Humiliation And Conscience Quotes & Sayings

I was neither good in sports nor at studies, but I always wanted to stand out and be noticed. — Anupam Kher

For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor. — Doug Davidson

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. — Wallace Stevens

A mischievous biologist might wonder whether some other physicists are in need of Darwinian consciousness-raising. — Richard Dawkins

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand. — George MacDonald

It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being. — Laura Schlessinger

You said,' Camille protested, 'that when you wanted to get on terms with Gabrielle you cultivated her mother. It's true, everybody saw you doing it, boasting in Italian and rolling your eyes and doing your tempestuous southerner impersonation. — Hilary Mantel

Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations. — Abdolkarim Soroush

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward. — Jim Coleman

Sometimes it even seemed to him that this "idiot's tale" had captivated the ordinary person to a significantly greater degree than the circumstances of his or her actual life. Practically everyone Filippov knew liked to talk about what in no way affected them personally. It was as if they'd erected a fortress wall around themselves - a Great Wall of China of inexhaustible nonsense. They'd barricaded themselves in the inner courtyard of their paltry and, as it doubtless seemed to them, insignificant lives. While leaving this clumsy but inevitable self-humiliation on their conscience, Filippov nonetheless pitied those ordinary people. He — Andrey Gelasimov

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. — Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Bennett licked and sucked the skin around my hipbone. "A tattoo would look sexy right here. And I'd be the only one to see it - when I did this. — Christina Lee

Do not take someone's silence as his pride,perhaps he is busy fighting with his self — Ali Ibn Abi Taleb

I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation. — Abdullah Of Saudi Arabia