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“Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect words that are somehow made imperfect when used to describe her and all that should remain unsaid about her- it is all unsupported by reason. I know that. But that enigmatic calm that attaches itself to people in the presence of reason- it's something from which I haven't been able to take comfort, not reliably, not since her.”

People Knows Should Made Reason Able Remember Used Perfect Havens Comfort Calm Imperfect Gestures Unsaid Enigmatic

Author:Elliot Perlman

“Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.”

Source: Housekeeping: A Novel

“And it really doesn't matter if we're under our desks with our hands over our heads or not, does it? No, said Mrs. Baker. It doesn't really matter. So, why are we practicing? She thought for a minute. Because it gives comfort, she said. People like to think that if they're prepared then nothing bad can really happen. And perhaps we practice because we feel as if there's nothing else we can do because sometimes it feels as if life is governed by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.”

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Book:The Wednesday Wars

Source: The Wednesday Wars

“‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.”

People Ifs Government Running Choices Liberty Economy Drink Comfort Labor Caring Debt Confusion Meat Amusement Pretense Servitude Our Choices Debt By Founding Fathers

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness... Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner.”

“It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.”

People Children Persons Feelings Body Pain Sound Cry Movement Tears Comfort Adults Increase Injustice Dare Graves Relax Unnecessary Evoke Resonance Rigidity Humiliate Crying Child

Author:Alexander Lowen

“This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.”

People Knows World Wells May Reality Seems Lying Opportunity Given Can Do Chance Simple Comfort Truth Is Cruelty Changing The World Telling The Truth Falsehood Defeated Armament

Author:Mira Grant

“The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others”

People Made Morality Comfort Profit Excuse Chosen Fairness Agony Decency Fanaticism Unspeakable Dividends

Author:Iain Banks

“That [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.”

People Important Energy Speak Cases Issues Source Comfort Anxiety Reactions Ignorant Clarity Complexity Inability Dependency Important Issues Exceptionalism American Exceptionalism

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.”

People Thinking Comfort Pity Conceit Conceited

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is.”

People Ifs Hands Light Comfort Horse

Book:Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse

Source: Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse

“I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and mystery all together that they have nowhere else. If you had that, wouldn't you want to keep it?”

People Ifs Want Important Together Wonder Mystery Comfort Fades Fade Away

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It's not so much the comfort itself as knowing there's someone who wants to take care of you.”

People Want Feelings Care Force Memories Knowing Comfort Hot Ill Take Care Chocolate Associates Pillow Blanket Satin Linen Take Care Of Me Hot Chocolate

Book:Chime

Source: Chime

“But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.”

People Feels Grief Comfort Selfish Useless Grieving

Author:Melina Marchetta

“That is my most comfortable place: close-up beauty shots! I also love to stand and speak in front of people. I can get a bit nervous while I'm speaking, but I love to touch others with my message. TV hosting with a teleprompter is also a comfort zone. I love to nail the copy quickly with the right expression and facial expression. Delivery is key!”

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Author:Kim Alexis

“Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.”

People Culture Speak Technology Comfort

Book:Doctor Faustus

Source: Doctor Faustus

“He sees the land of meaning, and one path to it, and the so-called “normal” people traveling swiftly and in comfort to the land; he does not include the shipwrecked people who arrive by devious lonely routes, and the many who dwell in the land in the beginning.”

People Doe Path Land Comfort Normal Lonely Routes Devious

Book:Faces in the water

Source: Faces in the water

“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.”

People Doors Comfort Jazz Clubs Strands Neon Neon Sign

Author:Libba Bray

“Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.”

“Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.”

People Years Might Night Knowing Planets Comfort Miserable New Year

Author:Mitch Albom

“Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.”

People Spiritual Quality Humility Comfort Simplicity Abandon Cooperation Spiritual Life Dependence Elusive

Author:Philip Yancey

“I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help.”

“I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.”

People Happiness Hate Grows Enjoy Worst Comfort One Love Noticing Serene Overlooking Hate Myself

Author:Elias Canetti

“I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.”

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Author:Leo Buscaglia

“And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.”

People Thinking Littles Girl Cities Behinds Morning Four Comfort Leaving Hungry Bread Christmas Breakfast Milk Christmas Morning

Book:Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…

Source: Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…

“Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.”

People Trying Five Fields Comfort Highest Percent Self Confidence Zone Performers Comfort Zone Ninety Percentages Discomfort

Author:Brian Tracy

“Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life.”

People Giving Facts Faces Opportunity Grows Challenges Greater Greatness Produce Birth Comfort Difficulty Adversity Ease Facts Of Life

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“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.”

“People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are.”

People Mean Use Culture Imagination Comfort Importance Tired Leisure Tire

Book:Situationism: A Compendium

Source: Situationism: A Compendium

“Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.”

People Ifs Knows Might Care Life Is Can Do Risk Special Ready Comfort Hard Times Zone About Yourself Comfort Zone Who Cares Great People Taking Risks

Author:Amy Poehler

“I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.”

People Humans Ends Happens Together Winning Lines Race Comfort Lessons Offers Dignity Aging Weather Bother Human Race Parts Of Life Indignity

Author:Diane Lane

“During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.”

People Business Comfort Zone Commerce Comfort Zone Negotiation Attacking

Author:Alan Sugar