Quotes About Being Mortified

#1. I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

Vince Flynn

#2. I feel like I've been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I'm embarrassed, if I'm slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something.

Tavis Smiley

#3. Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.

Richard Smalley

#4. I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.

Lionel Shriver

#5. I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life.

Sara Paxton

#6. the trailer, and he begins to question whether we had even seen the boy in the first place. In truth, I'm beginning to

Matthew Whitehead

#7. You tried to kill yourself," she said, rolling her eyes up to heaven and biting her knuckle. "Andrew Hardy was gonna die one way or the other, and one of the choices gave me a daughter in exchange while the other left me with no one." "I

Meredith Russo

#8. A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#9. Business was successfully concluded. But - strange is man: he was deeply mortified at being in disfavour with the very people whom he did not respect, and whose vanity and love of dress he derided.

Nikolai Gogol

#10. We're married for the summer. Summer marriages don't get dragged down in heavy stuff.

Christina Lauren

#11. Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right.

Ali Sina

#12. There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. Death knew that to tinker with the fate of one individual could destroy the whole world. He knew this. The knowledge was built into him.

To Bill Door, he realised, it was so much horse elbows.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

Julius Nyerere

#15. I wonder how Jon Stewart is doing right now. I just ... I hope he's happy.

Haley Webb

#16. the fluffy golden squirrels turn out to be carnivorous and attack in packs, and the butterfly stings bring agony if not death. But

Suzanne Collins

#17. I often think about, 'How do we return to a simpler way of living? Is there some way that we can start to think of each other as human beings again, instead of worshiping money, instead of worshiping electronics, instead of worshiping getting ahead just for me?'

Giancarlo Esposito

#18. Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.

Samuel Johnson