Embarrassment Quotes
262 Embarrassment quotes by 231 unique authors
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Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
— Laurence J. Peter
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Unless people feel that they are accepted and that they have a right to express their feelings without fear of embarrassment or ridicule, all they…
— Stephen Covey
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Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act.
— Unknown Author
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Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.
— Doug Larson
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An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
— Unknown Author
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Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment…
— Michael Dean Crapo
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!
— Joan Benoit
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Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.
— Gail Sheehy
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Something peculiar has happened. As I write, none of the Republican candidates for Senate has become a public embarrassment. On the contrary: For the first…
— Matthew Continetti
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In so strong a light, nevertheless, do they appear to the Secretary, that, on their due observance, at the present critical juncture, materially depend, in…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and…
— Derek Bok
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Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the…
— Chris Matthews
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It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.
— Arthur Hiller
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I'm saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.
— Alanis Morissette
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I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't…
— Joe Biden
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Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.
— Colin Firth
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The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They're pale, tired, and unready. Too bad, since it's…
— Peggy Noonan
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Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in…
— Barack Obama
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It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made of neurons. It's…
— Daniel Dennett
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There is no alarm clock like embarrassment,
— Maryrose Wood
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It is the right to bear arms which is the problem. I think if the Founding Fathers knew what was happening they would be turning…
— Liam Neeson
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This is an embarrassment of riches, and boy, am I happy to be embarrassed.
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that…
— James Payn
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