Comforting Quotes - Page 13

• We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

  Mitch Albom

  Giving, Way, Care

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• I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

  Kristen Bell

  Sunday, Nachos, Doritos

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• I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing (to check facts, or so on). But I think it's also because I find the possibility of distraction comforting.

  James Surowiecki

  Writing, Thinking, Use

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Kind, Harder

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• In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork.

  Ina Garten

  Summer, Winter, Light

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• So the question never comes up. I love to work with actors who I feel really confident in knowing what I'm going to get from them. And making a movie is such a risk that it's comforting to build up a good support team in production as well as cast.

  Len Wiseman

  Team, Knowing, Support

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview With Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I was just disciplined. I knew I had to get back into shape after six weeks for the film Goal II, but I cheated in the end - I wore a corset. I loved my pregnancy, I blossomed. I felt goddess-like and very secure. I found it comforting to have a little thing growing inside me, and very calming.

  Anna Friel

  Pregnancy, Goal, Growing

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.

  Jason Bateman

  Soldier, Trying, Directors

  "Toronto: Jason Bateman on Talks Directing Himself in ‘The Family Fang’". Interview with Kathy A. McDonald, variety.com. September 11, 2015.

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• "I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while." It was my turn to be quiet. "Did you take it?" "Would I be calling you if I had?" "Maybe," I said. He laughed. "True, but I'm not going to take it." "Why not?" "Friendship." "Try again," I said. "I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you." "Comforting."

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  People, Trying, Why Not

  "The Killing Dance (Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, Book 6)". Book by Laurell K. Hamilton, June 1, 1997.

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• I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

  Wess Stafford

  Half, My Time, Comfortable

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• My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Wish, May

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• But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.

  Erica Jong

  Atheist, Atheism, Care

  Erica Jong (2013). “Sappho's Leap: A Novel”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.

  Dean Koontz

  Threatening, Brooms, Feathers

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.20, Bantam

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• But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.

  Ian Mcewan

  Interesting, Liberation, Flattering

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• Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.

  Jim Butcher

  Loneliness, Home, Waiting

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.175, Penguin Group

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• The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.

  Dorothy Dix

  Life, Gratitude, Cheer

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• There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

  Don Marquis

  Time, Trouble, Times Of Trouble

  'archy does his part' (1935) 'comforting thoughts'

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• Should there be anyone who feels he is too weak to do better because of that greatest of fears, the fear of failure, there is no more comforting assurance to be had than the words of the Lord: 'My Grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them' (Ether 12:27)

  Thomas S. Monson

  Strong, Humble, Men

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• I once talked about wanting to kill myself, but I don't think I was ever really planning on doing it. It was just comforting to know that I could.

  Marc Maron

  Thinking, Planning, Knows

  "Q&A: Marc Maron on the Decline of Conversation, TV Stardom, Oligarchs, Self-Doubt & Cats". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 2, 2013.

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• Comics seemed to have a handle on things. They could sort of disarm and get control over reality. I found it very comforting to laugh.

  Marc Maron

  Reality, Laughing, Found

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• People who don't want to get on with their lives, and don't want to accept responsibility for the direction of their lives want to hang out with other people who don't want to accept responsibility or move on, and so you find that your entire culture around you are people who are just like you, because that's what's comforting.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Moving, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

  Andrew Solomon

  Differences, People, May

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• Exercise is a great leveler. It doesn't matter how rich you are, you can't just buy your way into a great body. You have to do the work. I find that comforting. It's one of the few things in life where we're all on a level playing field.

  Vinnie Tortorich

  Inspirational, Exercise, Things In Life

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• Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.

  Nora Ephron

  Food, Long, Cooking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Sep 06, 2016

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