“When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.” KnowsRoomsFantasyDoorsComfortLuxuryHotelLocksSecrecyHotel RoomsReassurance Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches.” PeopleKnowsMayDifferentLastsMovingCoursesHouseWishLevelsRoomsEnvironmentGreaterDoorsComfortAmbitionRichesEnormousSettlingGentlemanSurroundDifferent Levels Author:Chris Murray
“[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.” GivingDoePhilosophyDoorsMaterialsDependsComfortThrownContemptImmenseSkirtsSkepticEminence Book:Modes and Morals Source: Modes and Morals
“Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America!” KnowsBigsAmericaDealsDoorsWallComfortWheelsImmigrantsSpokesShoreSteelWireBig DealAutomobileNobody KnowsPuerto RicoRicoKnobsChromium Author:Stephen Sondheim
“The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national character.... A climate which permits labor out-of-doors every month in the year and which requires industry to secure comfort--to provide food, shelter, clothing, fuel, etc.--is the very climate which secures the highest civilization.” PeopleYearsCharacterHomePerfectDoorsMonthsIndustryComfortCivilizationRepublicanHighestIdealsLaborClimateSecureFuelEtcPermitClothingsShelterOhio Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“Of all the facts I daily live with, there's none more comforting than this; If I have two rooms, one dark, the other light, and I open the door between them, the dark room becomes lighter without the light one becoming darker. I know this is no headline, but it's a marvelous footnote; and comforts me in that.” IfsKnowsTwoFactsLightDarkRoomsDoorsBecomingComfortMarvelousComfortingHeadlinesLightersDark RoomFootnotes Author:Gerhard E Frost
“I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.” PeopleThinkingMenBelieveGamesI BelieveStuffDoorsComfortInstinctDinnerChessOpeningThese DaysGentlemanBuyingGood ManChess GameOpening Doors Author:Anna Kendrick
“The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.” MomentsLiteratureDoorsConfidenceComfortMindfulnessBlessedFinalsTerrorOpeningPrivacyClosingJoyous Author:Andy Rooney
“At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.” IfsKnowsMomentsDifficultKnow HowDoorsComfortTasteNotionAbundanceWithin ReachDifficult MomentsApricots Author:Isabel Allende
“In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed tight. My fears evaporate when the automatic doors shush open.” FeelsDoorsComfortHospitalsCompetenceExpertiseSupplies Book:What is the What Source: What is the What
“You say the gentleman I knew has been replaced. How I wish I could offer better comfort than to say that no matter how you have changed, you wil be welcomed when you return. Do what you must. If it helps you to endure, put the feelings away for now, and lock the door. Perhaps someday we'll air them out together.” IfsHas BeensMatterHelpingFeelingsTogetherWishDoorsAirChangedReturnComfortOffersEndureGentlemanSomedayLocksReplacedYou Have Changed Author:Lisa Kleypas
“After a while, footsteps sounded on the flagstones outside and there was a gentle tap at the door. Of course, one of them would come. So close were we, the seven of us, that no childhood injury went unnoticed, no slight, real or imagined, went unaddressed, no hurt was endured without comfort.” RealCoursesHurtDoorsChildhoodComfortSevenGentleInjuryFootstepsUnnoticed Book:Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy Source: Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy
“He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.” PeopleDoorsComfortJazzClubsStrandsNeonNeon Sign Author:Libba Bray
“Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.” PeopleIfsHumansLongSelfMightPainSufferingOur LivesDoorsSorrowComfortAdversitySaintEaseMasteryDistressBeing HumanAnguishSelf MasteryPhysical PainBenefactorsLong Suffering Author:Spencer W. Kimball