Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.
– Michel Faber
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- I just called you corny and said you were wearing a green dress. That’s, like, the least flirtatious thing anyone’s ever – Claire LaZebnik
- Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest–that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment. – Neal Shusterman
- I don’t want to be my limitations. I don’t want to be my pain. I don’t want to be my embarrassment. – Kim Holden
- We can hide a lot of stuff until God shows up, for when God shows up nothing is hidden, which includes both our embarrassment and His forgiveness. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms. – John Leonard
- A fierce hatred of embarrassment ruled a surprising amount of the life of Moses Malone, the Hall of Fame basketball center. – Joseph Bottum
- When our embarrassment level is exceeded by our desperation level, we are a good candidate for God’s grace. – Peter Lord
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- There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go. – Frederick William Faber
- There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. – Frederick William Faber
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- Let’s create positive change on this planet; With either: the hyper sophisticated tools we have, or the mobile device we are – Natasha Tsakos
- Arise my friend, Awake my friend and work for humanity, not to make it sophisticated, but to make it peaceful first. – Abhijit Naskar
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- I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can’t imagine them properly now. – Jo Walton
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- Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth. – Bryant McGill
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- I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine. – Madeleine LEngle
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- A woman is human, obviously, but she represents a slightly different kind of humanity. – Michel Houellebecq
- Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. – Shannon L Alder
- The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man? – George Orwell
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- The investments of your youth, are drafts upon your old age. Invest sheer poetry in yourself. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself. – Ruth Haley Barton
- It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you. – Toni Morrison
- It was bewildering, the way that reality could be overtaken, wrestled down, and murdered by the sheer weight of possibility. – Jennifer duBois