Comfortable Quotes - Page 22

• If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.

  Anne Lamott

  Safe, Stuck, Dies

  Anne Lamott (2013). “Wow: The Third Essential Prayer”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Spending time with you just feels...right,somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just comfortable together, and I remember growing up thinking that one day I wanted to have that, too.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Growing Up, Thinking, Parent

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “Dear John”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.

  Patricia Briggs

  Talking, Lists, Public Speaking

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.124, Penguin

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• ...because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to "normal," once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were.

  Max Brooks

  Growing Up, Selfish, Kids

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.336, Broadway Books

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• Even painfully shy and awkward people are not painfully shy or awkward when they are alone. The way to access this natural, comfortable alone-self when you are with others is by choosing to forbid yourself to wonder what "they" are thinking. Instead, force yourself to exist in the instant, then take it- and give it- as it comes.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Thinking, Self, People

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.62, Macmillan

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• I am very comfortable with conflict, be it of the legal or mortal kind. My father was a mediator, a bridge maker. I am a grave maker.

  J.R. Ward

  Father, Bridges, Kind

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• I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  People, Lazy, Safe

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.55, VM eBooks

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• He'd been waiting for a love fraught with passion and drama; it hadn't even occurred to him that true love might be something that was utterly comfortable and just plain easy.

  Julia Quinn

  Drama, Passion, Waiting

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• Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was I going to go all fetal position, or was I going to woman up? I went into fetal position on the bed to think about this. Fetal position turned out to be very comfortable.

  Maureen Johnson

  Thinking, Empathy, Bed

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• They were standing in a very large room. The floorboards stretched in a pale expanse at their feet. There was so much dust on the floor that it had a pearly sheen. ”Even you could not nap on this floor,” Kami told Angela. ”I don’t know, a dust mattress might be very comfortable,” said Angela. ”Also possibly orthopedic.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Naps, Dust, Feet

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Life, Success, Education

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Husband

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.391, A&C Black

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• I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

  Colin Hay

  Musical, Style, Different

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• If you would have peace, genuine peace, you must accept all the aspects of your personality and learn to be comfortable with them.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Personality, Accepting, Genuine

  Morgan Llywelyn (2010). “Lion of Ireland”, p.205, Macmillan

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• In your thirties, you're much more comfortable with sex. First of all, sex is something you've done more. You know you can have sex just to have sex; you can have sex with friends; you can have sex with people you love; you can have sex with people you don't like, but the sex is good. And you can joke about sex much more.

  Julie Delpy

  Sex, Love You, People

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• Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.

  Helmut Jahn

  Smart, Judging, Opinion

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• It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

  George H. Smith

  Men, Atheism, May

  George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.10, Prometheus Books

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• You know how they do that effect in movies, where they make it look like you have a twin, but it's really just the same actor playing both characters in the scene? I knew this would be the best route, but I just wasn't comfortable dressing as a woman, so I had to hire other actors.

  Zach Braff

  Character, Would Be, Looks

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• You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.

  Amy Irving

  Blood, Wind, Water

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• I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that.

  Joe Biden

  Men, Rights, Liberty

  "Biden breaks down stance on same-sex marriage". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. May 06, 2012.

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• Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.

  Guru Nanak

  Ocean, Past, Self

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• I mean, when you grow up dancing, you have to become very comfortable in your own skin.

  Sharni Vinson

  Growing Up, Mean, Dancing

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• I used to always pull my jersey out of my pants. Earl Tatum was like that, too. I was just more comfortable. There were no rules then. They didn't make you tuck your jerseys in and it was just comfortable for me.

  Bo Ellis

  Pants, Jersey, Used

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• I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.

  Tom T. Hall

  Men, Lucky, Worried

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• If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Home, Jeans, Sweaters

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