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Quotes About Cushion

You could stuff a cushion with all that hair. I wonder if—" "Hold it!" I said.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets.
~ Rumi
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~ Ben Bova
I am Hindu, upper-caste, male, and able-bodied. So everything is on my side. That gives me the extra cushion that Swara Bhaskar won't get.
~ Varun Grover
But faith often helps cushion the blow of our mistakes, and God is always there to help us pick up the pieces.
~ Judith Pella
In some churches and religious television programs, we see an effort to make Christianity popular and always positive. This may be a comfortable cushion for those who find the hard facts too difficult.
~ Billy Graham
Bat Lady sat on a couch that looked as though it had been ready for the scrap heap during the Eisenhower administration. Her hair was still ridiculously long, cascading down her back and almost touching the seat cushion. She picked up a large book, an old photo album, and held it on her lap. "Well?
~ Harlan Coben
All cats love a cushioned couch.
~ Theocritus
General admission for groundlings—those who stood in the open around the stage—was a penny. Those who wished to sit paid a penny more, and those who desired a cushion paid another penny on top of that—all this at a time when a day's wage was 1 shilling (12 pence) or less a day. The money was dropped into a box, which was taken to a special room for safekeeping—the box office.
~ Bill Bryson
I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. I'm a financial success!
~ Joanna Kerns
This extra cushion of collateral became known as "overcollateralization." For example, if you started with $100 worth of Ajustabonos, the PLUS Notes would be repaid in full even the Ajustabonos dropped to $80 because Banamex ate the first $20 of losses.
~ Frank Partnoy
Bring forth the deadly dagger of death!' Gauchee and Kastern came forward, bearing between them a red silk cushion. On it lay a long dagger which glittered wickedly in the firelight. Rowanoak chanted in the background
~ Brian Jacques
Liberals would prefer it if the bald eagle on the Great Seal was holding olive branches in both talons, or, better, an olive branch in one, and maybe a soft cushion in the other, to entice our enemies to lie down and snooze.
~ Mike Gallagher
The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.
~ Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
Irene made a private mental resolution that if she ever became a queen, her throne would incorporate a cushion. Also a convenient bookcase.
~ Genevieve Cogman
if we are aiming to be genuinely self-reliant, we must learn to embrace uncertainty and anxiety. If we fail, there will be nothing to break our fall—nothing but whatever cushion we have managed to create for ourselves.
~ Susan Wittig Albert
Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.
~ Neal Shusterman
Eliminating or substantially lowering just one major monthly expense can give you enough cushion to move into a more comfortable place financially.
~ Jean Chatzky
The world is too harsh a place to contemplate directly, without a cushion of fancy and belief.
~ Kerry Greenwood
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
~ Carl Sandburg
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.
~ Carl Sandburg
There was a bright orange glove down there, the kind that lobstermen use. There was even a big lavender sofa cushion.
~ Carol J. Perry
Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.
~ George R.R. Martin
Sam was almost grateful for his fleshy buttocks. Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go, he thought.
~ George R.R. Martin