Cosseting Quotes & Sayings

God comes to us disguised as our life. — Richard Rohr

On books and friends I spend my money;
For stones and bricks I haven't any. — Ruskin Bond

The principled man is merely one whose ancestors were ruthlessly unprincipled, affording him the option of acting upon fine sentiments. — Lynn Cullen

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth. — Joe Wilson

Oddly enough, the very considerations that had made marriage impossible for him were mirrored in my own being: a rabidly independent nature, an impatience with lesser minds, total unconventionality, and the horror of being saddled with someone who would need cosseting and protection - the — Laurie R. King

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way. — Janet Street-Porter

16 In any case, we should live up to whatever truth we have attained. — Anonymous

The obvious difference between Paul and us is that Paul bragged about his weakness, and we try to hide it. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Princess Diana talking to Prince William about the loss of her title Her Royal Highness: She turned to William in her distress. She (Princess Diana) told me how he had sat with her one night when she was upset over the loss of HRH, put his arms around her and said: Don't worry, Mummy. I will give it back to you one day when I am king. — Paul Burrell

Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize. — F. Sionil Jose

The women take so little stock
In what I do or say
They'd sooner leave their cosseting
To hear a jackass bray ... — William Butler Yeats

Minds are like parachutes, they don't function unless they are open. — Philip C. Baridon

Man, a gigantic child, must play with Babylon and Nineveh, with Isis and with Ashtaroth. By all means let him dream of the Bondage of Egypt, so long as he is free from it. By all means let him take up the Burden of Tyre, so long as he can take it lightly. But the old gods must be his dolls, not his idols. His central sanctities, his true possessions, should be Christian and simple. And just as a child would cherish most a wooden horse or a sword that is a mere cross of wood, so man, the great child, must cherish most the old plain things of poetry and piety; that horse of wood that was the epic end of Ilium, or that cross of wood that redeemed and conquered the world. — G.K. Chesterton

The thought crossed her mind that a bed was really a very strange thing-a human nest, really, where our human fragility made its nightly demands for comfort and cosseting — Alexander McCall Smith

A man who has little personality has but little influence for good or otherwise. — Frederick T. Croonborg

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe. — Billy Corgan

The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else. — Zooey Deschanel

The gospels were, in fact, written anywhere from forty to a hundred years after Jesus, and their authors attempted to demonstrate that Jesus could be seen to fulfill various Old Testament pronouncements. — Jay Parini