Shameful Quotes - Page 2

• I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

  Kristen Stewart

  Birthday, Thinking, People

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• Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Children, Sleep, Attacking

  "U.N. Says ‘Evidence’ Points to Israel in Gaza School Attack". www.nytimes.com. July 30, 2014.

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• You said to me once that you weren’t what I dreamed of. You were right. You surpass everything I dreamed of. Even the rot in you that’s caused you to do shameful things. Some men let the rot and guilt fester into something ugly beyond words. Few men can turn it into worth and substance. If you’re gods’ blessed for no other reason, it’s for that.

  Melina Marchetta

  Blessed, Men, Guilt

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• I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness for all whom I know for every harm I may have unwittingly caused them...Adieu, good, gentle sister...I embrace you with all my heart as well as the poor, dear children.

  Marie Antoinette

  Brother, Children, Heart

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• I am a trans woman. My sisters are trans women. We are not secrets. We are not shameful. We are worthy of respect, desire, and love. As there are many kinds of women, there are many kinds of men, and many men desire many kinds of women, trans women are amongst these women. And let’s be clear: Trans women are women.

  Janet Mock

  Men, Secret, Desire

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• That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.

  Brother Lawrence

  Thinking, Quitting, Should

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Practice of the Presence of God and Spiritual Maxims”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It's a shameful piece of history and I think - I don't mean to be political or sobering or anything - but I think America, the United States, we still have to deal with the issue of our original sin, which was slavery. And I think we're seeing the ramifications, the consequences, of not really facing the truth as to what we as a nation struggled towards. You know, struggled with and are still struggling and rectifying.

  Tamlyn Tomita

  Struggle, Mean, Thinking

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• For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

  Plato

  Success, Men, Greatest Victory

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• There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you know only a fraction of what's going on in the world. You don't have to attach explanations in terms of a special revelation of God's will, a glimpse at the supernatural, evidence of a conspiracy, or anything else.

  Harry Browne

  Wisdom, Special, World

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• If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold

  Lucy Parsons

  Determination, Lying, Struggle

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• Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.

  Isaac Watts

  Children, Fall, Fighting

  'Love between Brothers and Sisters' from 'Divine Songs for Children' (1715)

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• Mistakes are very seldom permanent, most of them can be fixed with less difficulty and drama than one imagines, and there's nothing shameful about them. There is, however, something sad and limiting about the fear of making them.

  Peter Buffett

  Drama, Mistake, Imagine

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• There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.

  Peter Lynch

  Doe, Investing, Fundamentals

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Malevolence is shameful but satisfying.

  Mason Cooley

  Evil, Malevolence, Satisfying

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• In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Age, Levity

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• Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Healing, Recovery, Years

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• A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Drinking, Wine, Character

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• When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

  Sophie Swetchine

  Pieces, Riches, Silver

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• I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

  Saint Augustine

  Fall, Mean, Self

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.29, Oxford Paperbacks

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• In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has deeply shocked and hurt me. Enough is enough.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Hurt, Lying, Deceit

  "French PM refuses to resign over scandal" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2006.

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• The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

  Michael M. Honda

  Needs, Awareness, Chapters

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• There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.

  Rumi

  Breathing, Way, Infinity

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• ...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Animal, Purpose, Flesh

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Les Confidences”, p.60

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• For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most infamous and harmful of all.

  Polybius

  Peace, Justice, Honor

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• I've seen men who thought they were brave turn out to be shameful cowards. Other people, who thought they were capable of the utmost self-sacrifice, proved to be hardened egotists. And the opposite, too - cowards doing things which needed toughness and unusual courage..... What does it all boil down to in the end? One must judge a man by what he does, and not by what he thinks he would do. Until a man faces the test, he can deceive himself endlessly.

  Jerzy Andrzejewski

  Sacrifice, Men, Thinking

  Jerzy Andrzejewski, David J. Welsh (1991). “Ashes and Diamonds”, p.81, Northwestern University Press

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