George Davis Herron Quotes

No longer is it possible for men to be content to have, while their brothers have not. The physical misery of the world's disinherited is becoming the spiritual misery of the world's elect. Superior privileges of any sort now carry with them the sense of shame.

George Davis Herron

• Shame
• Misery
• Privileges

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • She
  • Man
  • Feeling

• Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Shame

• Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Difference

• My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Character
  • Job
  • Person

• A lot of people tell me now I'm their inspiration. They say, 'I don't play baseball,' and then they mention whatever - engineer, doctor, college student, high school student - but they're hurt because, for some reason, people feel shame about themselves or embarrassed because they are short or skinny or fat or whatever.

  

  Jose Altuve
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Shame

• I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.

  

  Beverly D'Angelo
  • Knows
  • Christmas
  • Misery

• Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Never
  • Shame

• We feel bad from a team standpoint for Todd. He worked very hard this offseason. He was having a heck of a camp, and its a shame this happened.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Hard

• I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative. It's a shame that science hasn't been taught that way, in a long time. It's usually the fact completely devoid of any human experience or any idea of how the scientist came to that conclusion.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Misery
  • Would Be

• Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Power
  • Wish
  • Habit

• Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Poverty
  • Sin
  • Shame

• No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Relationship
  • Matter
  • Misery

• And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.

  

  Plato
  • Violence
  • Shame
  • Suffer

• There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Found
  • Shame
  • Cover

• The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Shame
  • Expectation
  • Sexual Love

• Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Happiness
  • Misery
  • Beneath

• [W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Shame
  • Murder
  • Torture

• What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Fear
  • Violence
  • Misery

• The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

  

  M. Ward
  • Live
  • Best
  • Surprise

• The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Exist
  • Philosophers
  • Antipodes

• I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'

  

  Nicholas Kroll
  • Share
  • Interviews
  • Revelatory

• No longer is it possible for men to be content to have, while their brothers have not. The physical misery of the world's disinherited is becoming the spiritual misery of the world's elect. Superior privileges of any sort now carry with them the sense of shame.

  

  George Davis Herron
  • Shame
  • Misery
  • Privileges