Ashamed Quotes - Page 19

• Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

  Azar Nafisi

  Challenges, Negative, Culture

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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• Forgiveness is a process of giving up the old for something new. Old experiences and memories that we hold on to in anger, resentment, shame, or guilt cloud our spirit mind. The truth is, everything that has happened had to happen. It was a growth experience. There was something you needed to know or learn. If you stay angry, hurt, afraid, ashamed, or guilty, you miss the lesson. You will be stuck in a cloud of pain.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Giving Up, Pain

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 15, 2015

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• The only thing is I am a little bit ashamed of is I didn't come out earlier, that I didn't have the strength to do it, the courage to break that lie. But everyone goes on their own path to do this, and I don't want the struggle to be so hard for other people.

  Ian Thorpe

  Lying, Struggle, People

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• We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.

  Al-Kindi

  Generations, Source, Should

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• I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean completed, done, ready to submit, and written as well as you know how at the time you wrote it. You may be ashamed of it later, but that's another story.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Writing, Mean, Stories

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• Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

  Pietro Aretino

  Should, Should I

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• It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.

  Peter the Great

  Desire, Reform, Subjects

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• Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves.

  Saul Bellow

  Self, Hands, Civilization

  Saul Bellow (2003). “Novels, 1944-1953”

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• O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, Children, Writing

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.354

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• The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Calling, World, Ifs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.411

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• One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches.

  Albert Einstein

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Use

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

  George Orwell

  Country, England, Nationality

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves when it was happening: there is a pleasant panoramic sense of what it all was and how it all had to be. Why, if we are not vain or snobbish, need we desire that it should have been different? The better things we missed may yet be enjoyed or attained by someone else somewhere: why isn't that just as good? And there is no regret, either, in the sense of wishing the past to return, or missing it: it is quite real enough as it is, there at its own date and place.

  George Santayana

  Regret, Real, Past

  "The Letters of George Santayana".

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• Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Children, Men, Joy

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• So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Errors, Humanity

  Joy Elmer Morgan, Horace Mann, Eleanor Craven Fishburn (1938). “Horace Mann at Antioch”

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• How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to these low days of smiles that will never again be sly enough to hide the knowledge of betrayal and deceit.

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Betrayal, Men, Soul

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.62, Heinemann

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• What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Should, Feels

  Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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• I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Giving, Political, Would Be

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• ... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that we shall not become partakers with Him in His glory. If that is true of us we shall be believers in word only, not in deed. When deeds are absent, our faith is dead.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Suffering, Deeds

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• Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face by the basest of slaves (Jn. 18:22). He gives you an example of victory, yet do you refuse to undergo this at the hands of a man of like passions as yourself? You are ashamed of becoming an imitator of God (Eph. 5:1), how then will you reign with Him and share in His glory in the kingdom of heaven if you do not endure that man?

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Passion, Men

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• Place yourself among those who carry on their lives with passion, and true learning will take place, no matter how humble or exalted the setting. But no matter what path you follow, do not be ashamed of your learning. In some corner of your life, you know more about something than anyone else on earth. The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

  Kent Nerburn

  Passion, Learning, Humble

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• So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.

  Marie Osmond

  Mother, Baby, Taken

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• I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

  Christopher Hampton

  Play, Saws, Firsts

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• Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.

  Vash Young

  Girl, Home, Boys

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• Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.

  Rutger Hauer

  Wall, Honesty, Thinking

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. May 5, 2011.

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