Reassure Quotes

#1. I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons ...

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#2. You can't rely on the approval of others. I used to always look for praise from my directors to reassure myself that I was doing a good job. I don't do that anymore.

Jacob Vargas

#3. Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.

Rafael Yglesias

#4. Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

Louis Kahn

#5. You can't love me without growing old," she finally said. "And I can't know that about you without wanting to cry. And my tears are the end of the world."
Ander touched the corners of her eyes with his lips to reassure her they were dry. "Please don't be afraid of my love.

Lauren Kate

#6. Aithinne smiles. "You know," she says thoughtfully, "your hair rather looks like an octopus." Then, as if to reassure me: "I love octopi."

And Aithinne is obviously a bit barmy, but nobody's perfect.

Elizabeth May

#7. There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

#8. I spend most of my days up to my elbows in someone's chest cavity. Really, I know zip about music."
He didn't bother hiding his surprise. "Wow. That must be ... messy."
"That didn't sound too great, did it? Let me reassure you - I'm a doctor, not a serial killer.

Sarah Mayberry

#9. By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration's efforts to reassure the parents of America that the food they feed their children is the product of the safest system in the world.

Diana DeGette

#10. As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.

William Greider

#11. Somewhere in the back of my mind, Nighteyes was frantic. 'Poisoned. That water is poisoned.' I couldn't frame a thought to reassure him.

Robin Hobb

#12. I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction.

Veronica Roth

#13. She heard the trace of fear in his voice. The fear that a small boy must have felt when every woman he loved had disappeared from his life, swept away by a merciless fever. She didn't know how to reassure him, or how to console his long-ago grief.

Lisa Kleypas

#14. He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

Jess Walter

#15. Today let me reassure you, God knows right where you are and He knows how to get you to where you need to be. Even when things don't go the way you planned, His hand is on you.

Victoria Osteen

#16. We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart choice the last time we bought it.

David McRaney

#17. Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty. Most of us do not today believe that whatever the ups and down of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

Gregory Bateson

#18. I always think it's far more admirable to confuse people than it is to reassure them.

Will Sheff

#19. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

Albert Camus

#20. While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#21. Alan tried to reassure her the same way he always had.
--I'm the eye in the say, he said. I can see where you started and where you're going and it looks perfectly fine from up here.

Dave Eggers

#22. I wish someone could tell me it is ok to trust someone and getting betrayed.
I wish some one could reassure the faith that I have on love.

Anonymous

#23. He did his best to reassure her. He shook his head. "I know. I'm pleased very very much. I'm going to enjoy watching you tonight. I'm going to enjoy watching others covet you." He pulled her close and kissed her slowly.

Arden Aoide

#24. Cliches remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago.

Miguel Syjuco

#25. I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar. A little window into the Creation

Alan Bradley

#26. When I write from the point of view of a child or a young person, I am trying to tell the truth as an adult voice sometimes cannot. We are so often wrapped in the garment of trying to reassure ourselves that we are not afraid.

Michael Cadnum

#27. It is much easier to be strong in faith when you are smiling. So it would automatically lift my mood and reassure me that I would indeed find more reasons to smile again.

Bronnie Ware

#28. Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a lot of money involved in making movies, and it's a way for people to reassure themselves, who have spent money, and it's also a way to work out how to market a movie.

Andrew Dominik

#29. Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out. let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love.

Kay Arthur

#30. One wants permissive individuals who do not have a compelling need to reassure themselves that they are leaders.

Vikram Sarabhai

#31. If you are a jackal, you will try to reassure. Jackals try to fix people in pain. They can't stand pain, but make matters worse by trying to get rid of it. Put on giraffe ears. Try to hear what they are feeling and needing.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#32. I glance at Jayden - he turns his head to meet my gaze. He doesn't say anything. He doesn't smile or reassure me. He just looks at me and then looks away.

Dannielle Wicks

#33. When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'

Michel Faber

#34. A manager must always provide the employees opportunities to continuously improve their skills and reassure them that they have a promising future.

Abhishek Ratna

#35. Gregori flashed a smile meant to reassure, the one that left vivid images of open graves.

Christine Feehan

#36. All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#37. I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

Malcolm Gladwell

#38. It's not that I feel alone because I have no friends because I have lots of friends. I know that I have people who can hold me and reassure me and talk to ne and care for me and think of me but they can't be inside my head with me all the time - for all time.

Rob Ryan

#39. We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.

Ariel Sharon

#40. Is there any reward?
I'm beginning to doubt it.
I am broken and bored,
Is there any reward
Reassure me, Good Lord,
And inform me about it.
Is there any reward?
I'm beginning to doubt it.

Hilarie Belloc

#41. Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#42. But what I want to assure and reassure the public is we are concerned about your safety, your security, and your privacy. Let's work together in partnership to ensure that we can have the best way forward.

John Pistole

#43. The cold edge to his voice sent a shiver down Shiara's spine. She looked over at Dev, certain he would laugh off Andrei's accusations, but his expression did nothing to reassure her.

J.C. Morrows

#44. That didn't seem to reassure Nico, but his eyes were

Rick Riordan

#45. Why is it so hard for you to believe you deserve to be happy?"
He smirked, but the expression didn't quite reach his eyes. "Because you're not always around to reassure me. And you're the only person in the world I would believe.

Elizabeth Finn

#46. This did not seem to reassure Nico.
"I don't like being in the dark," he muttered.
An odd complaint for a child of Hades, but I understood what he meant.

Rick Riordan

#47. One's silence can be deafening indeed,but it's also quite satisfying once in a while to actually hear one's thoughts just to reassure a presence.

Will Leamon

#48. I'm aware that couples tend to embellish 'how we met' folklore with all kinds of detail and significance. We shape and sentimentalise these first encounters into creation myths to reassure ourselves and our offspring that it was somehow 'meant to be'.

David Nicholls

#49. I wanted him to reassure me, and when I saw he wasn't going to, I thought, This is when the shit hits the fan.

Claire Messud

#50. A smile can reassure another, provide comfort to uncomfortable situations, and display personal self-confidence for all to see.

Asa Don Brown

#51. I was wholly invested in my friendships. I might have tested them sometimes, but only to reassure myself that they were permanent. A mistake, of course.

Kevin Brockmeier

#52. I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

Alain De Botton

#53. Trust me, They want you. They want what's mine." He pulls me against him, and I lift my arms to his shoulders, my hands in his hair, regarding him with amusement.
"Mine," he repeats, his eyes glowing possessively.
"Yes, yours." I reassure him, smiling.

E.L. James

#54. Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone.

Frans De Waal

#55. As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

Thomas Edward Brown

#56. By recalling God's past provision, we can reassure ourselves that what He has done in the past, He will do again in the future.

Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#57. Second, and far more powerfully, we want to believe that parents create criminals because in supposing that, we reassure ourselves that in our own house, where we are not doing such wrong things, we do not risk this calamity. I

Sue Klebold

#58. People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

Ani DiFranco

#59. Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.

Patrick Modiano

#60. One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

Rachel Kushner

#61. Houses, I have come to believe, like love, like nature herself, should not reassure, should not attempt to soothe, or give comfort, but should, rather, excite.

Patrick McGrath

#62. Our vast collections of knowledge and experience are just part of ego's display, part of the grandiose quality of ego. We display them to the world and, in so doing, reassure ourselves that we exist, safe and secure, as "spiritual" people.

Chogyam Trungpa

#63. Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure us about what a human being is capable of, as we survive our own lives every day, our own mysterious journeys.

Ramona Koval

#64. For him, a universe imbued with the divine was not something to make you bow down but something to reassure you. The divinity of all things is normal, not awesome.

Tony Hendra

#65. We live in a dangerous world, and I am not so attached to life that I will do anything to survive. I can't reassure him. He checks his watch. "They'll be here any minute." I get up, and see Evelyn and Edward standing next to the tracks. They run before the train passes them, and jump in with almost

Veronica Roth

#66. My dear sister, I can reassure you. Firstly, the beastly baby is Italian. Secondly, it was promptly christened at Santa Deodata's, and a powerful combination of saints watch over -

E. M. Forster

#67. The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

Norman Cousins

#68. I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#69. I wanted to tell her she was beautiful, but it almost seemed like saying that to her would be diminishing it. You don't reassure a rainbow it's colourful, or a star that it shines. Sometimes, not saying something says more than anything else.

Nina G. Jones

#70. The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

Neal A. Maxwell

#71. Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.

Marc Morial

#72. The idea that an afterlife had been invented to reassure people who couldn't face the finality of death was no more plausible than the idea that the finality of death had been invented to reassure people who couldn't face the nightmare of endless experience.

Edward St. Aubyn

#73. Like a man who pinches himself to make sure he still has feeling, Chimen read to reassure himself that he was still alive.

Sasha Abramsky

#74. The inmates keep their distance and do what inmates always seem to do: affirm and reassure, make the future seem doable.

Adam Johnson

#75. We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have never believed in them.

Jean Baudrillard

#76. The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're
not the first to die.

Simon Van Booy

#77. Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

Friedrich Engels

#78. Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you need to do is show up and pretend to be happy for them."
"That's one of the few things I won't have to pretend, Plutarch," I tell him.

Suzanne Collins

#79. How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond.

C.J. Sansom

#80. In relationships, when a person gets angry, it is really just hurt in disguise. So men, consider this the next time the woman you are with gets angry with you. She is most likely just hurt and needs you to hold her and reassure her.

Lisa Bedrick

#81. My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.

Ewan MacColl

#82. Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough.

Cassia Leo

#83. She brushed her lips over his, needing to taste him, to reassure herself of his presence, even if the kiss was relatively chaste. He let out a soft groan, his big body melting against hers as he pulled her close.
"Get a fucking room," Gabriel muttered.

Katie Reus

#84. I might have been calm, but my dear father was near tears. 'Are you all right, jani?' he said. 'Aba,' I said, trying to reassure him. 'Everybody knows they will die someday. No one can stop death. It doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or from cancer.

Malala Yousafzai

#85. Adam said nothing as we walked, his gaze fixed on our destination. I always wished he would say something comforting. Anything to reassure me against what I knew was going to come. But he was always as silent as the stones that encased us.

Keary Taylor

#86. I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering.

Goodluck Jonathan

#87. The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.

Joseph Mitchell

#88. But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

Gayle Forman

#89. A tightness in my chest came out of nowhere. As I listened to Amanda reassure my brother, I wanted to pull her into my arms and cry. How damn crazy was that? This girl was making me a nutcase.

Abbi Glines

#90. What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Georges Bernanos

#91. But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.

Jay Roach

#92. Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Agatha Christie

#93. Don't look so worried Norah," Clint was trying to reassure me, "you may have your naked painting and guns to help you escape ... but me, when things get too much for me ... I, drive.

Angela Richardson

#94. In calling someone a bad guy, I reassure myself that I'm good. I elevate myself. I call it the 'Star Wars morality'. And unfortunately, it underpins most of the stories we tell.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#95. I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

Maeve Binchy

#96. Reassured, we left their bedroom without understanding
or wanting to admit
that what a child learns first isn't the act but the gestures that accompany the act. And although it may also help them learn, this ostentatious show of reading is primarily intended to reassure them and please us.

Daniel Pennac

#97. Oh, it's normal," he said, and she remembered how he had always been quick to reassure her, to make her feel better. "I was away for a much shorter time, obviously, but I was very surprised when I came back. I kept thinking that things should have waited for me but they hadn't.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#98. Not every musician should be obligated to reassure us that we are not zombies.

Joseph Lanza

#99. If you're trying to reassure me, don't make it sound like you want to eat me." Tarn leaned in farther, letting the long twists of his hair fall to brush Gard's cheek. Then he murmured, putting a little growl into it, "I do want to eat you. I like the way you taste.

Amy Rae Durreson

#100. When one of them complained of being frightened by the dark, Elon pointed out that "dark is merely the absence of light," which did little to reassure the scared child.

Ashlee Vance