Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

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

Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every comfort and privilege that is not incompatible with the continued existence of the relations between them.

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.

I'm always most comfortable in the studio. It's my comfort zone. I love being there, and I love making records.

Gretchen Rubin

Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food.

Kurt Vonnegut

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

Bo Burnham

When life gets you down, make a comforter!

Edward Gibbon

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Edward Livingston

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

Antawn Jamison

We have to give a better showing than that, ... I'm not worried about the offense. We know we can score. Give them credit, they hit some open shots, but we have to do a better job of getting a team out of their comfort zone, stopping their runs early. I know we were missing some guys and we're still trying to find ourselves but we have to play better than that.

Moran Atias

Whenever there's a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I'm going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.

Charles Dickens

There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

Bill Watterson

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

Michael Keaton

If I'm going to meditate, there is a little church up in Montecito, California. It's an old Spanish mission, actually. I find it comforting in there.

Watch As Good As It Gets, with Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt. It shows how much better life can be when you let go of your mental comfort zones.

What they want is a substantial degree of comfort, ... We're working on trying to provide a necessary degree of comfort.

We labour soon, we labour late, / To feed the titled knave, man; / And a' the comfort we're to get / Is that ayont the grave, man.

Kate Forsyth

Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.

Curt Young

Mainly, he puts every pitcher in a comfort zone.

We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.

Jane Kaczmarek

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

Kate Reardon

It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.

Georges Bernanos

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

Blaise Pascal

Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.

John Owen

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

Charles Spurgeon

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

Deborah Roberts

If you don't ever get out of your comfort zone you will never make it to the end zone!.

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.

Connie Sellecca

It is really hard for me to get out of my comfort zone.

She felt it a threat. Everybody has a different comfort level with alligators.

Tim Salmon

Since then, I've dealt with it and if I have to move on, I'm ready. It'll be sad to leave the comforts of home out there, all the family and friends, the fans, the community, but from the standpoint of playing, you have to realize people move on.