Best Comfortable Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 9

“Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak, or as a peppery morsel when your palate was in expectation of a mild pudding.”

Feelings Comfortable Expectations Hot Ice Smoking Midst Cream Ice Cream Steak Pun Palate Pudding

Book:Memoir and Letters

Source: Memoir and Letters

“[On religion:] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the heat and the cold,' and then it ends by becoming a strait-jacket.”

Men Kind Said Ends Religion Nice Cold Becoming Comfortable Heat Jackets Garments Solace

Author:Agnes Sligh Turnbull

“It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.”

Men Mind Reality Speak Easy Effects Words Of Wisdom Comfortable Distance Details

Author:Lord Acton

“To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.”

Language Sides Term Class Middle Policy Safe Comfortable Tasks Middle Class Middle Of The Road

Author:Christian Morgenstern

“It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.”

People Way Comfortable Happy People

Author:Jane Addams

“They're willing to let Matt sit and wait until they believe he's ready and I can't do the best I'm capable of doing. I'm completely comfortable with that.”

Believe I Can Waiting Willing Ready Comfortable Capable Nfl Do The Best

Author:Kurt Warner

“I'm really not vocal and expressive, but I'm starting to get more comfortable to open up.”

Comfortable Starting Nfl Vocal Expressive

Author:Adrian Peterson

“Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.”

Able Religion Comfortable Come Up Quantum Mechanic Physicist Intuitive Quantum Mechanics

Author:Taner Edis

“The white Aylesbury duck is, and deservedly, a universal favourite. Its snowy plumage and comfortable comportment make it a credit to the poultry-yard, while its broad and deep breast, and its ample back, convey the assurance that your satisfaction will not cease at its death.”

White Food Comfortable Universal Cooking Satisfaction Credit Cease Breasts Culinary Broads Ducks Favourite Yards Assurance Snowy Poultry

Book:Mrs Beeton's Household Management

Source: Mrs Beeton's Household Management

“Some staff doesn't work well under pressure. So I make sure that my staff is very comfortable. I've got a bad reputation for being quite callous when it comes to culling staff. They are selected personally by me. I socialize with all my staff and they know me well and I consider them friends and we travel overseas together.”

Knows Wells Together Comfortable Pressure Reputation Know Me Staff Selected Under Pressure Callous Bad Reputation Culling

Author:Charles Teo

“If you're comfortable on a horse, you're comfortable on a horse. It's like being on a motorbike.”

Ifs Comfortable Horse Motorbike

Author:Morgan Freeman

“When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.”

Song Audience Fronts Depends Comfortable Harder Tiny Honestly Arrangements

Author:Alicia Keys

“I've never worn a dress shirt that's been comfortable. I've always just worn dress shoes. On more than one occasion, I've heard that a champion should dress like a champion. But I'm a champion because of who I am. Who I am is not that guy. If everybody wears three-piece suits, everyone looks the same.”

Ifs Should Looks Guy Three Pieces Heard Comfortable Dresses Shoes Who I Am Suits Occasions Shirts Champion Worn That Guy I Am Who I Am

Author:CM Punk

“When I'm not working I just like to be comfortable: I love black, nothing tight, no heels, no make-up - it's nice to be able to breathe!”

Able Black Nice Comfortable Breathe Heels

Author:Eva Green

“A good stylist knows that and is not going to push you to wear something that you're not comfortable with.”

Knows Comfortable Stylist

Author:Courtney Love

“I know that having the perfect body doesn't fix all your problems, or make you love yourself more. To me, it's all about being comfortable in your own skin.”

Knows Problem Body Perfect Love You Comfortable Skins Love Yourself Love Yourself More Comfortable In Your Own Skin

Author:America Ferrera

“The Internet gave a place like, 'Oh, I'll do whatever I want now. Nobody's going to see it anyways.' Oddly enough, people started watching and I got more confident, comfortable with it.”

People Want Enough Internet Comfortable

Author:Shane Dawson

“I think experimentation with other stuff is great. My real focus has been more-so trying to create a sound that I can build upon and get really comfortable with. I think almost everything is experimentation 'til you find what it is that your sound is.”

Thinking Trying Has Beens I Can Real Stuff Sound Focus Comfortable Get Real Experimentation

Author:Hoodie Allen

“I have a full life off the road. I was never in it just for the money or the career. That's why I'm comfortable with myself. I know who I am out of the spotlight.”

Knows Careers Comfortable Who I Am Spotlight Full Life

Author:Dion DiMucci

“I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.”

Feels My Own Comfortable Skins Turning 40

Author:Kate Moss

“In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.”

Ifs Men Needs Feels Writing Doe Matter Painting Easier Comfortable Profession Dozen Urgent

Author:Malcolm Cowley

“Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.”

Humans Today Science Desire Strong Race Psychology Subjects Comfortable Regard Myth Physics Human Race Customs Insignificant

Book:The decline and fall of science

Source: The decline and fall of science

“I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.”

Thinking Art Realizing Emotion Comfortable Art Is Innocent Vulnerable Relinquishing Relinquishing Control

Author:K. D. Lang

“I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.”

Use Comfortable Logic Conclusion Deceived Concluding Being Deceived

Author:Neil Armstrong

“Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.”

Social Grace Fool Genius Comfortable Manners Companion Impunity Social Graces

Book:The Amy Vanderbilt complete book of etiquette: a guide to contemporary living

Source: The Amy Vanderbilt complete book of etiquette: a guide to contemporary living

“Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.”

Knows Comfortable Brilliant Compare Neurotic Brooklyn Manhattan Complacent

Book:The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

Source: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

“Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.”

Ifs Sin Waste Comfortable Uncomfortable Leisure Righteous Idleness

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“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.”

“To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.”

Mind Wells Eye Study Risk Involved Comfortable Consequence Oneself Tone Rejects Censorship Dogma Exes

Book:Parthian Words

Source: Parthian Words

“All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth.”

People World Writing Wells Political Lying Pay Comfortable Happenings Concern Claims Quaker

Author:Storm Jameson

“What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.”

Men Games Feet Comfortable Various Kicks

Author:Grace Paley

“We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.”

Source: Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe

“I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.”

Felt White Streets Anxiety Comfortable Hot Fifty Discomfort Catching

Book:This Demi-paradise: A Westchester Diary

Source: This Demi-paradise: A Westchester Diary

“As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live.”

Way Different Self Whole Black Identity Acceptance Comfortable Aspect Committed Feminist Sexuality Meaningful Oppression Destructive Ingredients Way To Live Pluck

Author:Audre Lorde

“There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.”

People Want Facts Past Land Security Comfortable Track Mistrust Invoke

Author:Robert Kennedy

“In the rush of complex modern living, we have a tendency to laugh at the 'bring-Papa-his-pipe-and-slippers' approach to marriage - but most men are more than a little wistful at its demise. A man dreams of home as a haven and his wife as a romantic, fragrant creature whose most important goal in life is making him comfortable.”

Men Littles Important Home Dream Life Is Goal Laughing Wife Modern Havens Creatures Comfortable Approach Complexes Tendencies Pipe Life Goal Demise Papa Slippers

Author:Arlene Dahl

“People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.”

People Ifs May Long Running Change Situation Comfortable Long Runs Discomfort

Book:We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader

Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader

“Guys make me feel secure and comfortable when I'm scared or need attention. They bring stability. And affection. And fun. And drama. You learn so much from a boyfriend. It's hard to put into words, I guess.”

Needs Feels Hard Guy Fun Attention Drama Comfortable Scared Affection Secure Stability

Author:Hilary Duff

“People get comfortable with the way you are—they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you.”

People Knows Way Persons Change Opinion Health Comfortable Losing Weight

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.”

Ifs Thinking World Kind Animal Travel Comfortable Clothes Dresses Zoos Disneyland Artifacts Quaint Flora

Author:Alison Lurie

“It's not always as comfortable blazing the trail as it is walking on it.”

Walking Comfortable Trails Pioneers Blazing

Author:Joan Lunden

“Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.”

Mean Spiritual Alive Security Comfortable Expecting

Book:Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

Source: Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

“Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.”

Life Persons Sometimes Whole Known Like You Comfortable Whole Life Clicks

Book:Halo

Source: Halo

“Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.”

Feels Wells Long Has Beens Hard Fit Cost Comfortable Mask Shed

Book:Being-in-dreaming

Source: Being-in-dreaming

“When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.”

Source: Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life

“I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Dream Action Creativity Creative Comfortable Details My Way Unwilling Hallucinations Just A Dream Thinking Things Through

Author:Aubrey McClendon

“Be yourself. The happiest and most successful people are those who feel the most comfortable with themselves.”

People Feels Successful Comfortable Being Yourself Successful People

Author:Leighton Meester

“Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.”

Use Might Today Easy Office Comfortable Productivity Familiar Killers Email

Author:Ryan Holmes

“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.”

Way Giving Littles Together Chance Nice Comfortable Pages Moved Notes Touched Ceremony

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.”

Men Born Feet Scene Comfortable Fooling Around

Book:Life is a Banquet

Source: Life is a Banquet

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