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He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.
You get older, you slow down. Failure feels like less of a humiliation and more of a balanced return.
There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.
Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.
Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.
Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.
There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
When the day comes, I remember how much I loathe flying. I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.
Trump's relentless public humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions was clearly intended to get him to resign.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
When humiliation begets heartbreak, your clothing permeates with a stench of desperation that only women can smell.
Here's a fact: I absolutely understand the humiliation of being stopped for no reason other than driving while black.
If you do not prepare yourself physically to succeed, you must prepare yourself mentally for the humiliation of failure.
I have been subjected to constant harassment and humiliation by Mr. Abad Ponda with his sexist remarks and insulting comments.
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
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.
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
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.
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.
Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.
I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.
My son has been called many names, accused of many horrible crimes. As a father, I've borne all the humiliation that my son has undergone.
Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.
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.
The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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.
I take my kids to the farmer's market - knowing I'm buying local and fresh makes the humiliation of the little choo-choo train ride worthwhile.
When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
Raising the minimum wage would be a positive step in reducing poverty, the humiliation of living in poverty, and dependence on public assistance.
I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegian nightclub and having cans of lager thrown at me.
Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day.
Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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.
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.
All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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 am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.
The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?
You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good.
Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
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.
The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.
In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.
Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.