“Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation… — Quintin Jardine Copy Share Image
One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Here's a fact: I absolutely understand the humiliation of being stopped for no reason other than driving while black. — Darryl Glenn Copy Share Image
As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to… — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegian nightclub and having… — Sean Maguire Copy Share Image
I've struggled so much in my life and I've seen so much of rejection, insult and humiliation, that it can turn into… — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are… — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Copy Share Image
“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“In fact, all of us are very susceptible to having our humiliating experiences turn to shame, especially when the person who is… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
There was humiliations, cruelty, abuse, violence. And they were all the time trying to put to fight the prisoners one against the… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world.… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
“As she uttered the words of the prayer, she glanced up at him as if he were God Himself. He watched her… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I don't think losing things - in my case, the use of my legs - really damages or hurts you. What hurts… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“Azevedo Bandeira is an expert in the art of progressive intimidation, in the satanic maneuver of gradually humiliating his interlocutor by combining… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to… — Osyp Nazaruk Copy Share Image
Banks were already seen as greedy and arrogant. They have now reached the depths of humiliation in the wake of the LIBOR… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and… — Anna Maxted Copy Share Image
The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Ireland is not in a good place at the moment. We have our own humiliation of losing our economic sovereignty, and we're… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“When walking into a room, worry not. Everyone else is afraid. People are scared of people who are scared of people.” — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
“Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I am who I am despite what America has put before me. I am who I am despite the obstacles that we… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate… — Liu Xia Copy Share Image
You know, we'll hardly get our feet out of time [and] into eternity that we'll bow our heads in shame and humiliation.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it... You can insist on… — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image