But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.
People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.
The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, and I'm much more comfortable now.
Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate.
A single day in my own shoe that is comfortable for me is better than 365 days in someone else's shoes that does not fit me at all.
I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.
Will the desire to maintain power and our level of comfort in our religious institutions equal the zeal of the Pharisees and Herodians who plotted to kill Jesus?
I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.
I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.