Humiliating Quotes - Page 4

• The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness.

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Beautiful, Night, Light

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.72, Heinemann

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• He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

  Anais Nin

  Ridiculous, Pity

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• It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Feet, People, Cry

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (1921). “Rilla of Ingleside”

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• Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.

  Jim Butcher

  Jobs, Work, Games

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.14, Penguin

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• O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

  Salman Rushdie

  Shame

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.

  Angela Davis

  Personality, Events, Generations

  "Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia". Critical Inquiry, Volume 21, No. 1, Autumn, 1994.

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• I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.

  Amanda Burton

  Reality, Thinking, Magazines

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• I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe. I felt like a nickel.

  Nolan Ryan

  Home, Thinking, Cities

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• In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world.

  Eugene V. Debs

  People, Roles, World

  "You Railroad Men". Essay by Eugene V. Debs (February 3, 1906); published in Eugene V. Debs "Debs, His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations", 1908.

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• Muslims are very keenly aware of the history of their community, of the history of that relationship between their community and the rest of the world. And they have had this all through the centuries and are very much heightened by modern communications. I mean now you have Muslims in the Muslim world who can compare their situations with people elsewhere and they find that very humiliating.

  Bernard Lewis

  Communication, Mean, People

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• Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...

  Woodrow Wilson

  Benefits, Segregation

  Defending the re-segregation of federal offices, in Conference with members of the National Association for Equal Rights, November 1914.

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• We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.

  Umberto Eco

  Escaping, Want, Way

  "'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.

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• Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more certain common good than can be attained by bombs and blood. Nonviolence, ideally speaking, does not try to overcome the adversary by winning over [them], but to turn [them] from an adversary into a collaborator by winning [them] over.

  Thomas Merton

  Winning, Blood, Trying

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.192, Macmillan

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• Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Humble, Able, Flattering

  Ravi Zacharias (2005). “Recapture the Wonder”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

  George Ayittey

  Lying, Aids, Salvation

  "Expert: Africa Needs More than Foreign Aid". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. July 6, 2005.

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• Of course the welfare of our children is a legitimate state interest. However, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples fails to further this interest. Instead, needlessly stigmatizing and humiliating children who are being raised by the loving couples targeted by Virginia's Marriage Laws betrays that interest. E. S.-T. [the 15-year-old daughter of two of the plaintiffs], like the thousands of children being raised by same-sex couples, is needlessly deprived of the protection, the stability, the recognition and the legitimacy that marriage conveys.

  Arenda L. Wright Allen

  Daughter, Sex, Couple

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• Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world around us, or to the monitor within the breast; whether we read, or hear, or act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.

  William Wilberforce

  Thinking, Views, Looks

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but because she has come to know that for eight years she had lived with a stranger and borne him children. Can there be anything more humiliating, more degrading than a life-long proximity between two strangers? No need for the woman to know anything of the man, save his income. As to the knowledge of the woman-what is there to know except that she has a pleasing appearance?

  Emma Goldman

  Marriage, Husband, Children

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.5, The Floating Press

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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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• 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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• Beer and other forms of alcohol will do you no good. Their use will be expensive, will dull your conscience, and could lead to the disease called alcoholism, which is humiliating, dangerous, and even deadly.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beer, Alcohol, Use

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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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