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There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness. -- David Rakoff
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. -- Franz Kafka
It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course. -- George Cukor
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. -- Carl Sagan
Reassuring a jealous woman that you don't want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn't desirable and to her, where the opinions of others correlates to her self-worth, is unforgivable. -- Donna Lynn Hope
For the most part, I meet people who are like 'I really like your work. I'm watching your career. I want to see you do well. Keep doing what you do.' I get that so much, and it's so reassuring. I often wish that so many people, who just work normal jobs, could get a pat on the back as much as I do, because it's very complimentary. -- Michael Ealy
Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome. -- Robin Hobb
There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come. -- Jack Gould
Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. -- Sharon Olds
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. -- Ram Dass
Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start. -- Shana Alexander
Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge. -- Jacques Ellul
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal. -- Carl Sagan
All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time. -- Peter York
We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope. -- Wallace Stegner
One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little. -- Kenneth Koch
It is reassuring to know that I can control how I feel and what I do on any given day. The eay I choose to see the world creates the world I see. -- Joan Lunden
When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring. -- Adam Young
I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be. -- Jason Sellards
No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light... -- John Muir
There's something very reassuring... about the written record. -- John Updike
I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time. -- Katie Price
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it? -- Dick Cavett
I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through. -- James L. Brooks
I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring. -- Malcolm Boyd
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying. -- Rachel Cusk
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. -- Carl Sagan
Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors. -- Patton Oswalt
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
It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring. -- Claire Danes
Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security. -- Peter Dinklage
I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things. -- Jo Brand
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. -- Thomas Sowell
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. -- Julien Benda
Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that. -- Fredric Jameson
Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency. -- Christopher Hitchens
I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring. -- Jennifer Saunders
I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be. -- Jason Sellards
Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming he would fight the Great Depression with the same resolve he would muster against a foreign foe, were aimed at reassuring Americans. -- Christina Romer
The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real. -- James Surowiecki
For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date. -- Laurent Fabius
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring. -- M. F. K. Fisher
Integrity rings like fine glass. True, clear, and reassuring. -- Pam Brown
Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof. -- Jed Rubenfeld
Theres nothing more reassuring than a world thats crazier than you are. -- Stellan Skarsgard
Rosie laughed in a not too reassuring way if you like sane laughter. -- Louise Rennison
Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated. -- Martha Whitmore Hickman
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life. -- Oscar Wilde
There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits. -- Margaret Atwood
I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring -- Sarah Dessen
There is someone for everyone, i'nt there. That's always my thing. And it's reassuring I think. -- Karl Pilkington
When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous. -- Stacy Allison
For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness. -- Lynda Barry
It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth. -- Jessica Mitford
It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head. -- Joan Osborne
I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is. -- Bob Hope
The vicar's handshake was warm and reassuring, but shaking hands with Mavis was like clutching a bunch of dead twigs. -- Victoria Twead
I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring. -- Malcolm Boyd
He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan -- Jim Butcher
Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye. -- Paul Kane
Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday. -- Jonah Goldberg
Seth moved behind me, his presence steady and reassuring. Waiting to catch me, even though I refused to fall just yet. -- Richelle Mead
In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure. -- James Fallows
The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind. -- Aldous Huxley
For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy. -- Michael Medved
The highway is replete with culinary land mines disguised as quaint local restaurants that carry such reassuring names as Millie's, Pop's and Capt'n Dick's -- Bryan Miller
Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep. -- Lauren Oliver
When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney, it was a reassuring sign that the Texas governor would have an experienced, prudent voice at his side. -- Jeff Greenfield
Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right. -- Malcolm Forbes
With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure. -- H. G. Wells
They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing. -- Toby Jones
I think Donald Trump can take major steps towards reassuring the American people that there can't even be appearance of impropriety for pay-to-play schemes under his administration. -- Claire McCaskill
To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now. -- Jean Kerr
A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result. -- Markus Zusak
Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm. -- Suzanne Collins
Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return. -- Tara Brach
Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show. -- Ethel Waters
It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good feeling, a good vibe about it. -- Thom Yorke
A knowledgeable physical therapist can slowly build up patients' confidence by reassuring them that there is no structural problem and reminding them of the physiologic reason for the pain. -- John E. Sarno
It's actually reassuring to see people struggling to do our accent instead of us constantly trying to emulate British or American accents, which we are always asked to do. -- Martin Henderson
I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found if you're suggesting quite big changes, a quiet style may be reassuring. -- Bill Drayton
Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people. -- David Dark
As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy's shoulders to let him know the world hadn't ended. -- Christopher Nolan
Walking through the Capitol Building gives you a sense of how it all began here. It was reassuring to see how restrained it was. It was very humble in a way. -- Greg Lake
It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture. -- America Ferrera
It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside... who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture. -- America Ferrera
It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking. -- Douglas Adams
Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom. -- Bill Maher
The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring. -- Paul Rand
Bruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended. -- Christopher Nolan

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