Castigating Quotes

#1. As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy ... I really tortured myself.

Mira Sorvino

#2. I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese.

Deborah Smith

#3. There was the cell where Fr. Eulalio, a thriving lunatic of eighty-six who was castigating himself for unchristian pride at having all the vowels in his name, and greatly revered for his continuous weeping, went blind in an ecstasy of such howling proportions that his canonization was assured.

William Gaddis

#4. No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

Mitch Daniels

#5. [On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.

Katharina Zell

#6. I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.

Carlton Fisk

#7. Deep downy upholstery is absolutely what I've always been about.

Albert Hadley

#8. Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes.

Wallace D. Wattles

#9. If God wasn't mightily amused by our humanness, I figure he'd have wiped us out a long time ago.

Jill Conner Browne

#10. Some experts even say the idea of India is wrong; it is not more than a leftover patchwork of disparate kingdoms created by the British.

Chetan Bhagat

#11. It turns out that what makes history come out in triumph is some dumb sheep that couldn't find its way home.

Robert Farrar Capon

#12. If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not.

Rebecca Solnit

#13. Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.

Libba Bray

#14. Rhythm, that's an essential part of cooking. The sound of a lovely song and the smell of some dish in the oven are equally evocative.

Neneh Cherry

#15. Lore, if you wait for the right moment, you'll wait forever.

Nicola Griffith

#16. This no longer a state of mind it's a reality, this is the beginning of an opportunity that hasn't presented itself in Collin County or any other county in the country.

Florence Shapiro

#17. I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#18. God does not pay at the end of every day, but in the end He pays.

Anne Of Austria