quotes about Embarrassment
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For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.
-- Amy DavidsonSource : "Obama’s Speech: Guns and Government" by Amy Davidson Sorkin, www.newyorker.com. February 12, 2013.
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It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.
-- Arthur HillerSource : "Arthur Hiller, Director of 'Love Story,' Dies at 92" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 17, 2016.
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Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me ...
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.
-- Beth Ditto -
I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.
-- Brian Bosworth -
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I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.
-- Caitlin Moran -
I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?
-- Callan McAuliffe -
There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby.
-- Charlene WeirSource : Charlene Weir (1992). “The Winter Widow”, p.42, Macmillan
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Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act.
-- Charles Jeffries -
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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 BaleSource : "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.
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Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.
-- Colin Firth -
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 -
Here," she said. "This is for you." "I didn't really get you anything," I sputtered. "I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and--" "Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts.
-- David Levithan -
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
-- Edgar Meyer -
in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.
-- Fred Vargas -
Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.
-- Janet Morris -
For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.
-- Jason Segel -
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This is an embarrassment of riches, and boy, am I happy to be embarrassed.
-- Julia Louis-Dreyfus -
She switched from ecstasy to embarrassment at about Mach five.
-- Kevin Hearne -
Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.
-- Lynn Swann -
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 -
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There is no alarm clock like embarrassment,
-- Maryrose WoodSource : Maryrose Wood (2010). “The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling”, p.3, Harper Collins
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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
-- Paul Tillich -
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.
-- Robert Burns -
I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.
-- Robert Towne -
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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 -
George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.
-- Tony Snow -
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
-- Wilson Mizner -
It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.
-- Anna Robertson Brown LindsaySource : Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1803). “What is Worth While?”, p.10
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The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.
-- Ben MorganSource : Source: www.independent.co.uk
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It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical.
-- Jim Peebles -
Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.
-- Michael Holroyd -
Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment.
-- Marco RothSource : Source: therumpus.net
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