Comfort Quotes
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Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.
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I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, and my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.
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The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
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Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.
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The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.
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A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.
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How wonderful is ritual, what comfort in dark times!
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When you look at the 'Roseannes' and the 'Will and Graces' - when those reboots or sequels or whatever you want to call them are well-executed and have a fresh angle that's relevant, it's a big, warm comfort hug to the audience.
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But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you wind up in a job that is slowly killing your soul and you're allowing that to happen. Comfort can be a very, very dangerous thing.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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So long as we use comfort and security as our criteria of success, we will fear our own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs us into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable.
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Leadership transitions require us to move out of our comfort zone.
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Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.
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To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved.
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A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now but look through this veil and see the possibility of love; you're sad now but look through to the other side and see happiness. Absolute composure to a complete mess - it happens so quickly, all in the blink of an eye.
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There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.
