Comfortable Quotes - Page 23

• The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Average, Firsts, Prosperity

  Campaign address, Detroit, Mich., 2 Oct. 1932

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• I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

  Channing Tatum

  Girl, Florida, Dancing

  "Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey talk Magic Mike workouts, dance moves and stripping music". Interview with Oliver Franklin-Wallis, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. July 12, 2012.

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• Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

  Margot Asquith

  Beautiful, Women, Home

  Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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• I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

  Anna Quindlen

  Literature, Wanted, Persons

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.59, Ballantine Books

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• I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

  Carly Simon

  Song, Standards, Stills

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• It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

  Barbara Walters

  Causes, Facts, Unfortunate

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• In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

  Roman Abramovich

  Kids, Russia, Play

  "Inside the hidden world of Roman's empire". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2006.

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• I can say, 'I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?'

  Barbra Streisand

  Fear, Want, Awful

  "Fearless People Greet Fear at the Door" by Jonathan Alpert, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Sex, Women, Feminine

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

  Murray Kempton

  Sacrifice, Reality, World

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.16, New York Review of Books

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• I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Girlfriend, My Girlfriend, Feels

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• More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.

  Deborah Tannen

  Men, Public Speaking, Feels

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• If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

  William Greider

  Country, Retirement, Years

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• I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.

  Mary Frann

  Careers, Challenges, Want

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• Quite frankly, I am not very comfortable in chitchat. When I go to board meetings, I arrive two minutes before and leave when it's over. I don't stay for lunch or go early and have coffee.

  Lou Gerstner

  Coffee, Two, Lunch

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• Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Inspiring, Leadership, Women

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• I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend College - "I just hate to talk to a machine!" They say this as though it is a major philosophical position, as opposed to a description of a minor neurosis. My feeling is, if you have a problem like this, you shouldn't go around trumpeting it; you should stay home and practice talking to a machine you can feel comfortable with, such as your Water Pik, until you are ready to assume your place in modern society.

  Dave Barry

  Hate, Philosophical, Humorous

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• With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would give a comfortable living and sufficient leisure, in order to sacrifice to my gods [mathematical research]. For example, I hope to get the editting of the census, the birth and death lists in local districts, not as a job, but for my pleasure and satisfaction.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Loyalty, Jobs, Science

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• [Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.

  Henry James

  Science, Noise, Biographies

  Henry James, Jack Kerouac (1999). “Henry James: A Life in Letters”, Viking Press

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• To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . . . even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern. . . .

  Thomas Jefferson

  Teacher, Religious, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.390, Cambridge University Press

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• There's nothing like the comfort of a silence that's comfortable.

  Nick Hexum

  Sadness, Silence, Comfort

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• I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.

  Winona Ryder

  Growing Up, Kids, Long

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• Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Senior, Running, Attitude

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• You want to make a guy comfortable enough to confess to murder.

  Bill Clark

  Guy, Want, Murder

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• I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.

  Lionel Blue

  Jew

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