You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison.… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '? — Michael Heseltine Copy Share Image
“Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering,… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Molly works because, while Watson is ‘the audience’, Molly is every woman of a certain age sitting at home on the settee… — Louise Brealey Copy Share Image
They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
