My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Now all I thought of, as we spoke, was that today I’d be walking with Marzia and each time we’d try to… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Disabled people are now having to beg for small payments that once were held up as entitlements, and a way of making… — Mik Scarlet Copy Share Image
“for the modern indignity of travel—the promiscuities and vulgarities, the station and the hotel, the gregarious patience, the struggle for a scrappy… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities… — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
“To me, a world which thinks of itself in terms of puny, squalid, bickering little nations and not as one glorious field… — Michael Arlen Copy Share Image
I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible,… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced. It's one thing for me… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is,… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
I did get upset once, when we were hiking between pitches 15 and 16. Two women and a dog were trying to… — Andy Cairns Copy Share Image
During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We must act together, as a united people... For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let… — Patricia Young Copy Share Image
There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with -… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and… — Ai-jen Poo Copy Share Image
The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
These small indignities and minor cruelties take a toll. They add to the burden of stress and fatigue that is already present… — P. M. Forni Copy Share Image
There are real indignities and real problems when all facets of life are controlled –when to get up, to eat, to shower-and… — Judi Chamberlin Copy Share Image
I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do.… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
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