I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and… — Howard Zehr Copy Share Image
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Closure' - reassurance for the weak-kneed that their futile anguish has been leavened by a minor illusion of being in control …… — Mark Rogerson Copy Share Image
“The things that help you sleep all the way through it. Back-breaking labor might do it; or liquor. Surely a body --… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I will use that knowledge to move to a place within myself that will give you the reassurance and confidence that I… — Nick van der Leek Copy Share Image
Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew.… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedoms,… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
Anyone who deals with the climate crisis has an internal dialogue between hope and despair, because the challenge is so huge and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I like to call amethyst the mother/healer/teacher/lover of the mineral kingdom because it is for lack of a better term an all… — David Copy Share Image
I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the… — Kenneth More Copy Share Image
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
During a heavy storm at sea a nervous woman passenger on a large liner went to the captain, seeking reassurance. "Captain," she… — James Keller Copy Share Image
“I saw the same peace in Travis’ eyes that I had witnessed only a handful of times, and it hit me that… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest.… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
It's true that over-apologizing interrupts the flow of conversation and irritates the person who has to stop and offer reassurance, like, "No,… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
If you want to freak your cat out, stare at your cat. If you want to reassure your cat, stare at your… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
“If I miss a goal, which sometimes happens when you set huge ones, I want the reassurance that I did everything I… — Jonathan Acuff Copy Share Image
A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough… — Rahul Dravid Copy Share Image
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“See? Small steps. Just take it one thing at a time and you'll be fine. Angel, I'm not going to hurt you.… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“It was a smile of total reassurance and gave all who saw it a feeling of intense well-being. Not joy, but something… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“But then a bubbling tenor voice said kindly, "Do not fear. It is a dream." The reassurance spread over him like a… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
There is no place for fear among men and women who Almighty, who do not hesitate to humble themselves in seeking divine… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me… — Heidi Murkoff Copy Share Image
Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image