Washiness Quotes

#1. What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

David Dark

#2. In today's ambiguous world, character means despotism, tyranny, absolute intolerance. At last it is time to admire a lack of character, inner weakness. Our epoch is that of noble doubts, blessed uncertainty, sacred hypersensitivity, divine wishy-washiness.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#3. Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.

Theodore Roosevelt

#4. I'm in New York, land of the free and home of the brave, but I'm supposed to behave as if I were in Limerick at all times.

Frank McCourt

#5. But women aren't just bodies! ... boor! they're "companions" as well! what of their charms, their grace, their twitterings? sure, sure! if suicide appeals to you ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#6. There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world.

Martin Jacques

#7. Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books ... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites.

Lawrence Clark Powell

#8. Humanity cannot maintain value in their pitiful existence without blind obedience.

Lionel Suggs

#9. Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk to Ali, to get advice from Muhammad Ali, was privileged. He's always given me time to ask questions, although I was so in awe that I didn't ask questions.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#10. When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.

Daniel Woodrell

#11. All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#12. When I'm away from you I am lost.
But when I'm with you, I am lost in you.

Eliza Freed