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

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I...

Me would like an invisibility cloak to get the hell out of this mess.

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.

Some people are embarrassed because they were wrong about you. Forgive them.

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery...

I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says...

Experience is the best school,Failures, Mistakes, Embarrassments, and Heartaches are teaching there,Offering only one lesson called Life,That you could only finish once you’re dead!

But she’s not.’ I told the man, ‘Look at you! You’re a vampire giving up beating hearts in favor of the woman you love. That’s pretty-”Embarrassing?’ he finished for me with a frown.I narrowed my...

Myself and the players were an absolute disgrace this afternoon. We were an embarrassment to this football club… We were so spineless at times it was frightening.

I had a dream about you. You listened quietly as I told my idea for an invention that could dry your hair with in minutes of getting out of the bath. After giving you my...

Watching a make-out while wrapped in a blanket with a guy she wanted to make out with made her feel exposed. Obvious. Transparent. Like her thoughts were flashing before his eyes.Finally Brett managed to pull...

I’m so sunburned I’m embarrassed, but you can’t tell I’m blushing because I’m sunburned. I’m so ashamed I could just lie on the beach and die.

Our only power is political embarrassment with governments that are reluctant to cooperate with us.

So never be embarrassed by mistakes, rather, be thankful for them, because they always present an opportunity for personal growth.

I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited toschool for Career Day.

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity’s most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work...

George’s hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw feeling in Sir Stephen’s suddenly dark and haunted eyes.

I took baby steps to overcome my embarrassment over my tiny infant feet. Would you dance with me even if I had the moves of a midget?

Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and...

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