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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. -- Paul Tillich
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. -- Douglas Engelbart
Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment? -- Tom Cruise
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. -- Theodor Adorno
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
The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance. -- Sid Vicious
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. -- Helen Keller
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. -- Steve Jobs
Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action. -- Jodi Picoult
Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act. -- Charles Jeffries
Embarrassment, or the risk of it, accompanies all your important choices. -- Roy H. Williams
Embarrassment has a lot to do with thinking too much. Let it go. Nobody cares as much as you think they do. -- Ryan Robbins
Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment -- Miley Cyrus
Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried hardest to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception. -- James Richardson
Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off. -- Sarah Addison Allen
I've generally got low levels of embarrassment. -- Caitlin Moran
Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment. -- Seth MacFarlane
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. -- Wilson Mizner
Well, that embarrassment gene, I don't really have a lot of it. -- Terry Crews
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment. -- Elizabeth Perkins
Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds? -- Rick Riordan
There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself. -- Margaret Deland
One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made. -- Siegfried Lenz
I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor. -- Ishmael Reed
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
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
So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training. -- Josephus Daniels
I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment. -- Amy Bloom
I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know. -- Derek Bok
But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya. -- Christian Bale
One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it. -- Neal Stephenson
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
I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. -- Leonard Susskind
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life. -- Suzanne Vega
Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians. -- Michael Dean Crapo
We have such an embarrassment of riches when it comes to choice. Do you want to hike in the Alps? There are 300 pairs of shoes you can order within the next 10 minutes. You have your choice of everything. -- Nick Offerman
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
I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family. -- Cybill Shepherd
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case. -- James Payn
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. -- Lewis Thomas
Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do. -- Chris Matthews
I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head. -- Emma Stone
There isn't anybody out there who doesn't have a mental health issue, whether it's depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore - for me. Just know that there is help and your life could be better if you go out and seek the help. -- Howie Mandel
Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other. -- David Dobkin
Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
A lot of things I have turned down ended up being a big embarrassment. Like that script, 'The Beaver.' I thought that was one of the worst scripts I had ever read. But everyone said, 'Ooh it's on the Black List.' Yeah, well, good for it. They're a bunch of idiots. I saw the final film, and there were no surprises. -- Terry Zwigoff
A simple compliment goes a really long way - for a guy to just come over and say, 'You have great hair' or 'I really like your dress,' and then just smile and walk away. That's a great move, because he's sort of putting himself out there by doing that, but it won't lead to any embarrassment if the girl isn't interested. -- Stacy Keibler
I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there. -- Dick Cavett
For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it. -- Tina Fey
Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing -- Yoda
I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing -- Katie Holmes
My films are about embarrassment. -- Alan Bennett
Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors. -- Amy Poehler
A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment. -- Janet Morris
The land of embarrassment and breakfast. -- Julian Barnes
There is no alarm clock like embarrassment, -- Maryrose Wood
One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability. -- Tom Price
I'm romantic to the point of embarrassment. -- Jesse L. Martin
George Bush has become something of an embarrassment. -- Tony Snow
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice. -- Luc de Clapiers
Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment. -- Marco Roth
If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge. -- Brent Weeks
In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me. -- Edgar Meyer
I'll die of embarrassment." "At least you'll die knowing. -- Sandy Hall
in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury. -- Fred Vargas
Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment. -- Terry Pratchett
All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
She switched from ecstasy to embarrassment at about Mach five. -- Kevin Hearne
I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment. -- Beth Ditto
Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away. -- Mason Cooley
Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment. -- Doug Larson
The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment. -- Simon Jenkins
For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame. -- Jason Segel
I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment? -- Jane Smiley
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. -- Laurence J. Peter
This is an embarrassment of riches, and boy, am I happy to be embarrassed. -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The NFL pension is the worst in the world of business. It's an embarrassment. -- Jim Brown
To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms. -- John Leonard
The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. -- Paul Schrader
One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical. -- Jim Peebles
Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment. -- Carl Andre
Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment. -- Colin Firth
It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry. -- Craig T. Nelson
What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be. -- Marilynne Robinson
The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you. -- Ben Morgan
So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ... -- Stephen Jay Gould
It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author. -- Theodor Adorno
You will be most effective when members can complement each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear. -- Peter R. Scholtes
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. -- Lance Armstrong
Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment. -- Gail Sheehy
I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons. -- Deb Caletti
Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment. -- Susan Piver
One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment. -- Alfred Doblin
Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both. -- Michael Holroyd
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you. -- Anne Lamott
I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about. -- Abraham Lincoln
If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.' -- Penn Jillette
Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses. -- Billy Bragg
Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment. -- Michel Faber
Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment. -- Neal Shusterman
Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign. -- Stephen King
Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade. -- Ron Paul
We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes. -- Marianne Williamson
Gay rights to me that is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment. -- Jodi Picoult
Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity. -- Cassandra Clare
I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside. -- Vanora Bennett
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If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment. -- Scott Adams
Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing. -- Portia de Rossi
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single. -- Charlotte Bingham
As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist. -- Christopher Hitchens
I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment. -- Ricky Gervais
My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension. -- Carrie Fisher
The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment. -- Mark Shields
But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time. -- Meg Cabot

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