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
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 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
“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
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
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
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Parliament will also struggle with Shakespeare. Rappers stutter too when they flirt. The palms of poised politicians sweat. Police officers fart. Princesses… — Karl Kristian Flores 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… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“a regimen of hardship and humiliation that at least offered you the dignity of feeling like your existence bore some sort of… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I haven't read the comic book. I didn't even know there was one until about halfway though. Helen Mirren and I were… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
Humiliation, sexual harassment, fear and starvation was the order of the day until around 10 P. M. Interrogators made sure that I… — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation? What do you know of Love except the name? Love has a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
“No one has ever learned anything under conditions of humiliation. The moment you said anything humiliating, the lesson is over. They are… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
'Man Down' is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody… — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation,… — Emil Fackenheim Copy Share Image
“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“You will get exactly what you deserve Polly,” comes the firm reply, “you can trust me on that… But if you do… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are… — Rose Vane Copy Share Image
If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The next time you see a Muslim or Sikh at the airport, don't judge us - sympathize with us. Understand our humiliation… — Debbie Almontaser Copy Share Image
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I don't want to go back to the way I fucking was. I don't want to go back to being alone and… — Santino Hassell 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
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
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
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
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
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