#assuring

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#delusion #far #grasp #however #me

As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work. ↗

— Peter Straub

#excitement #felt #first #going #i

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#reassurance #reassuring #respite #soothing #inspirational

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course. ↗

— George Cukor

#boss #charted #course #feel #knows

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come. ↗

— Jack Gould

#always #come #reassuring #something #supremely

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#bad #cultural #culture #downplay #game

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#appear #assuring #badly #calmness #come

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#depend #entire #excited #future #i

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#acquired #affairs #assuring #born #control

I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time. ↗

— Katie Price

#insecure #insecure person #need #person #quite