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Last updated on November 19, 2024.
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.
When the day comes, I remember how much I loathe flying. I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.
You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.
You get older, you slow down. Failure feels like less of a humiliation and more of a balanced return.
It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.
Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.
If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn't know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.
The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.
Trump's relentless public humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions was clearly intended to get him to resign.
Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.
I immediately understood the general air of humiliation that comes with trying to do something as ridiculous as be an actor in Hollywood. It's just kind of an embarrassing endeavor.
Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.
As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.
My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.
Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.
The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.
In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.
It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
In the gap between who we wish one day to be
and who we are at present,
must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
Theres nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.
I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.
There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.
As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.
If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly -- Grandma Ruth
Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.
As the Ebola virus continued to consume my patients, I witnessed the horror this disease visits upon its victims, the intense pain and humiliation of those who suffer with it.
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation.
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation
Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.
I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
I have been subjected to constant harassment and humiliation by Mr. Abad Ponda with his sexist remarks and insulting comments.
I guarantee you [Hillary Clinton] is smoking in humiliation over the idea that she needs to heal and that [Donald] Trump's the guy to do it. That was great.
When humiliation begets heartbreak, your clothing permeates with a stench of desperation that only women can smell.
If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.
At the moment I'm just swallowing it all as part of the humiliation but I think - and this is aimed at my dear manager - one shouldn't humiliate players for too long
Here's a fact: I absolutely understand the humiliation of being stopped for no reason other than driving while black.
I'm all for the banalities of life and humiliation and everyday tragedies, but I also think people have big moments, and they have bigness in them.
Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.
I've never liked much of reality television, mostly because it involves humiliation.
China is one of the greatest cultures on Earth, and it is one of those countries that suffered immensely from colonialist horrors and humiliation.
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
