Quotes About Reassurance

#1. 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

#2. Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.

Marshall McLuhan

#3. I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.

Tom Brokaw

#4. Don't be afraid ... " We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome thing."

Madeleine L'Engle

#5. It's funny, I used to do a character that was just a baby - just an adult baby. I would get up onstage and complain about adult stuff, but as a baby. I was in a diaper, and I would require hugs from the audience and reassurance and stuff.

John Gemberling

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. What's the use of held note or a held line
That cannot be assailed for reassurance?

W.B.Yeats

#10. I know where my heart stands, but Sydney doesn't have that reassurance. If time will give her that reassurance, then I'll give her time. Just not too much.

Colleen Hoover

#11. 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

#12. A habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night ... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.

Toni Morrison

#13. The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder ... chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

Clementine Paddleford

#14. There was something about the past - the reassurance that others had lived and loved and survived before me gave me something to cling to in the present.

Karen White

#15. Mrs. Winterson did not have a soothing personality. Ask for reassurance and it would never come. I never asked her if she loved me. She loved me on those days when she was able to love. I really believe that is the best she could do.

Jeanette Winterson

#16. My head questions everything and believes nothing."
"So your head wants proof and your heart wants reassurance?

J. Sterling

#17. The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.

Vita Sackville-West

#18. In a country that's in a hurry to make the future, the names attached to the products are an enduring reassurance.

Don DeLillo

#19. Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

Lauren Oliver

#20. 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. It faced
or seemed to face
the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#21. Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

Michel Onfray

#22. I guess I just wanted reassurance. "Mamaw, does God love us?" She hung her head, gave me a hug, and began to cry.

J.D. Vance

#23. We never figured out whether I need to be more reassuring or if he just needs reassurance too much. We both try to readjust our settings to make it okay

David Levithan

#24. Confront all the angry thoughts, feelings, the jealousies and condemnations, to find their cause, seek the root of such feelings and then operate on that. Need of security and reassurance can cause criminal acts.

Anais Nin

#25. I needed reassurance from the doubts that were beginning to surface in my mind since I'd first given voice to them in conversation with Amy.

Catherine Sanderson

#26. 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

#27. Comfort and reassurance and a wordless understanding that there is always darkness. In some part of us, there is absolute darkness, as much as we wish otherwise. As much as we pretend otherwise. Anders shifts

Kelley Armstrong

#28. Reassurance is a good way to reinforce

Keith Grafman

#29. Stories have endings; that's why we tell them, for reassurance that there is meaning in our lives. But like a diagnosis, a story can become a prison, a straight road mapped out by the people who went before. Stories are not the truth.

Sarah Moss

#30. 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

#31. One thing about religious truths is that we have to take them on faith, and faith needs reassurance. What's more reassuring than noticing that some other people, whom you admire, are so certain that it's all true that they're willing to go the ultimate mile?

Rodney Stark

#32. 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

#33. Art only survives by striking a chord in someone's heart and offering solace and reassurance.

Hannah Mary Rothschild

#34. I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

Rory Bremner

#35. His eyes became wild, searching for reassurance in the faces surrounding him. Instead he saw the opposite - awful affirmation of his fears.

Michael Punke

#36. Each victory with God can bring a reassurance once more that the ones born of God are victorious

Sunday Adelaja

#37. True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.

Lynn Coady

#38. 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

#39. When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever

Ken Blanchard

#40. Reassurance, like offence, is taken not given.

David Adam

#41. The words were old and true, full of reassurance, comfort, consolation. Men followed such words to their death because other men before them had done the same, and perhaps it was easier to die than admit that words could lose their meaning.

Don DeLillo

#42. What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for reassurance in the eyes of others. Look for reassurance in your own eyes. Only you know if Buddhist practice is improving the quality of your life.

Frederick Lenz

#43. But then a bubbling tenor voice said kindly, "Do not fear. It is a dream." The reassurance spread over him like a blanket. But he could not feel it with his hands, and the ambulance kept on moving. Needing the blanket, he clenched at the empty air until his knuckles were white with loneliness.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#44. 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

#45. The number one way a man can succeed in fulfilling a woman's primary love needs is through communication. By learning to listen to a woman's feelings, a man can effectively shower a woman with caring, understanding, respect, devotion, validation, and reassurance ...

John Gray

#46. 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

#47. But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists - seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt.
Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

Simon Van Booy

#48. People will wake up in the dark and pad to their kitchen needing strength, and the reassurance that something delightful is about to happen - and hoping that this small chore of making coffee might set the tone for a day filled with difficult, wonderful things.

James Freeman

#49. And I watched the first man I ever kissed walk away from me forever. My heart full of nothing but regret, my brain full of nothing but reassurance that I was making the right choice, and my voice, completely void of any will to call him back.

Molli Fields

#50. 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

#51. A woman should not be judged for needing this reassurance, just as a man should not be judged for needing to withdraw.

John Gray

#52. Reality is the best reassurance of all.

Seth Godin

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It is the same reassurance that a looking-glass offers us: the guarantee that we are real.

Mary McCarthy

#56. Abusive parents have inappropriate expectations of their children, with a reversal of dependence needs. Parents treat an abused child as if the child were older than the parents. A parent often turns to the child for reassurance, nurturing, comfort, and protection and expects a loving response.

Benjamin James Sadock

#57. Sometimes you just need some reassurance about your Choice before you take any decision.

Auliq Ice

#58. The thought gave me reassurance for a split-second - until I saw the danger in it. The power to make me feel better also gave her the power to hurt me. With love came fear. It's like sun and shadow. How do you separate them?

Kate Morgenroth

#59. To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

Phillip Adams

#60. 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

#61. I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

Madeleine L'Engle

#62. 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

#63. I go through memory after memory, looking for reassurance that nothing has changed, but it's like flipping through a book of stories I've outgrown. Everything has changed.

Paula Stokes

#64. 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

#65. Annabeth grabbed hold of my hand. Under normal circumstances, this would've embarrassed me, but I understood how she felt. She wanted reassurance that somebody else was alive on this boat.

Rick Riordan

#66. What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

Eric Hoffer

#67. I saw the same peace in Travis' eyes that I had witnessed only a handful of times, and it hit me that just like the other nights, his content expression was a direct result of reassurance from me.

Jamie McGuire

#68. Interesting," said Sabetha, "that I mention my own feelings, and you seem to think that what I'm after is reassurance concerning your perceptions.

Scott Lynch

#69. 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

#70. Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

Neal A. Maxwell

#71. Growing independence, though, doesn't have to mean growing separation. Humans were created to be relational beings. We may outgrow our dependency, but we never outgrow the need for community, interaction, appreciation, reassurance, and support.

L.R. Knost

#72. Listen. In every office you hear the threads of love and joy and fear and guilt, the cries for celebration and reassurance, and somehow you know that connecting those threads is what you are supposed to do and business takes care of itself.

Susan Scott

#73. 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

#74. we all need reassurance and encouragement. We're human, and that's how we work

Richard Templar

#75. He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.

Tess Gerritsen

#76. That's how to cultivate obsession even if you're only trying for reassurance. Document it. Keep touching it. Make sure it's really there.

Charlotte Shane

#77. 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

#78. And then he's kissing me; his mouth is urgent against mine, like he's searching for some sort of reassurance, some kind of promise only I can give.

Jenny Han

#79. Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

John Hall Wheelock

#80. Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.

Anita Loos

#81. Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.

Tom Shales

#82. 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

#83. The drive to make everything lightweight is depriving us of the the deep reassurance of heft.

Michael Foley

#84. 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

#85. When we experience inner impoverishment, love for another too easily becomes hunger: for reassurance, for acclaim, for affirmation of our worth.

Sharon Salzberg

#86. 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

#87. There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have.

Annie Lennox

#88. Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

Michel Faber

#89. See? Small steps. Just take it one thing at a time and you'll be fine. Angel, I'm not going to hurt you. You know that, right? Can you nod for me? Breathe a little? Tender humor mixed with the concern in his face could undo her. And give her reassurance. She was rather amazed at the combination.

Joey W. Hill

#90. It was a smile of total reassurance and gave all who saw it a feeling of intense well-being. Not joy, but something akin to a sleepy peace. A sort of not-a-worry-in-the-world sensation.

William Joyce

#91. Healing, she found, required motion, intention, purpose - the reassurance that life was still worth living.

Corban Addison

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there.

Sherry Argov

#95. With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and its little confluents to drink and be clean and irrigate with, using water mindfully, carefully. They lived in a land that answers greed with drought and death. A difficult land: aloof yet sensitive.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#96. He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted angrily, instead of seeing the weakness and giving reassurance.

Ken Follett

#97. What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

Dada Vaswani

#98. Thomas turned to see Newt there, smiling. That grin sent a wave of reassurance through Thomas, as if he were finding out the world was okay again.

James Dashner

#99. Andie was a physical girl, and that's not code for 'It's all about the sex'. She was a hugger, a toucher, she was prone to running her fingers through my hair or down my back in a friendly scratch. She got reassurance and comfort from touching. And yes, fine, she also liked sex.

Gillian Flynn

#100. I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.

Jim Abbott