A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
My fellow players are sometimes occupying the spaces I want to play in. That forces me to adjust my runs, based on… — Robin van Persie Copy Share Image
Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth,… — Jena Morrow Copy Share Image
We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
Disgust and shame are inherently hierarchical; they set up ranks and orders of human beings. They are also inherently connected with restrictions… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Family is supposed be there for you no matter what comes your way. Shame on the ones who are not, that's is… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes,… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Kaufman terms the “internal shame spiral.” He describes it as follows: A triggering event occurs. Perhaps it is trying to get close… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
We're talking about everybody's free right to have choice. And so what we're also getting are interesting messages like you really need… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
I believe one of our souls' major purposes is to know, love, and express our authentic selves. To live the life and… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
We must never mistake the process for the result...there is suffering; but this is only the process. God isn't going to stop… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“She's not ashamed of loving, although those she's loved are few in number; it was/is sweet and true. She's only ashamed she… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If only I could tell someone. The humiliation I go through when I think of my past can only be described as… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I had a lot of guilt and shame when I was running from God, but nothing like when I was running for… — Jud Wilhite Copy Share Image
“Even if I whispered, Blaz would hear and right now I didn’t want anyone to know. I already know, you twit. Hot… — Shannon Mayer Copy Share Image
Shame on us if 100 years from now our grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by Global… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince… — Owen Hart Copy Share Image
O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance. — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
For some people, loud advocacy of Trump helps to cover up the deep doubt and even shame they feel about their support… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I'm first-generation American - my people came over on boats - and I think it's a shame to close the door on… — F. Murray Abraham Copy Share Image
“There is the family of our birth and then there is a more noble world to which we really belong; the richness… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Between celebrities such as Michelle Obama, Amy Schumer, Gabrielle Union, Brooke Shields and others sharing their stories, it seems the shame of… — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
