Embarrassments Quotes
10 quotes by 8 authors
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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be…
— Bjork
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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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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've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone…
— E L Doctorow
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The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory;…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply…
— Bernhard Schlink
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A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every…
— Cory Doctorow
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A dog — a dog teaches us so much about love. Wordless, imperfect love; love that is constant, love that is simple goodness, love that…
— Deb Caletti
Who Wrote These Embarrassments Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 10 Embarrassments Quotes as follows: