Wussifies Quotes

#1. I hope that nothing ever wussifies me to deny my own personal beliefs. Brainwashed wussies have been taught that standing up for yourself and defending your personal point of view makes you a close-minded hate monger. One must also be respectful of dissenting belief while supporting their own.

Brad Stine

#2. I would have much rather been in the jalopy with the kids, going to Hunt's for hamburgers. But, when I entered high school, all my friends got into sororities and fraternities and I didn't.

Betty Friedan

#3. There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
- Seneca

Seneca.

#4. It occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

Bill Bryson

#5. No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything.

Jonathan Kozol

#6. There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

Kirby Larson

#7. My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

Arabella Weir

#8. She's sweet on Wagner.
I think she'd die for Beethoven.
she loves the way Puccini lays down a tune,
and Verdi's always creeping from her room.

Electric Light Orchestra

#9. I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on.

Nick Cave