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Quotes About Spineless

I was only rarely called upon to say anything in the open battlefield, although at times Emma looked accusingly at me and made me feel that I might have offered more support had I been of a less spineless constitution
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah
Maskless duo of Delhi has neither misbehaved nor created ruckus, but told the truth against the injustice and like every truth speaker they have been framed in wrong case by spineless people.
~ Rameshh Shanegar
The couple who spoke against the worthless corona protocol in Delhi yesterday have real guts, rest of the people under brutality are spineless and mute spectators and those who are saying against those couple are morons.
~ Rameshh Shanegar
framing creates "a misguided belief that anyone who argued against such measures had to be, by definition, a villain trying to stop the innocent sufferers' champion from giving them their medication, a coward shying away from a full-blown war against an aggressor, or - even worse - one too spineless to stand up to Hitler.
~ Raymond Khoury
I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless.
~ Dennis Miller
For enjoyment is a weapon. The man who is capable of joy is capable, to a large extent, of changing his world. Joy is not a weak spineless idiot either. Its backbone is stronger than bitterness.
~ Jane Roberts
Adultery often happens, I am sure, because you are on a sinking ship, and you need to leap but can't leap. You are too spineless, maybe, to leap.The water is too dark and choppy and the sea is too large. Saving your own life, even, isn't enough reason to jump- no, you need the hands at your back, pushing, the hands of something as unavoidable and inevitable and imperative as love.It's got to be something that big, you know, to get you to jump.
~ Deb Caletti
As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
~ Orson Welles
Wishy-Washy Wimps are passive-aggressive individuals who are spineless wonders, lacking guts and backbone. They bend in whatever direction the wind is blowing and have difficulty making any decision.
~ Lillian Glass
His day, usually a jelly-like creature, a shapeless, spineless thing, had attained Mesozoic structure. It was marching along surely, even jauntily, toward a climax, as a play should, as a day should. He dreaded the moment when the backbone of the day should be broken, when he should have met the girl at last, talked to her, and then bowed her laughter out the door, returning only to the melancholy dregs in the teacups and the gathering staleness of the uneaten sandwiches.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
~ Frank Lautenberg
Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.
~ Maureen Johnson
Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.
~ Jesse Ventura
All the tut-tutters out there will say: She should have just left, bundled up what remained of her dignity. Take the high road! Two wrongs don't make a right! All those things that spineless women say, confusing their weakness with morality.
~ Gillian Flynn
It's poison," Yellowfang went on. "Rat droppings! Only a spineless bag of fur would accept such disgusting frogspawn
~ Erin Hunter
I mean, there aren't many inventions that actually succeed in meeting some human need. Ninety-nine percent of them are just some ugly combo of pushy marketing and spineless consumers.
~ Etgar Keret
Too many on the Left are earnest about nothing at all, sadly. They've been rendered spineless by snarkiness - not least on Twitter.
~ Mona Eltahawy
These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
You are a major dimwit. Is your brain made out of jello, you spineless twit? A leaf? What do you think I am, one of those magical raccoons? I'm a concept, get it? Con-cept! Concepts and raccoons aren't exactly the same, now are they? What a dumb thing to say...
~ Haruki Murakami
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
~ Stanislaw Lem
One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
~ Frank Lautenberg
If teenagers lack an articulate faith, maybe it is because the faith we show them is too spineless to merit much in the way of conversation. Maybe teenagers' inability to talk about religion is not because the church inspires a faith too deep for words, but because the God-story that we tell is too vapid to merit more than a superficial vocabulary.
~ Kenda Creasy Dean
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
~ James Baldwin
civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
~ James Baldwin