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Quotes About Reassurance

Believe me, I'm not far.)
~ Diane Duane
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.
~ Diane Setterfield
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
In a country that's in a hurry to make the future, the names attached to the products are an enduring reassurance.
~ Don DeLillo
He reached across the table and touched her arm as he always did when he thought he might have said something wrong or cut her off. Don't listen to what I say. Trust my hands, my touch.
~ Don DeLillo
Great testimonials give future customers the gift of going second.
~ Donald Miller
Authority How can you reassure your customer you have what it takes to help them solve their problem?
~ Donald Miller
There you go. Now you know what you're really selling. You're really selling a worry-free home.
~ Donald Miller
As customers view our websites, commercials, or e-mails, they simply want to check off a box in the back of their minds that gives them confidence in our ability to help them.
~ Donald Miller
Beauty was where you found it, and it was always comforting to see.
~ Donna Leon
a great comfort faith can be to those left behind.
~ Donna Leon
even when I couldn't see it I liked knowing it was there for the depth and solidity it gave things, the reinforcement to infrastructure, an invisible, bedrock rightness that reassured me just as it was reassuring to know that far away, whales swam untroubled in Baltic waters and monks in arcane time zones chanted ceaselessly for the salvation of the world.
~ Donna Tartt
I never took it out...though even when I couldn't see it I liked knowing it was there for the depth and solidity it gave things, the reinforcement to infrastructure, an invisible, bedrock rightness that reassured me just as it was reassuring to know that far away, whales swam untroubled in Baltic waters and monks in arcane time zones chanted ceaselessly for the salvation of the world.
~ Donna Tartt
I would be less frightened of death (not just my own death but Welty's death, Andy's death, Death in general) if I thought a familiar person came to meet us at the door
~ Donna Tartt
The thing to remember," said Dave, the psychiatrist who had been assigned to me by the city, "is that you'll be taken care of no matter what." He was a thirtyish guy with dark clothes and trendy eyeglasses who always looked as if he'd just come from a poetry reading in the basement of some church.
~ Donna Tartt
Well, hey, you don't have anything to worry about then, do you?
~ Donna Tartt
Now look", my mother said. "When I feel myself starting to worry, I just tell myself, I will not worry about something that will never happen, and that always calms me, because most of the things we worry about will never happen. Why don`t you give that a try?
~ Unknown
She'll be OK,' I say to the man behind me. 'You sure?' he asks, and I hear him take another step back. It's always easy to convince people it's OK because if it isn't, they'd have to get involved. 'Yeah.
~ Unknown
On the news tonight the new President said there's no reason for anyone to worry about the situation. He didn't say which situation.
~ Unknown
There was one true thing. Madeleine. The relief was beautiful. He fell asleep imagining her hands in his hands, holding one another in the darkness.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
Keep telling yourself that, m'lady. Maybe you'll come to believe it.
~ Unknown
It wasn't like that, darlin'." [Darcy] said quickly. "I swear on my mother's soul it wasn't!" Bronte bit her lip, trying not to smile. "Your mother is still living, is she not?" Darcy grinned sheepishly. "Yes, but…just the same.
~ Unknown
Looking at the horizon again, I saw a lone figure coming toward me, but I wasn't frightened because I was sure it was my mother. As I got closer to the figure, I could see that it wasn't my mother, but still I wasn't frightened because I could see that it was a woman.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Or is there something else you'd rather have?" she asked, her voice a little too gentle. He felt a great dilation in his chest. "Oh, no!" he exclaimed with passion. "Oh, no!" "Very well then, let's see what we can do about it," she said, more than reassured; and suddenly she suspected in something like its full magnitude the long, careless denial, and the importance of the cap to the child.
~ James Agee