#comfort

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#comfort #common #common enemy #cordial #deny

With scripts I've always looked at them and thought about kids, you know? Thought about the world and the impact... I won't do nudity and I never felt comfortable with that whole idea or things with huge sexual content - not my thing. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#always #comfortable #content #felt #huge

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are. ↗

— Dinah Maria Mulock

#feeling #having #inexpressible #just #measure

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#comfort #equivalent #general #notion #particular

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#relationship #substitute #supplied #taken-for-granted #utterly

I think all women want to feel sexy and confident yet comfortable at the same time in what they wear. ↗

— Petra Nemcova

#confident #feel #i #i think #same

I've covered a lot of ground geographically and emotionally and for years I lost my connection with my family. But the best comfort you can have, whether you are on the phone or sitting there in the living room with them, is with your parents, and to me family has always meant protection. When you smile you get a smile back, unconditionally. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#back #best #comfort #connection #covered

To enjoy a long, comfortable retirement, save more today. ↗

— Suze Orman

#enjoy #long #more #retirement #save

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

— John Owen

#deeds #depends #flesh #life #mortification

That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life. ↗

— Buck Owens

#better #better way #cold #cotton #dream