J. M. Roberts Quotes

I'm afraid that legislators are lulled by this comfort, ... They figure someone will fill in the gaps.

J. M. Roberts

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• Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
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• I never do anything out of my comfort zone.

  

  Danica Patrick
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  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.

  

  Yara Shahidi
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• I like stepping out of my comfort zone.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Like
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• I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Great
  • Find
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• I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Music
  • Listen
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• How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying seagulls, or how important that chestnut tree was to her, when she had never shown an interest in nature before. But once she felt like a caged bird, how she longed for it. Even just the thought of the open air gave her comfort, but she kept all these feelings to herself.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Important
  • She
  • Nature

• The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

  

  Alan Alda
  • City
  • Place
  • Comfort

• Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Comfort
  • Familiar
  • Familiarity

• The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Death
  • Belief
  • Self

• It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Book
  • Way
  • Christmas

• If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

  

  Eamon Duffy
  • History
  • Failure
  • Knowing

• Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Whether we love humanity or not, we must realize that we are part of it. My future depends entirely on the future of humanity, and so I am compelled to take care of humanity. That is why being compassionate is actually in my own best interest. And a symptom of my own peace of mind is that I can share comfort with others around me.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Future

• The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Comfort
  • Element
  • Compulsion

• May not undermine the president as he leads us into war, and they may not give comfort to our adversaries, but they come mighty close.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • May
  • War
  • President

• I'm still learning to be the best actor I can be, and I have a long way to go to get to the level I would like to be at. My focus is still 100% acting acting acting. Once I hit a point where I feel very comfortable as an actor - because you can never stop learning, I don't care how comfortable you get, you can never stop learning - but once I hit a point where I can get that comfort level of taking on the task of directing and having the confidence in myself to have people's respect when I give them direction, that's definitely something I want to do someday.

  

  Sean Faris
  • Focus
  • Care
  • Acting

• Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Realization
  • Ahimsa

• On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Job

• I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• I'm afraid that legislators are lulled by this comfort, ... They figure someone will fill in the gaps.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Comfort
  • Legislators
  • Lulled