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.
Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.
Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
It's humiliating to have to explain your value.
By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.
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.
It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.
O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts
If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there [Hollywood] weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.
It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
Beer and other forms of alcohol will do you no good. Their use will be expensive, will dull your conscience, and could lead to the disease called alcoholism, which is humiliating, dangerous, and even deadly.
Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating. . . yet so joyous.
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
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.
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.
When it came down to doing the nude scene, I couldn't hide how humiliating it was for me; I burst into tears.
Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.
Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.
