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Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth. -- Michel Faber
What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? -- Eric Hoffer
Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance. -- Juliette Binoche
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance. -- Bob Hoskins
Ask before offering advice or reassurance. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. -- Phillip Adams
I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance. -- Jim Abbott
Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children. -- Jane Goodall
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters. -- James A. Michener
When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that they like me or at least find me relevant. And that I can still do it. -- Steve Coogan
Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and the community in a search for solutions which promote repair, reconciliation and reassurance -- Howard Zehr
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad. -- Umberto Eco
Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her. -- Richard Bach
Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a hand and the furry chin draped over the instep are calculated to let the shaky owner know that a friend is nearby. -- Mary McGrory
Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
There is no place for fear among men and women who Almighty, who do not hesitate to humble themselves in seeking divine guidance through prayer. Though persecutions arise, though reverses come, in prayer we can find reassurance, for God will speak peace to the soul. That peace, that spirit of serenity, is life's greatest blessing. . -- Ezra Taft Benson
I used to not like being called a 'woman architect.' I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. The guys used to tap me on the head and say 'you're OK for a girl.' But I see an incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it can be done, so I don't mind anymore. -- Zaha Hadid
My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities. -- John Cassavetes
I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening. -- Rory Bremner
What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance. -- Dada Vaswani
And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly. -- David Neeleman
When my best friends doubt their little black dresses, they call me on the telephone seeking reassurance. -- Andre Leon Talley
Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort. -- Tom Shales
Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right. -- Sheri L. Dew
Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail. -- Charles Sturridge
I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me. -- Francis Collins
Even if humans feel lots of fear, remember God will take care of you. This is a collective message because fear is contagious... This is a message of reassurance. -- Pope Theodoros II
When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance. -- Diane von Furstenberg
A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to. -- Rahul Dravid
The amount of military force necessary to provide reassurance depends on how dangerous people think the world is. And that I think ultimately depends upon the kinds of government that hold sway in major countries. -- Michael Mandelbaum
Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself. -- John Hutton
Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown. -- Nathan Myhrvold
During times of emergencies, civil crisis, or natural disasters it is important for persons to remain free to exercise their constitutional rights in a lawful and appropriate manner, and I believe it is important that we provide individuals with specific reassurance that we value those rights. -- Colleen Hanabusa
I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were. -- Kenneth More
I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues. -- Warren Christopher
I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job. -- Chandra Wilson
I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness. -- Heidi Murkoff
While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century. -- Randy Lerner
If you want to freak your cat out, stare at your cat. If you want to reassure your cat, stare at your cat, then very deliberately and very slowly blink. Like that. The cat will also deliberately, slowly blink back at you, and I almost guarantee that she will start to purr. That's a feline reassurance. -- Walter Murch
I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all. -- Zaha Hadid
Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong. -- Lauren Oliver
Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Sunshine, it's the Celt wanting a little reassurance that I haven't eaten you or anything. (Vane) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference. -- Dar Williams
My head questions everything and believes nothing.So your head wants proof and your heart wants reassurance? -- J. Sterling
Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone. -- Debbie Ford
Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance. -- John Hall Wheelock
When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there. -- Sherry Argov
When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever -- Ken Blanchard
I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views. -- Tom Brokaw
The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation. -- Clementine Paddleford
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action. -- Max Lerner
She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
I don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson. -- Colin Firth
I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood. -- Anais Nin
All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. -- Ian Mcewan
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The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding. -- Walter Wink
The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked -- Meg Rosoff
Even if humans feel lots of fear, remember God will take care of you. This is a collective message because fear is contagious... This is a message of reassurance. -- Pope Theodoros II
Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour. -- Louis Pullig De Gouy
Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact. -- Sarah Addison Allen
People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation. -- Lauren Beukes
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When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?" -- Alexis Taylor

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