a cushion QUOTES

1 " Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)

2 " The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit. "

― Gretchen Rubin , The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

3 " Dinner was wonderful. There was a joint of beef, with roast potatoes, golden-crisp on the outside and soft and white inside, buttered greens I did not recognize, although I think now that they might have been nettles, toasted carrots all blackened and sweet (I did not think that I liked cooked carrots, so I nearly did not eat one but I was brave, and I tried it, and I liked it, and was disappointed in boiled carrots for the rest of my childhood.) For dessert there was the pie, stuffed with apples and with swollen raisins and crushed nuts, all topped with a thick yellow custard, creamier and richer than anything I had ever tasted at school or at home.
The kitten slept on a cushion beside the fire, until the end of the meal, when it joined a fog-colored house cat four times its size in a meal of scraps of meat. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Ocean at the End of the Lane

4 " OTHER lives may find their happiest moments infiltrated with tragedy, and their proudest touched with comedy. This had almost invariably been true of mine. My proudest hour found me, the newly elected president of the United Nations, perched atop three thick New York City telephone books given me in lieu of a cushion that I might see and be seen by the delegates below the podium. "

― Carlos P. Romulo , I Walked With Heroes

5 " Grass is food for elephants, but a cushion for lions. "

6 " We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to. "

― , A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

7 " 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 , Everwild (Skinjacker, #2)

8 " Laughter not only provides a cushion to our emotional hurts but also helps us in dealing with the jolts of life effectively. "

― Balroop Singh

9 " I want to see the king," I said, after explaining who I was." Wonderful," said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. " I'm glad for you." That was all, and apparently he meant to say no more. " Why are you so glad?" I asked." Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant. "

10 " Let your words to be a cushion to those who are around you, especially to those who are in a vulnerable state. "

― Euginia Herlihy

11 " 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. "