New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises ‘Why then are you not taking part in them?
– HG Wells
Related Quotes:
- It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life. – Albert Camus
- The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question. – Nikolai A Berdyaev
- when you avoid one life question, you answer another life question. The question is : what life question do you want to answer? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of our truth. – Kelli Wilson
- An education system is best belittled when the so-called educated gets hired by a company that’s owned by a so-called dropout. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- She never belittled him though she knew the strength of his doubts – SM Hulse
- The mighty question arises upon us, what is one’s own real self? It certainly is not what we think we are and ought to be. – DH Lawrence
- Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. – Camille Paglia
- She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them. – Rebecca West
- We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts. – John Calvin
- It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism. – Philip Yancey
- In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus is never unkind to the weak. He treats Martha with humiliating honesty, just as he would treat the male disciples. – Kate Cooper
- Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere. – Albert Bigelow Paine
- I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work. – Jeremy Camp
- It is dehumanizing, demeaning and humiliating when you fail or refuse to acknowledge or respond to a Good Morning greeting. #Mannerism – Adeagbo Caleb Adewumi
- Isn’t it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones. – LM Montgomery
- Humans assign gender to God, so the first question to ask ourselves is who decided God was male? The second question is why? – Peter Wilkes
- Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes? – Mehmet Murat ildan
- It seems you want me at your mercy, Princess. Question is, why?No, she whispered, question is do I? – Meg Hennessy
- We’re taking you to the hospital,’ it said, ‘you’re going into shock. Can you tell us how you – Dan Wells
- Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white? – Tony DSouza
- Other dancers weave through our lives, sometimes stirring our deep soul’s fires. – Jay Woodman
- Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock. – Milan Kundera
- When she smiled at me, I felt unborn poems stirring within. – John Mark Green
- His presence was stirring heat in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons. – Justine Dell
- It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I feel it or not. – Lauren F Winner
- Something was stirring in him, though; a bud of comprehension that could very well bloom into forgiveness if left unchecked. – Julie Anne Long
- You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers… – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- Having a woman on the team is stirring things inside me that I never felt before while on the job. – Collette West
- Now, what’s stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history. – Laurie Perez
- A book, too, can be a star ‘explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly. – Madeleine LEngle
- It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds. – Lara Biyuts
- I sighed immersed in a sleeping sea. A ripple that turned into waves and then storm, stirring and blending our troubled waters – Luca Ferrarini
- His lips ever so gently touched mine, and suddenly I felt everything stirring inside me grow wings, let loose, and fly. – Heather Anastasiu
- …you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire. – Sonia Sotomayor
- …I make no apology about stirring the depths – every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath … – John Geddes
- God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others. – Colby Buzzell
- Man’s obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people. – Anasazi Foundation
- Nothing is wrong in taking medicine when you’re sick, but something is wrong if It is been taking by you to cure the headache of another. – Bamigboye Olurotimi
- Taking care of yourself, taking time for yourself & rewarding yourself is NOT selfish. It’s important & absolutely necessary! – Tanya Masse