Quotes with comfort-killing

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  • Denis Waitley A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Hunter S. Thompson America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Bernice Fitz-Gibbon A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
    Macys, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising
    Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
    American advertising executive
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  • Benjamin Watson All I'm saying is, is God the god who we look to for comfort during tragedies? Is he the god who can control all those things, or is he the god that we don't even trust with our daily lives... As long as there's prayer and exams, as long as there's games, there will be prayers.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Finley Peter Dunne Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Joseph Addison 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.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Katherine Mansfield I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • John Bunyan If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Charles Dickens In the exhaustless catalogue of Heaven's mercies to mankind the power we have of finding some germs of comfort in the hardest trials, must ever occupy the foremost place.
    Barnaby Rudge
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Confucius The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Budd Schulberg Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
    Budd Schulberg
    American screenwriter, television producer and novelist (1914 - 2009)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • John Jay Chapman A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • Lao-Tzu A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Boris Yeltsin A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
    Speech at a summit of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Istanbul, Turkey, as quoted in BBC World Service (19 November 1999)
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Epictetus A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Ben Shapiro After the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Obama administration steadfastly refused to say which element of the U.S. military had participated in the assault. Until Vice President Joe Biden decided to talk about it on national television, that is.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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