Quotes with comfort-killing

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  • Adolf Loos The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Washington Irving There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Charlotte Brontë There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Iris Murdoch There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Buzz Aldrin There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Winston Churchill This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Lord George Byron This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Herbert Spencer Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Don Herold Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
    Don Herold
    American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist (1889 - 1966)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Charles Kingsley 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.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Rebecca West We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Earl Nightingale We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Ben Nelson We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Frank A. Clark We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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  • Bruce Sterling We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Marlin Finch Lupus We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the never-ending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.
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  • Louis de Bernieres We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Jimmy Carter We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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