Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime…

That moment of embarrassment when you wave at someone but they don't wave back.

— Anonymous

A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about…

— Martine Franck

The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment.

— Simon Jenkins

[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself. The…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.”

— Meg Cabot

A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive…

— George Ade

“I understand how families become estranged, not by design, but by embarrassment. You come to a point when so much time has passed that…

— Michelle Richmond

That awkward moment, when you're out in public and you hear someone call your name. Just to turn around and figure out that it…

— Emma Swenson

I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“-I die. Before I die my body turns hair-side-in. People come from everywhere to see the insides of themselves. But the sight makes them…

— Joe Haldeman

One day each scene that you spent in this life will flash before you, make sure you're not embarrassed watching.

— Senora Roy

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ...

— Stephen Jay Gould

“George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw…

— Mette Ivie Harrison

So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Having no regrets is very unrealistic. Everyone has that awkward or embarrassing moment they wish they could take back.

— Jayden Hayes