Indignities Quotes
21 quotes by 21 authors
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To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers,…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed. We have arrived…
— Arenda L. Wright Allen
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It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter…
— Mark Twain
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Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there…
— Moss Hart
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No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.
— Kelsey Grammer
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Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of…
— John D. MacDonald
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another…
— Gordon Allport
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We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others…
— Stephen Covey
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There are real indignities and real problems when all facets of life are controlled –when to get up, to eat, to shower-and chemicals are put…
— Judi Chamberlin
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The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced. It's one thing for me to be mistaken…
— Barack Obama
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These small indignities and minor cruelties take a toll. They add to the burden of stress and fatigue that is already present in the workplace…
— P. M. Forni
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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 want to be…
— Judd Apatow
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There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
— Herman Melville
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I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand…
— Nelson Mandela
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Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at…
— John Mortimer
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Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He…
— Jonathan Franzen
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Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.
— Rick Perlstein
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By indignities men come to dignities.
— Francis Bacon
Who Wrote These Indignities Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 21 Indignities Quotes as follows: