Best 131 quotes in «embarrassment quotes» category

The position could not have been made clearer, whatever had been said, not only to those directly involved but to Sasha, Nyusha and Bacchus; their painful embarrassment communicated itself even to the mare, the foal, the golden rays of the setting sun and the gnats buzzing and swarming around Helen's face and neck.

There are some socks that shouldn't be washed by your mom.

There’s no lonelier feeling than when a crowd of people is staring at you and there’s nowhere to hide. But you know what you do? You take your lumps and then give it another shot the next time. A better shot. That’s all you can do.

They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in Grease when Sandy says hello to him in front of the T-Birds, a Mrs. Robinson when she tells Elaine she didn't seduce Benjamin, a Daisy when she chooses Tom with the disposition of a sour kiwi over Gatsby, a self-made man, a man engorged with dreams, who didn't mind throwing a pile of shirts around a room if he wanted too. My heart landslided. My legs earthquaked.

There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman...[the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to tap resources that simply weren't there.

They probably have me up on a poster by now. Warning: this girl is emotionally unstable. Do not allow near hot beverages.

True poetry is embarrassing.

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

What is embarrassment? In general, embarrassment is an emotional response to an innocent mistake. The major reason that some of us are embarrassment-prone is that we’ve been conditioned to set unrealistically high expectations for ourselves and to judge ourselves negatively when we can’t possibly meet those standards. A second reason that makes us susceptible to embarrassment is that we’ve been taught to take our cue in evaluating ourselves from what we assume (often erroneously) to be others’ opinions of us.

What is there to tell? She kept rolling out words and I kept listening.” “What did she say? What did you say?” “I could hear not a single word that she uttered. What did I say? I could say nothing. Friend! My senses and judgement, self-restraint, peace, my entire strength - all deserted me. I ran to her and stood before her with folded arms like a slave. O Jitaji, like the moth that flutters around the candle I offered my life as a sacrifice to her.

Where are you guys getting all of this?" I asked. "What does it matter if I - oh come on." We'd reached the lobby and found Eddie and Micah sitting on a bench together. They at least had the decency to look embarrassed. "Not you guys too," I said. "I was just here to see Jill," said Micah unconvincingly. "And I was here to, um..." Eddie faltered, and I held up a hand to stop him.

Why must this be so mortifying? Oh, that's right. Because its my life.

Wow." Josh stopped and ran a hand over his shaved head. "I mean, yeah, there's no beating that. That's the Usain Bolt of embarrassing texts. That's made me feel a lot better, actually." "Oh, good. Great. Glad my shit-show of a life could be of service.

Yes. And also, if it's okay by you, I'd like to shut up now... Or possibly just go somewhere and swallow my face.

You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.

We dropped our hands, both embarrassed by the sincerity of the moment. But I was learning, Sometimes you had to put it all out there, no matter how hard it felt to do so. When the people in your life were worth it, so was the risk.

When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

You cannot really hurt a masochist.

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors.

Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity.

As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.

An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.

Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

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.

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.

Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act.

Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them.

For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.

I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.

I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical.

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing, and although it was published, it is, after all this time, kind of an embarrassment.

It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

My films are about embarrassment.

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.