Shamings Quotes & Sayings

It had been a long while since I'd watched any television, and things had only gotten weirder. Beauty pageants for infants; ruddy men in trucker caps fighting over abandoned storage lockers; public shamings of compulsive hoarders and pre-diabetics; affluent suburban women made up like transvestite hookers, competing with each other in feats of coarseness and cruelty; barely literate pregnant teens with tattoos, unfocused eyes, and futures like wrecked cars; apoplectic crypto-fascists spitting bile and paranoia; a carnival midway of weight loss devices, hair growth creams, erectile dysfunction potions, and pottery from which herbs grew like green hair. It was like the day room of a surrealist mental hospital, or any big city ER on a summer Saturday night. — Peter Spiegelman

Love's whispers drown out sorrow's echoes. — Matshona Dhliwayo

How is it that with everything that's happened in my life, this girl is going to be the thing that undoes me? — Katja Millay

In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people of the world cannot be over estimated. — Duane Elgin

In my dream, the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination
and then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand. — Brian Andreas

You sure you don't want me to stay? I'll make you coffee and ask you about your day. — Ilona Andrews

The Framers [of the Constitution] ... created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself. — William O. Douglas

There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world. — Zakes Mda

I try to fill the emptiness deep inside me with Cheetos, but I am still depressed. Only now my fingers are stained orange. I am blue. And I am orange. — Karen Salmansohn

Adults do not forget the horrors and shamings of their childhood, but those feelings tend to lose their immediacy — Stephen King

We know that Donald Trump has shown a very troubling willingness to back up [Vladimir] Putin, to support Putin, whether it's saying that NATO wouldn't come to the rescue of allies if they were invaded, talking about removing sanctions from Russian officials after they were imposed by the United States and Europe together, because of Russia's aggressiveness in Crimea and Ukraine, his praise for Putin which is I think quite remarkable. — Hillary Clinton

One out of one-fifty. That's how unlucky I am. — Krista Ritchie

I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. — Jon Ronson

The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body. — Conn Iggulden