As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering. — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Ambitious humans! We seek the glory of being heroes without first the service of being helpers...and find only humiliation.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
“Let them be spattered in humiliation, be spattered in corruption; let them hear the dirge that spills from my lips, once those… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“So the question is, what can I do to motivate you, Polly?” She eyes me salaciously and I drop my gaze, unable… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
“I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“How despicably have I acted!” she cried. “I who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Right.” He slowly stood up. “This is new territory for you. Stupid sequestering, the Keepers better not have turned you into a… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
“If only I could tell someone. The humiliation I go through when I think of my past can only be described as… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's quite frightening; the business of trying to be funny is very hairy. In comedy, the potential for humiliation is huge. Trying… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“The most brazen humiliation ever inflicted upon God and mankind, justifying all the curses of the synagogue, is to be found in… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What right, she kept demanding of herself, had Clare Kendry to expose her, or even Gertrude Martin, to such humiliation, such downright… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very… — Marta Copy Share Image
I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough.” — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“Good choice, Polly,” she soothes, caressing my long, dark hair. “You may not have been fucked by a woman before but, if… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
