Comfortable Quotes - Page 12

• ...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.

  Julia Child

  Joy, Quiet, Missions

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.17, Anchor

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• Don't get too comfortable. It's not over until I say it is. -A

  Sara Shepard

  Liars

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• Murder? You mean he's dead?" "No. He's resting comfortably," I said. "People always sleep best with their heads at a ninety-degree angle. He looks comfortable, doesn't he?" (Paige & Elena)

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mean, Sleep, People

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• Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

  Isabel Allende

  Character, Grandmother, Care

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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• I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.

  Holly Lisle

  Children, Cities, People

  Holly Lisle (2009). “The Silver Door”, p.166, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

  Diane Lane

  Long, Kind, Term

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• A man can stand almost any hardship by day, and be none the worse for it, provided he gets a comfortable nights rest; but without sound sleep he will soon go to pieces, no matter how gritty he may be.

  Horace Kephart

  Sleep, Night, Men

  Horace Kephart (1906). “The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilerness”

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• It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Nice, Scare

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.441, Princeton University Press

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• Everyone has his own particular talent, niche and interests. Which isn't to say that you shouldn't try new genres or styles or explore forms other than the ones you're most comfortable with. But you should be willing to recognize that when writers try to make themselves into something they aren't or, more important, don't want to be ... they aren't going to be doing their best work.

  Kevin Alexander

  Writing, Style, Important

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• Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Family, Marriage, Children

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• An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

  Patricia L. Fry

  Relationship, Money, Loneliness

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• To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily.

  Jon Krakauer

  Meaning Of Life, Purpose, Path

  "Into the Wild". Book by Jon Krakauer, 1996.

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• By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

  Amory Lovins

  Design, Cost, Energy

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• I can relate to girls with self esteem issues because growing up in this industry there is the side of you that is obsessed with perfection. You want to please everyone because if you don't, you won't get the job. There is always someone prettier, smarter, or a better actor that you. You start to nit-pick everything. That perfectionism kicks in and it can take over your life if you let it. You have to get comfortable with yourself. Then, if you get the job, it is an added bonus.

  Naya Rivera

  Girl, Jobs, Growing Up

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• I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

  Grant Show

  School, Thinking, Two

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• In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.

  Marina Lewycka

  Country, Lying, Ignorance

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• One who is established in a comfortable posturewhile concentrating on the inner self alonenaturally becomes immersed in the spontaneousarising of the heart's ocean of bliss.

  Jaideva Singh

  Ocean, Yoga, Heart

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• I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Mean, Japan, Class

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• No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Good Life

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.12, Penguin

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• My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

  Scott Berkun

  Confidence, Goal, Perfection

  Scott Berkun (2009). “Confessions of a Public Speaker”, p.18, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• I'm very comfortable with my own body. I come from Broadway — everybody's naked on Broadway. I like to think of myself as more granola. I'm not going to run around naked or anything like that unless I'm at my own home. Today, I walked into my backyard and was standing out there naked for a while. Don't tell: my neighbors will freak out!

  Lea Michele

  Running, Home, Thinking

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• As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

  Jupiter Hammon

  World, Drink, Masters

  Jupiter Hammon's address to the Negroes in the state of New York, 1787.

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• I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.

  Hugh Dancy

  Inspirational, Funny, Insecure

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• A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Team, People, Actors

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