In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and… — George Armstrong Custer Copy Share Image
Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. — Nigel Dennis Copy Share Image
Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I'm all for the banalities of life and humiliation and everyday tragedies, but I also think people have big moments, and they… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the… — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
The mistake we make with many people - not just Russia - is that we believe we have the model, and there… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Not only have our citizens endured domestic disaster, but they've lived through one international humiliation after another, one after another. We all… — Donald Trump 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
“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
“Dehumanizing and holding people accountable are mutually exclusive. Humiliation and dehumanizing are not accountability or social justice tools, they’re emotional off-loading at… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“I’ll never forget one of the first families I visited. The father was a railroad man who had lost his job. I… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, they think it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“To her the earth was composed of hardships and insults. She felt instant admiration for a man who openly defied it. She… — Stephen Crane 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 guarantee you [Hillary Clinton] is smoking in humiliation over the idea that she needs to heal and that [Donald] Trump's the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“In comparison to what I've suffered from myself, the humiliation and suffering inflicted on me by others vanishes into insignificance.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure… — William Greider Copy Share Image
People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
If you do not prepare yourself physically to succeed, you must prepare yourself mentally for the humiliation of failure. — Len Smith Copy Share Image
“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
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