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
“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
“Objectionable, tedious, irritating labour, - this is the condition of genius, which no doubt explains the reason why men so rarely achieve… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“All of this caused Kiyoaki constant pain. In comparison with Satoko’s public humiliation, however, he did not even have a slighting remark… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt… — James Weldon Johnson 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
And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image
“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of what they were, lying about… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring.… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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 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 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
“..:"Out of humiliation comes humility." Your humiliation brings forth humility that will enables you to be able to lead and live by… — Rafael Garcia Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
People didn't feel so much shame around it and that they didn't feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hopeand resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil,… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing,… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In the twenty-five years that have passed since the ending of the World War when the people of this country emerged from… — Tunku Abdul Rahman Copy Share Image
Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
“The strikes continue ruthlessly. I brace for each blow, numbering it as the heat subsides, and enjoying her tender exploration of my… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
The subject I liked best was painting, but the teachers didn't approve of my experiments and sometimes criticized me in front of… — Hiroshi Hamaya Copy Share Image
The Withdrawal Agreement - Theresa May's flagship policy, devised and drafted by Brussels, endorsed and supported by the entire Government machine -… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
Since the attachment to the cult of Islam is psychological, the solution must also be psychological. We have all the logical proof… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
