Coddled Quotes

#1. I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Susan B. Anthony

#2. He's living in a dream! Pandered to, and coddled, and utterly spoiled his whole life! That boy and the real world are entire strangers to one another!

Joe Abercrombie

#3. I don't need to be coddled and sheltered. I don't need all my battles fought for me. I do need to be believed in.

Loretta Chase

#4. My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.

Warren Buffett

#5. Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.

Alice Munro

#6. Hmm ... now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don't pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention.

Colleen Houck

#7. Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled and worshipped. You can do it again. If your house burned down with all your work inside it, you would still be the writer you are, and you would continue to be worth something.

J. Robert Lennon

#8. I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.

Ethel Waters

#9. Summer turns and marches away, fed up with being handled like a child. Like she's a glass doll that might break at any minute. She hasn't been a child since the day she was whipped into muteness. Anxiety might strangle her sometimes, but she's not some baby needing to be coddled.

Laura Kreitzer

#10. If he'd expected to be pampered and coddled through his undercover assignments, he would have gone to work for the CIA.

Julie James

#11. When it all comes down to it, though we may be accused of being coddled and cosseted, our consciences need to be right before God. If that is the case, we have nothing to fear or to apologize for.

Jasmine Baucham

#12. People are used to being coddled.

Phil McGraw

#13. It seems to me that Christians in the West are being coddled. We suffer little in the name of Christ. Therefore, we read the Bible not with a desperate hunger for evidences of God's triumph in pain, but with a view to improving our private pleasures.

John Piper

#14. I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.

Rupert Murdoch

#15. I don't like it if I am being held like a baby. If someone holds me normally, and I'm not being coddled, I feel much more comfortable.

Jyoti Amge

#16. The boys he met at Annandale only understood one kind of woman. They needed to be coddled and cooed over as their own mothers had done their whole lives.

Thomm Quackenbush

#17. I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone.

Christine Pelosi

#18. He was part of a ruined generation of young men coddled by their parents -by their mothers especially- raised on unearned self-esteem, in a bubble of overaffection, in a sad incubator of phony achievement.

Jess Walter

#19. To the deepest, most cellular level of my being, I resent people who believe that depression is the same as weakness, that "sad" people must be coddled like helpless toddlers.

Emery Lord

#20. Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Pierre Omidyar

#21. Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

Jean Webster

#22. Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.

Robert M. Pirsig

#23. Percy swallowed back his anger. He wasn't sure if he was mad at Annabeth, or his dream, or the entire Greek/Roman world that had endured and shaped human history for five thousand years with one goal in mind: to make Percy Jackson's life suck as much as possible.

Anonymous

#24. Instead of using forceful words like spend, sell, and make money, I've switched to more flowing words like invest, offer, and attract. The energy of these words makes me feel like I'm inviting money and success into my life instead of chasing after it.

Amanda H. Young

#25. Like so many things Henry had wanted in life
like his father, his marriage, his life
it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect. But he didn't care, this was all he'd wanted. Something to hope for, and he'd found it. It didn't matter what condition it was in.

Jamie Ford

#26. The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones, aren't they?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#27. That, darling, is the only thing that counts for someone to see more in you than you ever imagined was there.

Arthur Japin

#28. And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

Michael Newdow