“Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.” — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting? — David Alan Harvey Copy Share Image
I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it. — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
“It’s comforting to me,” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.” — Keith Hollihan Copy Share Image
“That's a very comforting response, Oliver. Of course I can trust you implicitly when all you care about is using me for… — Susan Dennard Copy Share Image
If I was comforting the Islam nation for its crisis of Pakistan's earthquake, I today congratulate it and bless the Islamic victory… — Ayman al-Zawahiri Copy Share Image
Some of the most comforting words are 'me too'. That moment when you find out that your struggle is also someone else's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Go to sleep," he says softly. His hand brushes the lose strands of my hair off my forehead. Unlike the staged kisses… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Eugene looked with passionate devotion at that grand old head, calm, wise and comforting. In a moment of vision, he saw that,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“One ought to have some sort of transcendent realization that the world exists because the gods are trapped in the same abyss… — Anaea Lay Copy Share Image
“He hurt everywhere, so at least he must be alive. Another comforting thought because, despite everything, he wanted to be alive. It… — John Martel Copy Share Image
There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Yet again I feel you linger, your presence is almost comforting. Your familiar greet, a mere whisper. Just to let me know… — Nolan Le Roux Copy Share Image
“I thought everything I knew about you might have been a lie, but since meeting him and your parents, I've realized that… — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image
“I think someone gave me candy when I was younger, someone whose face I don't remember; a blank face from my nightmares. … — kimber nilsson Copy Share Image
I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a day… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“There was something so comforting in the certainty that someone knew about your biggest flaws and was still willing to stick around.” — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the effort to give good and comforting answers to the young questioners whom we love, we very often arrive at good… — Ruth Goode Copy Share Image
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“How very comforting. If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“And he’s not going to kill me,” I added, scrunching my nose. “I don’t think.” “Real comforting.” “At least, if he does,… — Kandi Steiner Copy Share Image
“It is so wonderful and comforting to know that when everyone else only sees our faults, God still sees our possibilities.” — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“His lips are against my ear and I feel the warmth of his body surrounding me, caging me in, comforting me.” — Collette West Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's something very comforting about a film unfolding more or less as you expect it to. — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
“That was one of the shitty aspects of being single. No one to touch, no warm body to cling to on a… — Lucy Lennox Copy Share Image
I find anger so comforting. It's like a blanket made of unresolved issues, but it's a blanket none the less. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
“There is something comforting about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'? — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the physical world we know, nothing lasts forever – a thought I find strangely comforting.” — Linda Gillard Copy Share Image
That all of God’s men are immortal until God is through with them is a wonderful comforting thought for today. And when… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
