I'm not sure if I could bear to go on an aeroplane again. It's not my concern for the welfare of the… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“And if you share that humiliation, there’s the chance the person will use it against you at the first opportunity. Or they’ll… — Lorelei James Copy Share Image
Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Some people enjoy humiliation. Maybe I used to be one of those people, but I don’t feel humiliation anymore. The body sloughs… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
The withdrawal that Congress is debating now will only effect whether we leave somewhat gracefully or in complete panic and humiliation. Sistani… — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
During episodes of unemployment I find it rewarding to sleep as much as possible-anything from twelve to fourteen hours a day is… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
People are tired of the humiliation that they don't want to be perceived as weak within the international community. And they are,… — Clarissa Ward Copy Share Image
America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
In order to attract us, the Lord grants us many graces that we believe can easily obtain Heaven for us. We do… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
And here I thought they were called Peeping Toms." I didn't need to see him to know he wore a smile. "Stop… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Studies show that the fear of public humiliation is a potent force. During the 1988-89 basketball season, for example, two NCAA basketball… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
The recession of the late 1980s was a very visible humiliation. Cities across Britain had become the victims of botched battlefield surgery… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
“The idea that humiliation is some capital crime of the spirit is a fiction. The sentences we hand down for losing control… — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation,… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly.… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
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 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