  Are nearer heaven in place; be nearer it
  In goodness: rich men should transcend the poor,
  As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of
  The sun, to water dry and barren grounds.

  Cyril Tourneur

  Greatness, Men, Clouds

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• I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Book, Stills, Relish

  Mary Russell Mitford (1872). “Letters of Mary Russell Mitford: 2d Ser”, p.232

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• What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

  George W. Bush

  Character, Government, Community

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give.
  Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it.
  And now I think I have said sufficient.

  Anne Bronte

  Mother, Children, Book

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.743, Penguin

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• To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation. He knows before He initiates or permits the adversity exactly how He will use it for our good.

  Jerry Bridges

  Fashion, Encouragement, Adversity

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• The only thing I want from my money is to die in comfort.

  Catherine Cookson

  Money, Want, Planning

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• [On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

  Harriet Martineau

  Struggle, May, Deaf

  Harriet Martineau (1836). “Philosophical essays. Essays on the art of thinking. Sabbath musings. Moral essays. Parables. Poetry”, p.259

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• So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.

  Jane Goodall

  Ignorance, Circles, Drawing

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• When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Moving, Circles, Mind

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1988). “Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Vintage

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• I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.

  Han Suyin

  Freedom, Justice, Liberty

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• The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Heart, Sorrow, Depth

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• ... the running shoe ... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear ... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort?

  Mimi Pond

  Running, Army, Knives

  Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Role Models, Lovers, Imitation

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• The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places--to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.

  Olympia Brown

  Broken, Earth, Waste

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• It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate.
  [Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Fate, Knows, Misfortunes

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• That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Men, Feminism, Haunting

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.32, University of Toronto Press

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