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Comforts Quotes (page 17)

Arthur C. Clarke quote: "Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity."
Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity. Arthur C. Clarke
There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached. Hunter S. Thompson
None of us will become perfect in a day or a month or a year. We will not accomplish it in lifetime, but we can begin now, starting with our more obvious weaknesses and gradually converting them to strengths as we go forward with our lives. this quest may be a long one: in fact, it will be lifelong. It may be fraught with many mistakes, with falling down and getting back up again. And it will take much effort. But we must not sell ourselves short. We must make a little extra effort. We would... Gordon B. Hinckley
Dodie Smith quote: "Stew's so comforting on a rainy day."
Stew's so comforting on a rainy day. Dodie Smith
I want to be, if I can, as sure of the world--the real world--around me as is possible. Now, you can only attain that to a certain degree, but I want the greatest degree of control. I've never involved myself in narcotics of any kind, I don't smoke, and I don't drink because that can easily just fuzz the edges of my rationality--fuzz the edges of my reasoning powers--and I want to be as aware as I possibly can. That means giving up a lot of fantasies that might be comforting in some ways, but... James Randi
Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him. Kate DiCamillo
It’s well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced. Anne Bronte
The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves. Norbert Wiener
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. Barbara Pym
We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them, and drives us further apart. Barack Obama
When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable. Dean Koontz
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "It's more comfortable standing still thinking of nothing."
It's more comfortable standing still thinking of nothing. J. R. R. Tolkien
[...] certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable. Charles Dickens
You see, ?ve heard of a man whose friend had been imprisoned and who slept on the floor of his room every night in order not to enjoy a comfort of which his friend had been deprived. Albert Camus
And thou, good soul, who sufferest the same distress as he endured once, draw comfort from his sorrows; and let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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