Namby Quotes

#1. You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys.

Lizzy Caplan

#2. Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. Roosevelt got a chance to name an amazing nine justices of the Supreme Court. He was not namby-pamby on this question. He wanted people who shared his views, he wanted liberals, and he wanted lots of them.

Noah Feldman

#4. Ambrose Phillips ... who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#5. Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.

Jane Fonda

#6. I'm a big Bruce Lee fan, and if I saw Bruce Lee try to be some namby-pamby lawyer, I'd want my money back.

Jason Statham

#7. Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.

Cokie Roberts

#8. 'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this picture eschews that Continental obsession with small stories, set in quaint towns filled with pockmarked folk doing their banal things.

Seth Shostak

#9. A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells ... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to incorporate the deepest insights of biologists, nerve scientists, psychologists, physiologists, linguists, social scientists, and even philosophers.

Tony Hoare

#10. When fate throws a dagger at you, there are ways to catch it. If you catch it by the blade, you can harm yourself. But if you catch it by the handle, you can use it to help you fight through the obstacles ahead.

Norman Vincent Peale

#11. It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Della Rae was a pig and she was smashed out of her skull and you didn't want to think about it,

Joyce Carol Oates

#13. The tone of his father's voice made Josh afraid to ask what it was he wanted to talk about, so Josh only

Tim Green

#14. You must be dumber than you think I think you are.

Robert Towne