In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. – John Kenneth Galbraith
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. [The Sermon on the Mount] – The Bible Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:4.
LORD, you know the hopes of the helpless. Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them. – The Bible Psalm 10:17
I couldn’t define my style; that’s impossible. I like comfort and elegance with a bit of glamour thrown in. If I like something, I’ll wear it for years. – Jemima Khan
When I work out, I wear two in-the-ear hearing aids for comfort, and then I wear the behind-the-ears for my day-to-day non-physical activities, when I need maximum hearing and to communicate with people and do interviews! – Lou Ferrigno
Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn’t, to something that gives us a sense of comfort, a false one. Many of us thought – needed to feel – the whole business was ‘settled.’ But it’s not, never has been. Laws have only taken us so far. – Jonathan Coleman
You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now? – L’Wren Scott
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. – John Bunyan
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. – Katherine Mansfield
I’ve never been to a festival. I’m a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa’s squishy. Maybe too squishy – it’s hard to get up sometimes. – Martin Freeman
The cell phone has become the adult’s transitional object, replacing the toddler’s teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging. – Margaret Heffernan
But you’ve got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn’t matter as much when you’re young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it. – Jeffrey Bernard
There are countries that prefer to think that they’re buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don’t think that’s the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups. – Jose Maria Aznar
The only break I ever took was to eat. That’s all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food. – John Prescott
If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I’d opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can’t break a book if I drop it on a cement floor. – Jen Lancaster
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. – Khalil Gibran