Comfort Quotes - page 2

When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work. (Keegan-Michael Key)
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit. View quote
John Updike
If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned. View quote
George Sutherland
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. View quote
Joseph Addison
A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour. View quote
Simon Conway Morris
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. View quote
Charles Kingsley
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort. View quote
Jane Austen
Society in shipwreck is comfort to all. View quote
Publilius Syrus
But is there any comfort to be found Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say. (William Butler Yeats)
The following general definition of an animal a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort. View quote
Denis Diderot
'What is good for a bootless bene' With these dark words begins my tale And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail. View quote
William Wordsworth
To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. View quote
Peter McWilliams
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. View quote
Brian Tracy
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. View quote
Winston Churchill
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. View quote
Aldous Huxley
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. View quote
Pope John Paul II
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. (Basil of Caesarea)
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens. View quote
Anne McCaffrey
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually. View quote
Martin Seligman
Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run. View quote
Phyllis Diller