Reassuring Quotes - Page 5

• The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or what have you. As a matter of fact, the truly dishonest man will last longer in college -teaching or the ministry than he will in the business world.

  Benjamin A. Rogge

  Teaching, College, Men

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• I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is.

  Bob Hope

  Actors, Oscars, Really Great

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Writing, Doubt, Sound

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1961). “From a Logical Point of View: 9 Logico-philosophical Essays”, p.26, Harvard University Press

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• A knowledgeable physical therapist can slowly build up patients' confidence by reassuring them that there is no structural problem and reminding them of the physiologic reason for the pain.

  John E. Sarno

  Pain, Patient, Problem

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• Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

  Fredric Jameson

  Mass Culture, Games, Imperialism

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.

  Katie Price

  Insecure, Needs, Persons

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• There is someone for everyone, i'nt there. That's always my thing. And it's reassuring I think.

  Karl Pilkington

  Thinking

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of each other, a terror life obscures but never ceases to justify. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Taken, Talking

  The House in Paris pt. 1, ch. 2 (1935)

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• History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

  Dick Cavett

  Longevity, Lasting, Subjects

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• To believe you're being psychically attacked gives you an understanding of your illness that no Western doctor can provide; this can be reassuring when you've exhausted the Western doctor tool kit, and the doctors are sending you to acupuncturists for pain relief.

  Heidi Julavits

  Pain, Believe, Doctors

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• Walking through the Capitol Building gives you a sense of how it all began here. It was reassuring to see how restrained it was. It was very humble in a way.

  Greg Lake

  Humble, Giving, Way

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• There are certain directors where you know you're going to be good or you're not going to be there. There are people where you kind of know that if you miss the mark then it'll probably not be in the movie and that's very reassuring.

  Christopher Walken

  People, Missing, Directors

  Source: the-talks.com

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• I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability. It's huge. It's comforting. And it's reassuring. To be part of something in this world that's constantly changing like baseball, it's awesome to have your hope anchored in something that's so stable.

  Matt Diaz

  Baseball, Careers, League

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I think what President [Barack] Obama has done is to chart a steady course. When I was there, the first four years we had a lot of cleanup to do. We inherited a lot of bad feelings from the [George W.] Bush administration, and much of what I spent my time doing was traveling around the world reassuring friends and allies.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Years, Feelings

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• [ Being director] is really reassuring to me that it's just about who is right for that role and less about if you ace the audition. It's just about getting to know people, not about who's a better actor a lot of the time. It's about who fits that particular suit, you know?

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Suits You, People, Auditions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everyone is walking around with these self doubts, so there's something reassuring about that. And self-doubt in one or a few areas doesn't mean that you have generally low self-esteem. And you have the power to get yourself out of feeling that way.

  Amy Cuddy

  Self Esteem, Mean, Feelings

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

  Jean Kerr

  Baby, Party, Alive

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

  Joan Osborne

  Spiritual, Connected

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• It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.

  Claire Danes

  Self, People, Judging

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.

  America Ferrera

  Triumph, World, Pretty Picture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Nature, Real

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.287

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• One thing about religious truths is that we have to take them on faith, and faith needs reassurance. What’s more reassuring than noticing that some other people, whom you admire, are so certain that it’s all true that they’re willing to go the ultimate mile?

  Rodney Stark

  Religious, People, Atheism

  "A Double Take on Early Christianity". Interview with Mike Aquilina, touchstonemag.com. January 2000.

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• It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good feeling, a good vibe about it.

  Thom Yorke

  Feelings, Trying, Way

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. August 16, 2006.

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• Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Fun, Language, Dictionary

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• I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be a jerk or, perhaps worse, rather common. Now I half expect this reaction and even find it a little reassuring, maybe even uplifting. Isn't it amazing that somebody like that could produce such and such.

  John Allen Paulos

  Uplifting, Science, Half

  John Allen Paulos (2013). “A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper”, p.86, Hachette UK

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