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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. -- Umberto Eco
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. -- Gustave Flaubert
When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at. -- Lena Dunham
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman. -- Larry David
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? -- Patrick Henry
I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles. -- Adam Sandler
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating. -- Ben Affleck
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. -- Ellen Key
Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears. -- Fiona Apple
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. -- Benito Mussolini
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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
Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish. -- Claire Danes
The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette. -- Oriana Fallaci
Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating. -- Jennifer Aniston
It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame. -- Roger Ebert
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life. -- Albert Camus
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. -- Christopher Hampton
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? -- Johan Huizinga
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid. -- Ruth Rendell
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them? -- H. G. Wells
Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun. -- April Winchell
Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them. -- Alain de Botton
What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel? -- Wendi McLendon-Covey
In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating. -- Zygmunt Bauman
I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend. -- Bruce Nash
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. -- Mark Twain
The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience. -- Ed Markey
But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background! -- Ernestine Rose
I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it. -- Joseph Stilwell
When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry. I hated my freckles, and I hated that name. I thought it was humiliating in the way that only a seven-year-old could hate it. -- Julianne Moore
Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
The Chinese public is deeply nationalist, which matters to China's unelected political leadership as much as U.S. nationalism does to American politicians. As China becomes the world's largest economy, there is meaningful public pressure for its power status to advance in parallel. Any alternative would be humiliating. -- Noah Feldman
You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty. -- John le Carre
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
It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies -- as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' -- can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost. -- Alfie Kohn
My behavior is humiliating. -- Danny Bonaduce
It's so damned humiliating. -- Mark Twain
My secrets are petty but humiliating. -- Mason Cooley
Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit -- Woodrow Wilson
It's humiliating to have to explain your value. -- Christine Vachon
If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating. -- Adam Savage
Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity. -- Anais Nin
It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying! -- Wendelin Van Draanen
I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating. -- Sarah Silverman
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end. -- Mignon McLaughlin
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy? -- Jeanette Winterson
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. -- Cesar Chavez
It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it. -- Charles E. McKenzie
It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating. -- Jessica Lange
O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts -- Salman Rushdie
There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities. -- Jerry Hall
There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker. -- Max Lerner
After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation. -- Jules Ferry
By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia. -- Jill Stein
Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us. -- Ravi Zacharias
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. -- Richard Hofstadter
... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others. -- Anais Nin
It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating. -- Jessica Lange
Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate. -- Fanny Fern
What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them? -- Walter Kirn
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while other write history. It matters little who wins. -- Benito Mussolini
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating. -- Amelia Barr
I just think it should be illegal to call someone fat on TV... Because why is humiliating people funny? -- Jennifer Lawrence
Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge. -- Madonna Ciccone
It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on. -- John Wyndham
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poetâ??s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. -- Oscar Wilde
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it. -- Chuck Daly
It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time, -- Mark Hoppus
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. -- Gamal Abdel Nasser
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
For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency. -- Stephenie Meyer
Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating. -- Nicole Kidman
I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work. -- Jeremy Camp
Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous. -- Ken Green
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But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic. -- James Branch Cabell
I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister. -- Alexei Navalny
The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents. -- Margaret Halsey
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made. -- Arundhati Roy
Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people. -- Diane Sawyer
I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events. -- Leonard Cohen
You can manage cancer. You don't have to be degraded by humiliating treatments and protocols. And in some cases, you can be cured of cancer. -- Suzanne Somers
Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations. -- Eduardo Galeano
I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class -- Pat Conroy
All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth. -- Ilka Chase
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
My mistakes do happen on a grand scale and very public level. They're humiliating, embarrassing. But if nothing bad happens to you, you'll just continue to act ridiculous. -- Christian Slater
They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press. -- Louise Jameson
I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion. -- Mike Tyson
That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature. -- Camille Paglia
Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary. -- Amos Oz
In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating." -- Zygmunt Bauman
If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital. -- John Irving
It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect. -- Nathaniel Branden
All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the dark possibilities in human nature. -- Michael Leunig
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made. -- Henry Flynt
The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression. -- Shashi Tharoor
It's naturally kind of humiliating and strange to have a microphone; when you're young you just make movies, you don't worry about all the peripheral stuff that comes with it. -- Don Hertzfeldt
Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it. -- Eugene V. Debs
our culture is definitely the eighth grade. It's run by eighth-grade boys, and the way these boys show a girl they like her is by humiliating her and making her cry. -- Merrill Markoe
Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He starts condemning people, he starts humiliating people. -- Rajneesh
You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating. -- A. S. Byatt
Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure. -- Ilka Chase
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
Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating. -- John D. Voelker
I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating. -- Lionel Shriver
As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter, and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness. -- Sarah Silverman
Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage. -- Thomas Merton
Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil. -- Toni Morrison
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
A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends. -- Eugene V. Debs
John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. -- Elie Abel
I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true. -- Stephen Sondheim
Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one. -- Samantha Bee

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