Comfortable Quotes - page 4

No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that's what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. But I am not afraid they are going to break my spirit. (Theodore Kaczynski)
If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
You have to be comfortable in what you're wearing. View quote
Nicole Richie
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers. View quote
Arianna Huffington
American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror. View quote
Betty Friedan
If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk. View quote
Amy Tan
Here, I'll practice on you. Mom. I have something to tell you. I'm undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I'm here to tell you that the undead are just like you and me. Well, okay. Possibly more like me than you. View quote
Cassandra Clare
But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older. View quote
George Clooney
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility. View quote
Octavia Butler
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 a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working. (James Van Allen)
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time. View quote
Edith Wharton
Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men. View quote
Joss Whedon
Death is a great tragedy...a profound loss...I don't accept it...I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death. View quote
Ray Kurzweil
The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room. View quote
Horace Walpole
If you feel comfortable, and you feel happy, and successful at your job, then that's success. You define that as success, then that's success. Success is not a general thing. It's a personal thing. It's a personal attribute. View quote
Lupe Fiasco
History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate. View quote
David Brin
For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart. View quote
Morton Feldman
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. View quote
Joyce Brothers
The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The wizards represent all that the true "muggle" most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit! (J. K. Rowling)
I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really. View quote
Treat Williams
It's like people inviting you to come along to a church service or an amateur orchestra. They're hoping that you'll join. People are recruiters at heart, you know. It makes them feel more comfortable to see the ranks of their particular enthusiasm swelling. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at 1 g until we arrive at our destination. It would take a day to get to Mars, a week and a half to Pluto, a year to the Oort Cloud, and a few years to the nearest stars. View quote
Carl Sagan