#comfort

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#aspects #comfortable #compliance #dissent #encourage

When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job. ↗

— Ben Chandler

#because #comfortable #decided #finished #frankly

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. ↗

— Cleopatra

#despise #events #strange #terrible #welcome

As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of. ↗

— George Clooney

#being #career #character #character actor #comfortable

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find. ↗

— John Churton Collins

#each #find #knew #other #secrets

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#appreciates #comfortable #find #likes #most

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#any #being #bewildered #chance #comfort

I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#comfortable #every #i #i think #just

Of course, we also have to play in concert halls. This is our dream when you are a musician - to play in a good, comfortable hall with a wonderful acoustic. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#also #comfortable #concert #course #dream

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind? ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#around #aside #because #comforting #enact