Cushions Quotes - Page 5

• Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood, rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is all like a monkey grasping at the moon reflected in the water.

  Shoitsu Omatsu

  Life, Moon, Night

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• You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the bottom of the boat, and encourages the rowers by telling them anecdotes about the marvellous feats he performed last season.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Hands, Rivers

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.263, Diderot Publishing

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• In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhist, Practice, Meditation

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• On the hob was a little brass kettle, hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a warm, thick rug; before the fire was a folding-chair, unfolded and with cushions on it; by the chair was a small folding-table, unfolded, covered with a white cloth, and upon it were spread small covered dishes, a cup and saucer, and a tea-pot; on the bed were new, warm coverings, a curious wadded silk robe, and some books. The little, cold, miserable room seemed changed into Fairyland. It was actually warm and glowing.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Book, White, Fire

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Racketty-Packetty House and Other Stories”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Book, Paper, Stones

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country... That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Country, Real, Impact

  "ABC Paints Obama as Victim, Stephanopoulos Echoes Emanuel on Greatest Success". www.newsbusters.org. April 29, 2009.

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• We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

  Uplifting, Prayer, Pain

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• As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible, his punctuality at meal times is admirable, and his pertinacity in jumping on people's shoulders till they give him some of the best of what is going, indicates great firmness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Cat, Jumping, People

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Disappointment, Adversity, Impact

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• The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Giving, Empathy

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• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fancy Cars, Anxiety, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.60

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• In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.

  John Grogan

  Dog, Fall, Joy

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• I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.

  Marlo Thomas

  Husband, Book, Kids

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• Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. .... There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.

  Melanie McGrath

  Army, Winter, Government

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• Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

  Marisha Pessl

  Teenager, Vacuums, Foam

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.130, Penguin

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• I'm not saying this because I'm looking for a soft cushion wherever I'm heading, I just feel that I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS. Like the others before me, I would like to turn my own problem into something good that will reach out to all my homeboys and their kin. Because I want to save their asses before it's too late.

  Eazy-E

  Real, Fans, Too Late

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• Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.

  Ann Coulter

  Love, Country, Hate

  "Liberalism and terrorism: Different stages of same disease?" by Ann Coulter, www.jewishworldreview.com. July 4, 2002.

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