Comfort Quotes - Page 39

• 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

  Grief, Sorrow, May

  Alice Adams (2011). “TO SEE YOU AGAIN: Stories”, p.146, Vintage

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• People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

  Annabelle Wallis

  Cutting, People, Risk

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• The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.

  Zoltan Istvan

  Dream, Spirit, Obedience

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• Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  People, Trying, Tears

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV, How the Idea Came about, His Collaborative Company, Inspiring People to Contribute, and Plans for Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 15, 2014.

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• 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

  People, Mind, Waking

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.

  Farrah Gray

  Mom, Strong, Growing Up

  TheCelebrityCafe.com Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. February 23, 2011.

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• The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Morning, Book, Yellow

  "Brown : The Last Discovery of America". Book by Richard Rodriguez, 2003.

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• I, Tivadar Kosztka, who gave up his prime of youth for the rebirth of the world, accepting the call of the invisible Spirit, had a regular civil job, comfort, wealth then... Going to Paris in 1907 I oppositely standed alone in front of millions with only the result of the divine providence, and I beat the vanity of the world hollow, but I haven't killed 10 million people, only sobered them. I haven't made commercials from things, because I didn't care for the pedlar's press; I retired from the world instead, going to the top of the Lebanons, and I painted cedars.

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Jobs, Vanity, Paris

  "The Positivum". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary, written between 1910-1920.

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• In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Family, Home, House

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• O Hope, sweet flatterer! thy, delusive touch
  Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort,
  Relieves the load of poverty, sustains
  The captive, bending with the weight of bonds,
  And smooths the pillow of disease and pain.

  Richard Glover

  Hope, Sweet, Pain

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• Cash is cold comfort under these circumstances. But make no mistake about it; It is some comfort.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Money, Mistake, Cash

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• I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where all the dudes wear Carhartt and all the women can put on a beautiful sweater with a snowman applique and nobody raises an eyebrow.

  Hilarie Burton

  Beautiful, Virginia, Eyebrows

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• Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

  Vera Farmiga

  Directors, Actors, Massage

  "Actress Farmiga at Sundance with directing debut". Interview with Jay A. Fernandez, www.reuters.com. January 24, 2011.

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• My style is mainly about comfort. It has to be comfortable, it has to lay right on me, know what I mean?

  Ne-Yo

  Mean, Style, Knows

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• The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
  Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
  My thrice-driven bed of down.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Tyrants, Bed

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [230]

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• Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Philosophy, May

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.277

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• He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

  John Milton

  Greatness, Doe, Done

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.495

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• Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

  Iggy Pop

  Good Day, Blow, Past

  "Iggy Pop: 'I was looking for an elegant coma'". Interview with Mark Tutton, www.cnn.com. July 1, 2009.

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• I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

  Molly Ringwald

  Musical, Want, Jazz

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• As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

  Matt Bomer

  Roles, Actors, Certain

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• I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

  Eden Sher

  Long, Volunteer, If I Stay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance.

  Hill Harper

  Wall, Sleep, Night

  "Hill Harper Defines True Wealth". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2011.

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• The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only.

  Ryan Lindley

  Children, Welfare

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• Americans ... attach such a fantastic importance to their baths and plumbing and gadgets of all sorts. They talk as if people could hardly be human beings without all that; we in Europe are beginning to wonder if people can be human beings with it.

  Ann Bridge

  Europe, People, Baths

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.114, A&C Black

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• No person can comfort like a dog can.

  L. T. Meade

  Dog, Persons

  L. T. Meade (2015). “Girls of the True Blue”, p.36, W. & R. CHAMBERS, Limited

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