Cushion Quotes - page 2

The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity. (Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair)
It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion. View quote
Evan Davis
I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror. View quote
Lynne Truss
To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite. View quote
Alexander Pope
Be strict and intelligently critical about yourself and your own weakness and follies. But, cushion your words and attitudes with Love. Love is the greatest persuasive power we know in life. View quote
Chinmayananda Saraswati
When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants. View quote
Tom Hanks
The joy, the tension, the exhilaration and the happiness those Sundays brought into our lives served as a cushion, I am sure, for the sterner life which was ahead for all of us. View quote
Learie Constantine
One time, my wife said to me, [imitating his wife] "Honey, the dryer is broken." [as himself] Did you check the lint trap? [imitating his wife with a clueless face] Sit down, honey, I'll check it. [as his wife] "Was there anything in there?" [as himself] There's a quilt in there. Look! You made a sofa cushion. View quote
Ron White
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion. View quote
Ellen Kushner
The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets. (Randy Pausch)
As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies. View quote
Harvey Mackay
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale