Embarrassed Quotes - Page 12

• I want children who feel embarrassed because they speak Spanish to realize that there are places where the beautiful Spanish they speak is an asset.

  Pat Mora

  Beautiful, Children, Want

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. “Well, children all have to belong to somebody,” he muttered. “Do you belong to someone?” “That’s different.” “Because you’re a grown-up?

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Shoes, Different

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• I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

  David Nicholls

  Emotional, Thinking, Stories

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• I mean, when you think about it, it's 'bombs bursting in air,' 'rocket's red glare,' it's all kinds of - you know a lot of national anthems are that way, too - all kinds of military jargon, and the land - there's only one phrase 'the land of the free,' which is kind of nice, and 'the home of the brave?' I don't know....Are we the only ones who are brave on the planet? I mean, all the brave people live here I mean, it's just stupid, I think. I'm embarrassed, I'm embarrassed every time I hear it.

  Bill Press

  Military, Nice, Stupid

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• Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it. We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Watches, Lord

  "The Root of the Righteous". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, p. 39, 1955.

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• When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

  Noah Baumbach

  Language, Our Family

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• My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.

  Mason Cooley

  Witty, Father, Earnest

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• When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.

  John Dos Passos

  New York, Men, Typewriters

  John Dos Passos, Library of America (Firm) (2003). “Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941”

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• Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Firsts, Fame

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• With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.

  Carl Pomerance

  Science, Mathematics, Unlikely

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• I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment.

  Benjamin Watson

  Law, Racism, Mind

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.15, NavPress

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• This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.

  Daniel Handler

  Love Is, Liking Someone, Trouble

  "Adverbs". Book by Daniel Handler, June 5, 2006.

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• I started lip-synching with "Losing My Religion." There were a few horrendous mistakes we made, but I own those mistakes. I'm embarrassed by them. I always say when I look back at anything I've ever done, it's with equal dollops of humiliation and triumphant glory.

  Michael Stipe

  Mistake, Looks, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the best of circumstances, the relationship is clear enough so that the mathematician can submit his or her reasoning to an informal checklist, passing from step to step with the easy confidence the steps are small enough so that he cannot be embarrassed nor she tripped up.

  David Berlinski

  Steps, Assuming, Enough

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• Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor.

  Brian Kernighan

  Sorry, Learning, Mind

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• Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.

  Thomas Sowell

  Love, Sex, Four

  Thomas Sowell (1999). “Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.

  Miles Davis

  Play, People, Might

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster

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• Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Women, Dope, Buying

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• One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Speak, Should, Third Person

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• For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.'

  Bruce Campbell

  Mean, Long, Hollywood

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• I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Past, Thinking, People

  "Dancing on Ice star Jennifer Ellison's guilt at being away from her son" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. January 14, 2012.

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• I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she is-she's a hero.

  Carrie Jones

  Mom, Hero, Used

  Carrie Jones, Steven E. Wedel (2011). “After Obsession”, p.303, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.

  Steve Almond

  Wise, True Friend, Heart

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• Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their attention. Neither should we hesitate to bring the simplest requests confidently to the Father.

  Richard J. Foster

  Children, Father, Parent

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss willingly and that our fall is cushioned by faith--faith that at the bottom we will be caught and taught and turned toward the light. I pray that we don't waste precious energy feeling ashamed of our mistakes, or embarrassed by our flaws. After years of teaching, I know only a few things for sure. One of them is this: We are chunks of dense matter that need to be cracked open. Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mistake, Teaching, Fall

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