"People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H.G. Wells
"To be unable to bear disapproval was an unworthy weakness. But in her case it came nowise of the pride which blame stirs to resentment, but altogether of the self-depreciation which disapproval rouses..."
- George MacDonald
"They wouldn't beat him up. They wouldn't break his ribs. He knew that. But they had other ways of breaking him - with silence, with disappointment, with disapproval."
- David Levithan
"Hypercritical, Shaming ParentsHypercritical and shaming parents send the same message to their children as perfectionistic parents do - that they are never good enough. Parents often deliberately sham..."
- Beverly Engel
"Perhaps I am a rose-picker and a breeze-sniffer."
- Sam Wazan