Quotes About Reassuring

#1. They found the Infirmary of Justice much as they had left it: white institutional walls, too-bright floors, and a reassuring smell of antiseptic. Reassuring at least to Tara, because the smell signalled that the people running this infirmary knew about antiseptic.

Max Gladstone

#2. 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

#3. The beach at Meschers was crawling with wankers in shorts and bimbos in thongs. It was reassuring.

Michel Houellebecq

#4. I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

Rachel Cusk

#5. Instead, there was only the kind of silence that comes when someone takes away a clock to be repaired and after a time you become aware of its absence because its gentle, reassuring tick is gone and you miss it so.

John Connolly

#6. 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

#7. He felt Anna's hand slip into his and he grasped it hard. It was reassuring, soft, comforting. Everything he needed in that moment.

Samantha Chase

#8. This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself. Now there is a loss beyond imagining.

Michael Cunningham

#9. Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

Paul Kane

#10. There are certain directors where you know you're going to be good or you're not going to be there. There are people where you kind of know that if you miss the mark then it'll probably not be in the movie and that's very reassuring.

Christopher Walken

#11. 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

#12. She won't win," Eric said. He sounded confident, passionate
everything I might have hoped would be reassuring.
"You're sure?" I asked.
"Yes, my lover. I'm sure."
"But you're not here," I observed,
and I hung up very gently.
He didn't call back.

Charlaine Harris

#13. 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

#14. For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

Lynda Barry

#15. I find it somewhat reassuring that I'm not the only one who feels like I should be running around shouting, Where's the script? Where's the script? If only I had a script I'd know what the freak I'm supposed to be doing.

Patricia Briggs

#16. I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.

Auberon Waugh

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Theres nothing more reassuring than a world thats crazier than you are.

Stellan Skarsgard

#20. I'm a bloodsucking fiend," she said. "I'm not supposed to be reassuring.

Sarah Beth Durst

#21. There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Robin Hobb

#22. Even if it's a life in shackles, if you have somebody who accepts you for what you really are, how reassuring would that be?

Sui Ishida

#23. The secret to thriving is the knowledge that we are never simply victims of our bodies. It's very reassuring to know that we all have within us the ability to heal from anything and go on to live joy-filled lives.

Christiane Northrup

#24. I think the single most reassuring thing about doing a startup is knowing in advance how difficult it is going to be.

Jared Tame

#25. Rosie laughed in a not too reassuring way if you like sane laughter.

Louise Rennison

#26. 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

#27. The journey back through the house, like all return journeys, felt shorter and less convoluted; the sense of knowing how long the tunnels were and where they ended up was reassuring

Lisa Jewell

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?

Frank Herbert

#31. It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.

Kate Reardon

#32. 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

#33. There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Jack Gould

#34. Go," said Wednesday, his voice a reassuring growl. "All is well, and all is well, and all shall be well.

Neil Gaiman

#35. Anna felt his hand linger on the small of her back as he placed her gently on the ground. His hand was so warm and reassuring. It felt almost as though it belonged there.

Walt Disney Company

#36. She realised she was whimpering. Sir held her closer, his hard grip reassuring. This wasn't a dream; he really was here.

Cherise Sinclair

#37. I listened for a while to the reassuring sound of that boy breathing near me. I watched the slight movement of his eyelids as he dreamed. It wasn't enough just to be near him. I wished I could see what he was dreaming right then. I would have traveled even there with him.

Karen Thompson Walker

#38. I resist the urge to raise my hand and utter the four most reassuring words in the English language: I know a guy.

Sarah Vowell

#39. He somehow knew it was more important to be reassuring, to seem to be in command of the situation, than to be right. And he was always willing to give in when he was found out to be wrong. The

Jan Ellison

#40. When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.

Alice Waters

#41. 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

#42. They're coming at it through the name. The big guy is all over town, asking questions." He got a long plastic crackle in exchange, calm, mellifluous, and reassuring. He said, "OK, sure," but he didn't sound sure, and then he hung up the phone.

Lee Child

#43. Oddly, though, lists are reassuring. We become aware of this if we scrupulously follow a recipe, which is essentially a list of ingredients and actions; but if we give this 'list' too much importance, we leave no room for the imagination.

Jean-Claude Ellena

#44. He smiled at her and gave a reassuring wink. He couldn't help himself. Chance figured old habits die hard, but the fact was when he grinned at her, or winked, he wasn't trying to get into her pants. He truly grinned with her. She made him smile. She could prove to be a good friend

Shyloh Morgan

#45. There is the smell, too, of course
the reassuring smell of paper, new paper, soft old paper, recalling each person to the first time they really did press their nose into a book.

Deborah Meyler

#46. Indeed, the one thing these prophecies had in common was that, ultimately, all were reassuring. Unfortunately, though, the plague was not.

Albert Camus

#47. People will help each other because there is a sense of camaraderie that springs up, which is a survival tactic. You help them because you know you might need their help later. And that is incredibly reassuring.

Amanda Ripley

#48. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable

Carl Sagan

#49. 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

#50. I love when it's me you look at with that laughter in your eyes. It's reassuring, as if in letting me know my heart also had colors that you enjoy seeing. It makes me sparkle inside; I adore the times we sparkle together ... to me nothing is better than those.

Stefanie Schneider

#51. The evidence of priming studies suggests that reminding people of their mortality increases the appeal of authoritarian ideas, which may become reassuring in the context of the terror of death.

Daniel Kahneman

#52. 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

#53. I lifted my head from Clay. "You okay?" I whispered. He turned his head and licked my cheek, reassuring me. "Next

Melissa Haag

#54. I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.
- Watson

Arthur Conan Doyle

#55. 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

#56. You have each other, thought Isabel.But was that enough? Even when one was in love, it was not really enough just to have the other person - not if one needed stimulation. The company of just one person could be reassuring, could stave off loneliness, but would it be enough for three months?

Alexander McCall Smith

#57. Una's death struck Samuel like a silent earthquake. He said no brave and reassuring words, he simply sat alone and rocked himself.

John Steinbeck

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. She wasn't mine. She hadn't been mine for a long time. She shouldn't be here and I shouldn't have asked. So instead of reassuring her, I kept leaning agains the tree looking like the devil and hoping she turned and ran. ~ The Vincent Boys

Abbi Glines

#61. I had given her a reassuring smile and patted her hand and told her not to worry, I wouldn't do anything stupid. It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.

Barack Obama

#62. Peter was a gentle, red-haired bear of a man. Standing at six-four in his socks, he moved everywhere with a slight and nautical sway, but even though he was broad across the chest there was something centered and reassuring about him, like an old ship's mast cut from a single timber.

Graham Joyce

#63. I imagine the ones we've lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes that's terrifying, and sometimes it's reassuring, a promise of homecoming.

Ann Aguirre

#64. The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or what have you. As a matter of fact, the truly dishonest man will last longer in college -teaching or the ministry than he will in the business world.

Benjamin A. Rogge

#65. One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Franz Kafka

#66. There is someone for everyone, i'nt there. That's always my thing. And it's reassuring I think.

Karl Pilkington

#67. The strategic problem is, of course, that simulacra are reassuring only when viewed from outside. They do not provide an existential model for how to be in the world. One can appreciate the brilliance of the embalmer's work, but one would not want to be its object.

Charles Bernheimer

#68. I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through.

James L. Brooks

#69. I feel only gratitude. We are doing something as necessary to our well-being as food or air or water. We are steeping ourselves, reassuring ourselves, renewing ourselves, three creatures of two species, finding comfort in the simple exchange of body warmth.

Abigail Thomas

#70. No, I assure you. I have yet to have a relationship in real life, but I've read lots of Cosmo and I used to take a ton of those quizzes about love." "Wow... that's really reassuring. NOT.

R.S. Grey

#71. Sweet as hell. Unexpected. Reassuring. It was as if he wanted me to know, in his own particular Noah way, that he hadn't forgotten about me.

Sarah Darlington

#72. I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is.

Bob Hope

#73. 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

#74. How reassuring. - Queen Elizabeth, when told during a walking tour of Scotland that she looks like the Queen

Kate Petrella

#75. 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

#76. Nick tried to give him a reassuring smile, but he knew himself well enough to know that when he smiled, it rarely reassured anyone.

Abigail Roux

#77. 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

#78. And not for the first time she felt a reassuring shiver of dislike for him.

David Nicholls

#79. It felt natural, somehow, to be beside him - natural and reassuring - like coming home after a long journey to finally sleep in your own bed.

Mereda Hart Farynyk

#80. You don't realize how reassuring it is to see yourself every day until you can't anymore.

Karen Marie Moning

#81. 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

#82. There's no need for me to enter your mind, just sit at the edges and look for leakage."
"Leakage?" Veran looked at his daughter. "You magicians have some interesting terms. Not particularly reassuring ones.

Trudi Canavan

#83. Every civilisation has had its irrational but reassuring myth. Previous civilisations have used their culture to sing about it and tell stories about it. Ours has used its mathematics to prove it.

David Fleming

#84. That sounds perfectly reasonable ... he said in a reassuring tone of voice, wondering who he was trying to reassure.

Douglas Adams

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. The similarity was reassuring: the pupil was a good measure of the physical arousal that accompanies mental effort, and we could go ahead and use it to understand how the mind works.

Daniel Kahneman

#89. What we need, Mikhail, is Raven's calming influence. You look about as reassuring as a Bengal tiger.
Oh, and you look like a bunny rabbit, Mikhail scoffed.

Christine Feehan

#90. I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.

Katie Price

#91. My only constant is the black hair tie around my wrist. No mans gonna be there for me like this hair tie has. No ones presence is gonna be as reassuring.

Unknown

#92. Disasters, he proposed, create a "community of sufferers" that allow individuals to experience an immensely reassuring connection to others

Sebastian Junger

#93. Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring

Sarah Dessen

#94. Integrity rings like fine glass. True, clear, and reassuring.

Pam Brown

#95. I want to reach over and grab her hand to comfort her. I want to say something reassuring to her. If this were yesterday, I'm sure I would have done that without a second thought. But it's not yesterday. It's today, and Charlie and I are complete strangers today.

Colleen Hoover

#96. There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

David Rakoff

#97. My own life felt flat and sad too much of the time; it was reassuring, somehow, to lose myself in someone else's.

Sarah Dessen

#98. There's something quite satisfying, quite reassuring about seeing a man having to survive.

Sean Bean

#99. 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

#100. On going to funerals: "You don't have to say anything. By showing up you are reassuring them that they are not alone. Just being there is enough.

Kunal Nayyar