Humiliating Quotes - Page 7

• A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to the humiliating poverty in which millions of human beings live, from the proliferation of weapons to the pandemics and the environmental destruction which threatens the future of our planet.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religious, Humanity, Environmental

  Pope Benedict XVI's Urbi et Orbi Message, press.vatican.va. December 25, 2005.

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• How does it feel to be the 's third choice? Humiliating? You could have thrown a dart. That's how close they were. We had so many excellent candidates.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Choices, Doe

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• In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  People, Surround Yourself, Consumers

  "Passion and pessimism" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2003.

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• No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beer, Names, Cider

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• To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Self, Sick, Hazards

  Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it”, p.398, Vintage

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• A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Kindness, Men, Opinion

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• It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Doe, Fame

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.207, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.

  Joseph Conrad

  Laughter, Moving, Pride

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1116, e-artnow

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• Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Goes On, Body, Flesh

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.108, BookBaby

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• There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

  Max Lerner

  Cynical, Calendars, Crime

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• Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next position. You find yourself in very humiliating situations, but you can't judge yourself. You just have to breathe, and let go. It is a workout for your mind, your body and your soul.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Letting Go, Workout, Yoga

  "Hot Celebrity Bodies Shaped by Yoga", www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2012.

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• It's so damned humiliating.

  Mark Twain

  History

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Albert Bigelow Paine (2014). “The Mark Twain Autobiography + 3 Biographies: 4 Mark Twain Biographies In 1 Book: Chapters From My Autobiography By Mark Twain + My Mark Twain By William Dean Howells’ + Mark Twain A Biography By Albert Bigelow Paine + The Boys’ Life Of Mark Twain By Albert Bigelow Paine”, p.305, e-artnow

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• My behavior is humiliating.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Behavior

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• Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition it was humiliating, because it put you at a disadvantage, it gave the love object too much power. As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer.

  Margaret Atwood

  Falling In Love, Sex, Real

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Oryx And Crake”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Pride, Opportunity, Civilization

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, 1960.

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• I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah.

  Michael Chiklis

  Nice, Thinking, Jockeys

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Love, Business, Stupid

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• What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?

  Walter Kirn

  Cold, Bones, Chickens

  Walter Kirn (1993). “She Needed Me”

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• It's a pretty humiliating thing when you get picked last every day in gym class and then at lunchtime all the kids play sports and you get picked last. At the time I just thought, "This is awful," because it defines you as a weak person. It defines you with girls and if you're bad at sports, you get into this funny cycle where the ball never gets to you because now you're in the worst position, you're in deep right field, so you can never prove that you got better, so the cycle lasts forever.

  Judd Apatow

  Girl, Sports, Kids

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The trouble with audition process is, when you're an unemployed actor, it's the only time you get to act, and it can be quite fun. If you feel in control of the material and you feel that the people are pleased to see you and are excited by you auditioning for them, it can be a really rewarding process. But it can also be a very humiliating process.

  Olivia Williams

  Fun, People, Trouble

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Usually the casting process is lengthy and humiliating, but in this instance, The Ghost Writer, it was just too easy. I was sitting in a rental car on an L.A. street and my cell phone rang, and it was Roman Polanski on the line. I couldn't really believe my luck. He said, "See you in Berlin." I sat staring at a palm tree, thinking how surreal that was.

  Olivia Williams

  Believe, Thinking, Car

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary. In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, People, Compromise

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I think the fear of humiliating yourself on stage always motivates me to give at least 90 percent. I've definitely been guilty of leaning on the mic stand, but you can only do that so long before you're like, "Jesus, I'm bombing." The fact that people pay to come see me, that's really just out the window.

  Bill Burr

  Jesus, Thinking, Giving

  Interview with Matt Wild, www.avclub.com. June 15, 2011.

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• If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my poems as meant to be overheard, as I think all of these poems are. It seems to me if you get experience right, even your most painful or humiliating experiences - if you get those experiences right for yourself and make discoveries as you go along and find for them some formal glue - they will be poems for others.

  Stephen Dunn

  Dirty, Writing, Exercise

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think as we look at this problem of ISIS, it's more than just an army. It's also a fight about ideas. And we have got to dry up their recruiting. We have got to dry up their fundraising. The way we intend to do it is to humiliate them, to divorce them from any nation giving them protection, and humiliating their message of hatred, of violence. Anyone who kills women and children is not devout. They have - they cannot dress themselves up in false religious garb and say that somehow this message has dignity.

  James Mattis

  Religious, Children, Divorce

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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