Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely…

Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism…

— Gail Carriger

We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.

— Nelson Mandela

I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and…

— Margo MacDonald

The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking… the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

— Alexis Carrel

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't…

— Joan Didion

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

— Michael Chabon

“To me, a world which thinks of itself in terms of puny, squalid, bickering little nations and not as one glorious field for the…

— Michael Arlen

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the…

— Diane Lane

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where…

— Moss Hart

The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment.…

— Jonathan Franzen

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad…

— Vicki Baum

[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and,…

— Paulo Freire

It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into…

— Terry Rossio

I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work rather than…

— Phil Ochs