Reassurance Quotes - page 2

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)
Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that it would be catastrophic if it did. You are tightening the coil of his anxiety, not loosening it. All to often, the Stoics point out, things will not turn out for the best. View quote
Oliver Burkeman
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. View quote
Simon Van Booy
When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there. View quote
Sherry Argov
Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone. View quote
Debbie Ford
Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong. View quote
Lauren Oliver
The cell phones in the pockets of the dead students were still ringing when we were told that it was wrong to ask why. As the police cleared the bodies from the Virginia Tech engineering building, the cell phones rang, in the eccentric varieties of ring tones, as parents kept trying to see if their children were OK. To imagine the feelings of the police as they carried the bodies and heard the ringing is heartrending; to imagine the feelings of the parents who were calling - dread, desperate hope for a sudden answer and the bliss of reassurance, dawning grief - is unbearable. But the parents, and the rest of us, were told that it was not the right moment to ask how the shooting had happened - specifically, why an obviously disturbed student, with a history of mental illness, was able to buy guns whose essential purpose is to kill people - and why it happens over and over again in America. View quote
Adam Gopnik
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. View quote
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. View quote
Kenneth More
Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail. View quote
Charles Sturridge
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)
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. View quote
Pope Theodoros II
Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort. View quote
Tom Shales
[Nelson] "... I get none of the things a man's supposed to get from a wife." "What are those?" Janice is truly interested; she has never heard a man spell it out. He makes a cross evasive face. "You know – don't play naïve. Reassurance. Affection. Make the guy think he's great even if he isn't." View quote
John Updike
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. View quote
Juliette Binoche
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. View quote
Umberto Eco
I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public display of privates. What is it for? What purposes of reassurance does it serve? The flashing of a badge, look, everyone, all is in order, I belong here. Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women? Some form of unbuttoning, some split-crotch routine, just as casual. A doglike sniffing. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood. View quote
Anaïs Nin
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. View quote
Steve Coogan
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. View quote
Zaha Hadid