When I was growing up, I didn't know of anybody who was trans. There was always, like, this shame, anxiety thing around… — Teddy Geiger Copy Share Image
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater. That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes, Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
“ Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet . Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in… — Johannes Kepler 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
If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Guys who would make fun of girls for sexual inexperience are terrible people, and when girls do it to other girls it… — Katie Heaney Copy Share Image
Getting into my teen years, I was filled with so much shame and pain that I got really involved with drugs and… — Pattie Mallette Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to write about madness. I always figure that whatever most embarrasses you is something that everyone can relate to,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Jude never loved Locke.' My face feels hot, but my shame is an excellent cover to hide behind. 'She loved someone else.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, to this day,… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice of the self is the source of all humiliation, as also on the contrary is the foundation of all true exaltation.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Dad was the generation that fought in both world wars, and people married rather later when they had been in the trenches.… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the… — Jeremy Corbyn 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
“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
“She's not ashamed of loving, although those she's loved are few in number; it was/is sweet and true. She's only ashamed she… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even if I whispered, Blaz would hear and right now I didn’t want anyone to know. I already know, you twit. Hot… — Shannon Mayer 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
I had a lot of guilt and shame when I was running from God, but nothing like when I was running for… — Jud Wilhite Copy Share Image
We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
My fellow players are sometimes occupying the spaces I want to play in. That forces me to adjust my runs, based on… — Robin van Persie Copy Share Image
Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth,… — Jena Morrow Copy Share Image
Disgust and shame are inherently hierarchical; they set up ranks and orders of human beings. They are also inherently connected with restrictions… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Family is supposed be there for you no matter what comes your way. Shame on the ones who are not, that's is… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Shame on us if 100 years from now our grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by Global… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince… — Owen Hart Copy Share Image
Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance. — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
