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"For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal."
"I'm also all about comfort. Just hanging out and wearing jeans or sweats."
"I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo-Conservatives."
"England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there."
"It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?"
"It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way."
"Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself."
"There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it."
"Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony."
"A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare."
"Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!"
"The ultimate comfort zone is within."
"Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention."
"Writer advice... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write."
"Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them."
"The thing about summer is, I think it is pretty easy to dress comfortably, like I tend to gravitate more toward flowy, easy pieces. When summer comes around, I am definitely dressing for comfort."
"Get outside of their comfort zone and try something new. You never truly grow when you're too comfortable."
"I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it."
"Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it."
"There is a comfort with design that may be a detail, rather than a building; comfort with form that is time-released and never finished. How do you represent an instruction set that will play out in time? There may be slightly different kinds of documents for representing those forms, and different skills for advocating change outside of our fee-for-service habits."
