Temporarily Embarrassed Quotes & Sayings

Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

How much farther?" I asked after we'd gone up one floor and through another ten minutes.
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"Uh ... I'm not exactly sure," Phaelan admitted.
I blinked. "What do you mean you're not sure? Where are we?"
"I'm not sure of that, either."
Phaelan looked slightly embarrassed. It wasn't a look I'd seen on him often, and considering what it implied, I didn't want to see it on him now.
I gaped at him. "We're lost?"
"I didn't say that."
"You didn't have to. You don't know where we are. That's called lost."
"The blueprints didn't include this floor. Besides, I prefer to think of it as temporarily misplaced. — Lisa Shearin

There's an answer, if you reach into your soul, and the sorrow that you know will melt away. — Mariah Carey

Forgiveness is an act of giving; it is an act of love. — Debasish Mridha

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — Ronald Wright

Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware. — Herb Goldberg

I never condone wrongdoing in any area — Bertie Ahern

Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.
I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew - at least they claimed to be Communists - couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves. — John Steinbeck

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon. — Sharon Horgan

Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage. — Henry Rollins

Follow your footprints long enough and they will turn into those of a beast. — Philipp Meyer