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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Never and never, my girl riding far and near In the land of the hearthstone tales, and spelled asleep, Fear or believe… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Let her arm go and pray she has no bruise,” a familiar voice said in a low angry tone. I shuddered from… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love,… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Desari reached up to trace his lips. ‘You have a perfect mouth, Julian. An amazingly perfect mouth.’ He arched an eyebrow at… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth… — Erich Fromm 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 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
You reach sometimes when you're at the lowest and times when you don't know if you are going to play again or… — Jack Butland 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
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
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
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
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
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
There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The thought gave me reassurance for a split-second - until I saw the danger in it. The power to make me feel… — Kate Morgenroth Copy Share Image
“George put his hand on top of Beatrice's and felt the warmth of both the woman and her hound pulsing through his… — Mette Ivie Harrison Copy Share Image
I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“And as he reached for William's leg, the way a small child will reach for its mother's, there welled up through a… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
The amount of military force necessary to provide reassurance depends on how dangerous people think the world is. And that I think… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
