“The more chances you get, the more comfortable you feel. I?m ready to go out there if something happens. I?ll feel comfortable if I am ever called on.” IfsFeelsHappensChanceReadyComfortComfortableThings Happen Author:Doug Flutie
“Sometimes I think I'm more comfortable onstage than I am in my own room. When I get onstage, it's kind of like your chance to let go and be something that you're not maybe. It's your time to dream.” ThinkingKindSometimesDreamChanceMy OwnRoomsLike YouLetting GoComfortable Author:Britney Spears
“It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us. Chance and historical contingency give the world of life most of its glory and fascination. I sit here happy to be alive and sure that some reason must exist for "why me?" Or the earth might have been totally covered with water, and an octopus might now be telling its children why the eight-legged God of all things had made such a perfect world for cephalopods.” WorldGivingYearsChildrenHas BeensMadeReasonSeemsMightEarthFormOrderUniverseWaterChancePerfectAliveAtheismComfortableGloryAll ThingsClaimsHistoricalEightBillionsHeightCoveredMight Have BeenFascinationHubrisA Perfect WorldAbodeWhy MeContingencyOctopusHappy To Be Alive Book:An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
“How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingHumansDoeEnoughProblemLeftSocialDifficultJusticeChanceHuman BeingsCompassionComfortableTreatsSocial JusticeSelfishTyrannyResistancePityTrustedCoercionTolerableUnselfishnessDifficult Problems Author:Rose Macaulay
“There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.” PeopleHumansWellsLongEndsHandsChancePowerfulOur LivesFatePlayerComfortablePermanentGood PeoplePrivilegedTwistsHuman HistoryChances AreBad PeopleTwist Of FateRandom ChancePrivileged Life Author:Jeff Greenfield
“So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.” WayGivingLittlesTogetherChanceNiceComfortablePagesMovedNotesTouchedCeremony Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“Fashion's about taking chances, it's about taking risks, and just doing it the way you feel comfortable doing it. If you do that, people will respect it more.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsChanceRiskFashionComfortableTake A ChanceTaking Risks Author:Dwyane Wade
“Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in a way that feels comfortable and familiar can restrict seriously their chance for development.” PeopleWayNeedsFeelsSometimesLastsChanceLearningStyleDevelopmentComfortableFamiliarLearners Book:Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher Source: Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher