Gains Quote by Ignatius of Loyola

You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I…

— N.K. Jemisin

“Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?

— Michael Heseltine

Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than…

— B. C. Forbes

“Ignominy thirsts for respect.”

— Victor Hugo

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

— Victor Hugo

Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be free if…

— Samuel Adams

Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the…

— Iain Pears

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until…

— Philip Yancey

Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are…

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days…

— Saint John Chrysostom

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

— William Butler Yeats

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness,…

— Robert Walser