Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There was something very comforting about him, and I was not sure if it was his easy manner or his complete immunity… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and… — Michael Flanders Copy Share Image
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Stories have always been incredibly comforting and can help illuminate things that are hard to understand other wise. — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“let us sleep," he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It's something that is very comforting. Just the process of them moving throughout their stages of early childhood. Learning to walk, learning… — Jake Arrieta Copy Share Image
The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“She turned her head, only to be met with the softest, warmest belly of Little Bee, who had curved her tiny body… — Nadia El-Fassi Copy Share Image
And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
It's a lot easier to make a living as a writer in Hollywood than it was probably 10 years ago, though there's… — Ed Brubaker Copy Share Image
Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I think people like difference. When you walk out the door in New York City, in a mixed-use neighborhood like the Village,… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for… — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes difficulty clarifies things. And sometimes realizing that the road you’ve chosen is a demanding one gives you the courage to stay… — Simcha Fisher Copy Share Image
“She has a scent that is familiar and comforting, like all the things you wish you could take with you on your… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I believe in a God of some kind, in some sort of higher being. Personally I find it very comforting. — Peter Kay Copy Share Image
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress. — James Randi Copy Share Image
“He'd been old, and I'd been little, but still, it seemed wrong that someone so comforting in his dailiness could simply stop… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
Walking alone, just thinking - that's treatment, man. That's the most comforting rehab I've known. — Tyrann Mathieu Copy Share Image
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as… — Maija Haavisto Copy Share Image
The comforting thing for Australian actors is that there's a strong community in L.A. as well - it's almost like you swap… — Elizabeth Debicki Copy Share Image
“You have no reason to show shame. Sometimes our spirit weeps. When it does you must work at comforting it, and then… — P.C. Cast Copy Share Image
I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“God was, to me, a lovely dream, a brave make-believe daddy who provided comforting answers to those who couldn't bear the prevailing… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Most of my food memories are of my Nan cooking Sunday dinners - roasts of meat with lots of vegetables. I suppose… — April Bloomfield Copy Share Image
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
