Best 1738 quotes in «comfort quotes» category

There is no safer feeling than the comfort of sheltering from life's storms in the harbor of friendship.

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

There is one thing you know for sure, one fact that never fails to comfort you: the worst day of your life wasn't in there, in that mess. And it will do you good to remember the best day of your life wasn't in there, either. But another person brought you closer to those borders than you had been, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

There is only one real comfort and it’s not a feeling. It is the comfort of oneness.

There is real comfort in being quiet.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what merchant, what laborer ever sees a tax gatherer of the United States?

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

There's a certain comfort in being in supporting roles because it's not all on you.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

There's a sameness and comfort level you get living in a country like America.

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

There's no denying that candy is comfort food and it's affordable.

There's nothing better than having a collaborator that you have a great shorthand with and a great comfort with who's shepherding the project along. I mean, that's the best thing that can happen in cinema where there's many cooks in the kitchen.

There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.

The rise of globalization, the rise of finance capital, the elimination of the manufacturing base, the decimation of the working class, particularly in terms of those who had some comforts that approximated what the middle class had.

There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.

The roles that push you out of your comfort zones are the ones in which you learn a great deal and really empower yourself.

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

The sooner you step away from your comfort zone, the sooner you'll realize that it wasn't really all that comfortable.

The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement.

The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.

The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

The transaction will enable us to become a single source of integrated products and services that building owners want in order to optimize comfort and energy efficiency

The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.

The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you? I'm asking the questions tonight. If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it.

The ultimate comfort zone is within.

The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden's safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community.

The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.

The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.

The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.

Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.

They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.