But he didn’t have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn’t it?

He is an embarrassment to the ruling party.

I’d violated the primary rule of junior and senior high– don’t get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in...

The site is an embarrassment, first and foremost, to all of us that felt confident it would move forward more quickly than it has.

I am the red in remembered. Why am I red? Because I’m embarrassed.

Relax; the world’s not watching that closely. It’s too busy contemplating itself in the mirror.

I hid my feelings for her for years, and I thought all was well until my neighbor went digging in her garden and found them buried in the ground. I’m so embarrassed I could just...

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

It’s a huge embarrassment for the Republicans in every jurisdiction, from Washington to his district.

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...

I felt that I have caused some embarrassment to the regime that I respect very much (so) I presented my resignation to President Mubarak and I bear the political responsibility,

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, “Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

How can Sophie hate Josh tonight when Friday morning she loved him?’ I ask. What I mean is How can I have had such strong feelings for Ethan when now I don’t know what I...

He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.

Well, we were always going to fail that one,” said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in...

The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife’s feelings and deprive his...

I didn’t hear what was said, but I laughed, because I was too embarrassed to embarrass him by breaking up his punch line and laughter by asking him to repeat it.

Mae’s first impulse was to die of shame, but she realized after a hot, stomach-clenching moment that this was probably impractical.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

My fear is that he’ll forget me,” she bemoaned with crystalline sadness. I took her hand, limp with loss and held it. “I’d rather not be remembered by any man as it saves me the...

O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us,An’ foolish notion.

They should resign, … Where is their embarrassment? Why are they still in positions of influence and collecting directors’ fees?

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Things aren’t often what they appear to be at first blush. But embarrassment is.

A Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad,” out loud.But life did not come with a trapdoor.

Of course, I should have known the kids would pop out in the atmosphere of Roberta’s office. That’s what they do when Alice is under stress. They see a gap in the space-time continuum and...

True poetry is embarrassing.

They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak...

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

I felt my mouth go dry, my throat constrict. What possible interpretation could Peter place on those words, other than that they were about him? – that the entire song was about him?

See?” I crowed. “I know what I’m doing. Two weeks, tops, and you’ll be begging to dip your fries in my shake.””You think?” It took me about a second before I realized I’d done it...

Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very...

Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice...

Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

Hell hath no fury like a man embarrassed by a woman

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something – an absurd idea, but it persisted – ‘I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to...

We made love like flamingoes are pink. You know what else was pink? My cheeks, because I was so embarrassed when I found out that she was the wrong woman.

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...

On my way out I didn’t look at the dark guy, the suicide bomber, again. I think I didn’t look at him because I didn’t believe he was a terrorist, but maybe I didn’t look...

My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions.

Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval...

I always keep the weather in my pocket, so no matter where I go, I always have something to talk about. Sudden thunderstorms embarrass me.

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

Shut. Up.”Morfyd shook her head. If love always made you this pathetic, she wanted nothing to do with it.

As painful as it may sometimes be, we must not sweep these issues under the rug of embarrassment, silence and indifference,

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

There’s a blush for won t, and a blush for shan’t, and a blush for having done it: There’s a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.

Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone