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Quotes About Reassurance

Framing effects: Different ways of presenting the same information often evoke different emotions. The statement that "the odds of survival one month after surgery are 90%" is more reassuring than the equivalent statement that "mortality within one month of surgery is 10%." Similarly, cold
~ Daniel Kahneman
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
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God.
~ Danielle Girard
este es el día en el que Dios te dice: «No estás solo».
~ Dante Gebel
our Jews everywhere that they shouldn't worry: our old God still lives!
~ Dara Horn
Indie sat there without speaking for moment, then shook her head. "It's no problem," she said. "The thought that you might need it just makes me a little bit nervous, that's all. I'll be okay." He went
~ David Archer
If you try to put yourself in the position of a Roman of the late fifth century, it is easy to imagine how tempting it would have been to conclude that nothing had changed. That certainly was the optimistic conclusion. To have thought otherwise might have been frightening. And why come to a frightening conclusion when a reassuring one was at hand?
~ James Dale Davidson
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
When they'd settled into bed last night, everything had seemed good and safe. Yeah, maybe this was worse, to have that suddenly taken away.
~ James Dashner
El mundo parecía desvanecerse. Todo se volvió dulce y adormecido. Y la oscuridad, de algún modo, era reconfortante.
~ James Dashner
You're sure?" Newt prodded,
~ James Dashner
ain't nothing to worry about." -Alby
~ James Dashner
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
It must be admitted that when I turn around while driving our car and reply to my wife's protests that I can perfectly well see where I am going without having to look where I am going because the focus of outflow is implicit, she is not reassured.
~ James J. Gibson
Real religion," said Macmurray, has a different maxim: "Fear not; the things you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of.
~ James Martin
An invisible, bedrock rightness that reassured me just as it was reassuring to know that far away, whales swarm untroubled in Baltic Waters and monks in arcane time zones chanted ceaselessly for the salvation of the world
~ Donna Tartt
immediately allayed his fears, he gratefully recalled, by "the raillery
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
I am good?' said the strained treble. 'Thou art good,' said Francis Crawford in a dry voice.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
He would have felt safe if alongside the Dentrassis' underwear, the piles of Sqornshellous mattresses and the man from Betelgeuse holding up a small yellow fish and offering to put it in his ear he had been able to see just a small packet of cornflakes. But he couldn't, and he didn't feel safe.
~ Douglas Adams
Arthur tried to hold her hand to steady her and reassure her, but she wouldn't let him. He held on to his airline hold-all with its tin of Greek olive oil, its towel, its crumpled postcards of Santorini and its other odds and ends. He steadied and reassured that instead.
~ Douglas Adams
Don't Panic.' It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.
~ Douglas Adams
Do not be alarmed, I will not harm you.
~ Douglas Adams
Oh, hello, Arthur Dent here. Look, sorry I haven't been in for six months but I've gone mad." "Oh, not to worry. Thought it was probably something like that. Happens here all the time. How soon can we expect you?" "When do hedgehogs start hibernating?" "Sometime in spring, I think." "I'll be in shortly after that." "Righty-ho.
~ Douglas Adams
But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can. Mom... Dad... I'm okay. I am not being starved, or beaten, or unnecessarily frightened.
~ Douglas Coupland