“ The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character, Everything must give way to that… ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
- 996
“ When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can. ”
- Chubby Checker- Copy
- 855
“ There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. ”
- Drew Barrymore- Copy
- 3.2K
“ In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. ”
- Henri Bergson- Copy
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“ I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying. ”
- Lillie Langtry- Copy
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“ A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. ”
- Jane Pauley- Copy
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“ It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that. ”
- Richard Nixon- Copy
- 3.6K
“ There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away. ”
- Ken Kesey- Copy
- 75
“ There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee...that says, fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ It is a shame that when we have a good dream we are asleep at the time. ”
- P.K. Shaw- Copy
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“ I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right — shame on you! ”
- Louis Armstrong- Copy
- 243
“ I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you. ”
- John Owen- Copy
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“ What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ A man may for a time lay a curb and restraint upon his lusts, so that they do not come forth into action, even without the powers of mortifying grace. A man may bridle a lust for many years, and yet the lust remains unmortified. Therefore, I say, do not count the restraining of a sin to be the mortifying of a sin. ”
- Christopher Love- Copy
- 399
“ It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
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