Embarrassment Quotes - Page 2

• 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 any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

  James Payn

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Together, Sad Valentines Day

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• One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

  Siegfried Lenz

  Balance, Made, Ready

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• I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

  Paul Tillich

  Atheist, Speak

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.58, University of Chicago Press

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• Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves... They do everything but watch television.

  Lewis Thomas

  Children, War, Army

  "A Long Line of Cells: Collected Essays".

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• I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.

  Anthony Weiner

  Mistake, Apology, Wife

  "In Politics: Weiner's Fall And Bachmann's Rise". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 17, 2011.

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• It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.

  Andrew Weil

  Real, Kids, Healthy

  "Are You An Adult Picky Eater?". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Thinking, Two, Movement

  Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.430, The Floating Press

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• If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'

  Penn Jillette

  Stars, Dancing, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Home, Adversity

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• I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.

  Willard Wigan

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "The Tiny World of Willard Wigan, Nano Sculptor". Interview with Benjamin Secher, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 07, 2007.

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• I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.

  Katie Holmes

  Kissing, Parent, Embarrassing

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• Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.

  Janet Morris

  Revenge, Hate, Power

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• I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.

  Noel Gallagher

  Voice, People, Musician

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• Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Sweet, Book

  "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller, (Ch. 21), 1903.

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• How embarrassing to be human.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Clever, Embarrassing, Humans

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.216, Penguin

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• I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

  Beth Ditto

  Able, Not Sure, Feels

  "Q&A: Beth Ditto". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2012.

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• There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

  Margaret Deland

  Listening, Fool, Persons

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• When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Effort, Done, Steps

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 155, 1799.

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• So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

  Josephus Daniels

  Men, Volunteer, Giving

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• Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

  Camille Paglia

  Wise, Men, White Man

  "Obama’s Hit — and Big Miss". Salon Column, www.salon.com. June 10, 2009.

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• The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

  Julian Barnes

  Land, Breakfast, Breakfast Being Important

  Flaubert's Parrot (1984) ch. 7

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• Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them.

  Timothy Leary

  Followers, Masters, Contempt

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.91, Ronin Publishing

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• Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?

  Tom Cruise

  Feelings, Glimpse, Tomorrow

  "Fictional character: Jerry Maguire". "Jerry Maguire", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

  Sid Vicious

  Dirty, Silly, Naughty

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