Famous Quotes & Sayings

First of all, we like to play defense. And we practice it every day. We don't want the other team to get into any comfort zone. If they get comfortable, they'll make their shots.

Five or six months of good markets give people increasing comfort and courage.

Joanna Moore

Feel free to touch him. I got a lot of comfort last night out of sitting here and just touching him.

There's really not a lot I can say at this point. The decision was made ... after lengthy consultations with our physicians and several others. We were unable to reach a comfort level to move forward with the trade. At this time we felt we had to go in this direction.

Pankaj Mishra

As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.

Gordon Bethune

Continental now has a fleet plan that makes us competitive in every market well into the next century. This latest order will reduce our total cost while providing the latest in technology and comfort to our customers.

Do something that takes you out of your comfort zone but makes you feel good about yourself. Give yourself the gift of feeling good about who you are.

Dawn Staley

You'd think you would go in and see the crying. They're not like that; they're very positive. I wasn't anticipating that. I thought I was going to have to comfort people. But they let us know exactly what went on, (that) they were out of a tough situation and were on to something else that could give them a little hope.

We give the (teddy bears) to them to hold, we consider them to be comfort things.

Scott Erickson

We wanted to comfort our customers around the world that we are in this for the long term. It makes sense to really publicly show our commitment to the platform.

Jon Meacham

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

It was all about comfort. She feels very comfortable there and she has a great opportunity to go in and play significant minutes.

Charles Dickens

These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.

I've been doing this my whole life. It's all I've ever known. This is more of a comfort zone for me.

It would have been a lot more comforting to see greater strength in the ex-auto component than in the headline figure.

I used my regular locker from when I was a Lion. Any comfort zone you can find.

We just tell people we were runners-up. But you're definitely going to look back at it. That's just part of coaching. It's comforting to know that we were there from a competition standpoint but irritating to know that we were up by 16 points in the first half.

We just go with the flow. We want to disrupt the things that they do well and the things they're comfortable with. From a defensive point of view, we want them to do things out of their comfort zone.

We will not flip the switch until we receive some information that gives us comfort we will not be putting Vermonters in jeopardy.

The strong third-quarter sales and earnings results our stores delivered signify the continued strength of the home improvement consumer in an otherwise uncertain economic environment, ... ... Demographic and societal trends continue to provide longer-term opportunity for our company as Americans increase their focus on the comforts of home.

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

Rick Warren

God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.

Owen Wilson

Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.

Paullina Simons

He sent you to redeem me, to comfort me, and to heal me—and that’s just so far,” he added with a smile.

Rachel Bilson

I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.

Peter Zumthor

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.

Phillips Brooks

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

Thomas Hood

Comfort and indolence are cronies.

Thomas S. Monson

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.

Sandra Lee

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

Samuel Rutherford

It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible.

Vance Havner

Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

Richard Dawkins

There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.