Quotes with embarrassment

  • Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
  • The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

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  • George Eliot But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Anthony Weiner 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
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Paul Tillich I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher (1886 - 1965)
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  • Bill Brandt Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Tony Benn Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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  • Margaret Oliphant 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
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Camille Paglia 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
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Douglas Adams The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Douglas Engelbart The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
    Douglas Engelbart
    American engineer and inventor (1925 - 2013)
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  • Al Capp The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Wilson Mizner To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • La Bruyere We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
    La Bruyere
     
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  • Bill Hybels When I lump all my sins together and confess them en masse, I neglect to feel the pain or embarrassment or shame that should be elicited in me.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Helen Keller Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. 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
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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