#comfort

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#force #friends #lever #make #up

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body. ↗

— Estella Warren

#body #childhood #clothed #comfortable #coming

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#comfort #expressed #finer #organic #seeks

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#comfort #desire #destroyed #drink #i

On Earth one of the things that a large proportion of the locals is most proud of is this wonderful economic system which, with a sureness and certainty so comprehensive one could almost imagine the process bears some relation to their limited and limiting notions of either thermodynamics or God, all food, comfort, energy, shelter, space, fuel and sustenance gravitates naturally and easily away from those who need it most and towards those who need it least. Indeed, those on the receiving end of such largesse are often harmed unto death by its arrival, though the effects may take years and generations to manifest themselves. ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#economics #energy #food #fuel #limited

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts. ↗

— Jacob Hacker

#accounts #comfortable #even #feel #homes

People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we've not engaged in. ↗

— Eric Holder

#characterized #comfortable talking #dialogue #engaged #express

Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means. ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#comfort #find #god #look #means

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#become #comfortable #get #given #may

Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable. ↗

— Mathieu Kassovitz

#before #began #comfortable #contacts #everyone