Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

Jason Bateman

It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.

Jane Smiley

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

Don Wallace

We are lucky to have two strong lawmakers like Simpson and Peterson looking out for America's sugar producers and the policy on which they depend. Some sugar policy opponents want to put sugar farmers out of business, and it's comforting to know that our elected representatives will not let that happen.

Eckhart Tolle

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Jane Kaczmarek

There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.

Bill Watterson

Few things are less comforting than a tiger who's up too late.

Dean Koontz

The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.

Craig Ferguson

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

C. S. Lewis

Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.

Jean Kelly

We have no idea yet how long it's going to take to get rid of it. We're working on all kinds of different ways to get rid of debris, but we won't know if any of them are valid until we see what we've got to get rid of.

Agnes Repplier

When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

Agnes Repplier

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

Aasif Mandvi

Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.

Aaron Sorkin

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.

Charlotte Bronte

as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.

Charlotte Bronte

If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

Charlotte Bronte

Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.

Steven Wright

We have run the hydro system harder than it was supposed to be run this year.

Michael Hirschorn

The pond is getting pretty well fished, and booking (someone fresh) is getting harder and harder, ... somebody who is just depressing.

Don Samuel

When you tell a lie, it's always harder to remember what you said.

Holly Lisle

Writing, for all that it's harder than nursing ever was, is also more joyous and more fun and a lot less dangerous. And the major themes of my life have become the major themes of my writing, too - so it has all worked out pretty well.

Brandon Jennings

The harder you work when nobody’s watching the less you bleed when it’s time to perform.

Richie Sexson

We're looking for reasons to keep playing hard. We're trying to be a spoiler. But it is harder to play when you know you're out of it.

Charles Grodin

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

Tina Fey

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

Tyler Murovich

When I hear stuff like that it reminds to work harder and stay in the weight room.