Pamby 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. They compose poems to their knives.

Frank Herbert

#10. The crazy thing is that I really wasn't under any pressure. My contract wasn't going to expire until the end of 2008, and everyone was satisfied with me. But I wasn't. I always wanted to improve.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#11. The love Adrian and I shared was powerful, and I knew it would sustain us for the rest of our lives, no matter what was to come.

Richelle Mead

#12. It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. We keep having moments, voice-in-my-head! You can't deny it.

Cara Lynn Shultz