With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the… — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who do not realise humiliation achieve a lot tremendously, I'm starting to think my pride is in the way. — Daniyal Butt Copy Share Image
There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Someone undressed me, took off my stinky vomitty dress and my underwear, and put a nightie on me while I was unconscious.… — Lauren Henderson Copy Share Image
“Remember, this repentance, this willing submission to humiliation and a kind of death, is not something God demands of you before He… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public… — Pericles Copy Share Image
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I imagine witches to be people who sit around like my witty grandmother, people who are injustice collectors or humiliation collectors. I… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
What's comforting about coming from a family of actors is I don't have to explain the struggle. I can just sigh to… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
“He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“a regimen of hardship and humiliation that at least offered you the dignity of feeling like your existence bore some sort of… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Parliament will also struggle with Shakespeare. Rappers stutter too when they flirt. The palms of poised politicians sweat. Police officers fart. Princesses… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
I haven't read the comic book. I didn't even know there was one until about halfway though. Helen Mirren and I were… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
Humiliation, sexual harassment, fear and starvation was the order of the day until around 10 P. M. Interrogators made sure that I… — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The only intelligible language in which we converse with one another consists of our objects in their relation to each other. We… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I used to do things like white-water rafting, trekking and horse-riding safaris. Recently, though, I had the humiliation of having to turn… — Sarah Alexander Copy Share Image
I do not hide my feelings, though sometimes I get carried away. I can't remember what humiliation I had suffered at the… — Persis Khambatta Copy Share Image
I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“I suppose,” he said, his voice harsher than he had intended it to be, “you want marriage again.” “No,” she said quickly.… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
I would rather a sex tape make its way out than a video of me doing all of the different grunt sounds.… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
