Quotes About Being Mushy

#1. Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

Laura Schlessinger

#2. If you quote a poem in a sermon today, some people think you are being mushy, but if you quoted one back in the day, people would have felt you were getting to the core of an idea, to the real, whole truth of it.

Donald Miller

#3. Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.

William Gibson

#4. One life can never know another's.

David Vann

#5. If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.

Emmanuel Jal

#6. The things you believe in only as real as the superstitions you follow.

Mara Joaquin

#7. The number of managers with great track records in a given market depends far more on the number of people who started in the investment business (in place of going to dental school), rather than on their ability to produce profits.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. I'm a woman of lip gloss. Estee Lauder has an amazing lip gloss line. But I even go as far as to use some Wet 'n Wild, you know, old school! It's kind of like whatever works. I find that with lip gloss, there really is no difference in quality there.

Sufe Bradshaw

#9. An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

Robert Gottlieb

#10. Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

Anna Quindlen

#11. Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the opposite: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as mushy.

Alain De Botton

#12. Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.

Richard Elman

#13. Fancy meeting you here," Jasper said.
"That is such a tired villain line, Jasper, and you know it," said Call.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

Horace Bushnell

#15. Love surprises us in unexpected ways, in ways that are beyond our comprehension. It's never the sweet words or the mushy gifts that matter. What matters more are little things like caring about someone and not being able to sleep till you're sure that the one you love is safe and sound.

Sudeep Nagarkar

#16. You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

Glenn Danzig

#17. Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

Terry Pratchett

#18. Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics it was either that or back to the dole queue on Monday. Sorry I missed the Wednesday lunch date, but I was in a black hole all morning.

Douglas Adams

#19. No one dared do it before, not in front of the King (opening sentence)

Gordon Thomas