Comforts Quotes

223 quotes by 197 authors

[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the… — Henry Adams
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is… — C.S. Lewis
If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying… — Emma Goldman
Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave all his life… — Sylvia Plath
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. — Mahatma Gandhi
If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find. — John Churton Collins
I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up,… — Francis Ford Coppola
They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts. — Matthew Henry
Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when… — Dalai Lama
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. — Hedy Lamarr
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day. — Ramakrishna
When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as… — Ratan Tata
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. — Barbara Tuchman
Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work… — Ethel Waters
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story?… — Diane Setterfield
So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified… — Thomas Pynchon
In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more… — John McCain
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer… — Mahatma Gandhi
God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He… — John Piper

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