Quotes with comfort

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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Alan Cohen Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Brad Henry Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Brett Hoebel Food is a lot of people's therapy - when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It's releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.
    Brett Hoebel
    American personal trainer
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  • Brad Feld For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Matthew Prior From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Cyril Connolly Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • William Shakespeare He receives comfort like cold porridge.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • William Butler Yeats I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Adele I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Charles Dickens I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Lord George Byron I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • George Eliot I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Jean Cocteau If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • William Somerset Maugham If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Cosby If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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