Quotes About Being Squeamish

#1. In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

Thomas Sowell

#2. Just thinking about all that blood." I nearly shudder. "Doesn't it make you a bit squeamish?"
"Ladies haven't the luxury of being squeamish about blood," she replies, and Percy and I go fantastically red in unison.

Mackenzi Lee

#3. Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in it for the money, and the more concerned a doctor seems to be about making money the more suspicious people become about the care being provided.

Atul Gawande

#4. I was never one who was squeamish about nudity. I don't believe in being promiscuous about it, but several times I thought of going to a nudist colony.

Bettie Page

#5. I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

Oriana Fallaci

#6. I don't normally watch films I'm in because I'm squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I'm not being coy or cute, but it's just true.

Bill Nighy

#7. Our country [America] is still the strongest force for peace and freedom on earth.

William J. Clinton

#8. The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.

Dave Smalley

#9. I hate to feel squeamish almost as much as I hate to sit and think, both being sure-fire ways of getting into trouble. The only safe thing I know is to follow opportunity and leave the man behind to do the worrying. More people die lingering, ghastly deaths in arm-chairs and in bed than anywhere.

Talbot Mundy

#10. The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State Department who had misled him or allowed him to accept lousy advice.

Robert Dallek

#11. Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.

Jack Nicklaus

#12. My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, or writing letters. I'd think of her as a thief, stealing the tail end of the day, the hours nobody else wanted or used.

Marita Golden

#13. Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Douglas MacArthur

#14. Until then she hadn't considered that there was a trade off, that she might not fit anymore in places where she'd been comfortable.

Jodi Picoult

#15. A natural, polite smile deceives no one.

Ogwo David Emenike

#16. Million-mile-high club," Martinez said. "Nice!

Andy Weir

#17. A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

Stephen Hawking