Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. … Male strength — the desire to be cradled again? … I’d love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I’d start...

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can’t get at you.

But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

It was the best night in he had had in a long time, maybe ever. Finally, as he told her goodbye, he knew he had some things to take care of when he got back...

While these data are of little comfort to any senior who has experienced a problem, they do put the scope of the issue in perspective. Our community’s job is to work collaboratively with beneficiaries, pharmacies,...

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of wordsand not one of them can save me.

Anxiously you ask, ‘Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?’ The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the...

You forget your feet when the shoes are comfortable. You forget your waist when the belt is comfortable. Understanding forgets right and wrong when the mind is comfortable. There is no change in what is...

Heavenly comfort, rather, is truth, which blows away human fantasies that we can live forever, control everything, or fake our lives before God.

I close my eyes. I don’t expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends,...

For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.

You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others.

All infants and children require and deserve comfort in order to develop properly. Soft cooing voices, gentle touch, smiles, cleanliness, and wholesome food all contribute to the growing body/mind. And when these basic conditions are...

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It’s a plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it’s white, and looking at it, instead...

People are taking some comfort in results and a feeling that the economy is getting better, but there’s still some caution. We need to see more evidence of a sustainable recovery. We need companies to...

from the prose poem “The Universe Thrums on regardless” in my book SPAN.We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.

A blanket that has arms to hold you when you are sad, now that’s what I call a comforter.

While Republicans may have lost the past two elections for governor, they can take comfort from the fact that they currently lead Virginia’s love parade.

Things work out the way they’re supposed to.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

We deeply appreciate all of the good wishes we have received during the past seven months. It’s a comfort knowing that our children are in the prayers of so many people.

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

My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that’s my comfort level.

So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not...

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

Each day is a new chance to improve your life, and that of your family, friends and colleagues. Be positive in your outlook, honest in your dealing and determined in your efforts. You will succeed

Hope is a Heaven to keep you out of Hell. It’s hard work believing that it’s there.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

You’re not going to see a (buying and selling) frenzy. For the time being it should … give investors some comfort there is some value out there.

I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them

God wants to use you as a divine show room, where the poor, the wearied and the depressed will find comfort and recreation! You got to be kind. It’s a sign that you have conquered...

It’s always comforting to tell yourself things are going to be alright, because even if a part of you senses that you’re lying, it’s comforting to shut it out- shut out reality and pretend- because...

I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.

As I go off into the big black abyss of my future, I have to admit that I am terrified and also a bit insecure in my decisions. But, I also realize that anyone who...

Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades...

They had a very good showing. I think their comfort level is higher. They know each other a little more now. I saw a lot of good communication from them for the first time out.

I think it almost provides comfort for parents to know they have that instant way of communicating with their kids.

Take solace in that, regardless of the fact that the love you had in your mind was lost, it was fairer than any, and you can take that with you forever.

Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o’clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the...

I see no comfort in outliving one’s friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

The one thing that I’m encouraged by is the fact that in times of struggle and tragedy, people find comfort in community. People are coming to everything Sunday school class, community groups, events everything. Attendance...

Here’s a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process,...

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous creature. I think that one of the things that male patriarchal figure has...

Oh, jeez,” Fang said, sounding strangled.

The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or...

Of all the comforting objects in this world, few things are as reassuring and accepting as books.

Hannah’s magic cure for every ill,” he teased. “Blueberry cake and a kitten.

Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had felt before, the sense of loss and the aloneness, the utter defenselessness that was each man’s lot, sealed...