Guilt Quotes - Page 11

• Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.

  Brené Brown

  Mistake, Shame, Made

  "Listening to shame". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• [John F. Kennedy] kept a diary and in the White House dictated his thoughts. He felt real guilt at the killing of [Ngo Dinh] Diem, the leader of South Vietnam.

  Chris Matthews

  Real, White, House

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• It was a good script [Something New]. We have not seen an interracial issue dealt with from a black woman and white man's perspective in this way. And, usually, it's a black man, white woman. I loved the fact that it wasn't about the couple being against the world or the couple against the family. I loved the fact that it was her dealing with her own prejudices that came up, her own guilt, her own shame and embarrassment about what her peers thought.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Couple, Men, White Man

  Source: www.today.com

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• I think some of the biggest time sucks are regret and guilt, and I have to fight against those things all the time. In a way, it's a good thing, because it can motivate you to make amends and forgive, but regrets are really, I think, a supreme waste of time in many ways.

  Emily Giffin

  Regret, Fighting, Thinking

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

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• Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy, fear, paranoia, guilt and uncertainty. Celebrities can be born overnight. Writer's can't. Writers are made - forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities - over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when you begin is not the same writer you become.

  Chuck Wendig

  Writing, Moon, Joy

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• Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it to be denominated true or false glory, accordingly as the ends to which it is directed are beneficial or mischievous, just or unjust objects of pursuit; but it is false, because it exalts that which ought to be abased, and criminal, because it encroaches on the prerogative of God.

  William Wilberforce

  True Or False, Criminals, Unjust

  William Wilberforce (1820). “Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians ...: Contrasted with Real Christianity ...”, p.135

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• I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

  Nan Goldin

  Eye, Catholic, Church

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• As far as the lawsuit, yes, when I was very young, I went into my father's company, had a real estate company in Brooklyn and Queens, and we, along with many, many other companies throughout the country - it was a federal lawsuit - were sued. We settled the suit with zero - with no admission of guilt. It was very easy to do.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Zero, Queens

  Transcript of the First Debate, www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• [Bill Clinton] has settled numerous lawsuits without admitting any guilt on a whole number of things. Are you saying, are you implying that settling a lawsuit is implying guilt? Because if so, it means that your candidate is guilty of an awful lot of things, no.

  Anderson Cooper

  Mean, Numbers, Admitting

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I find it's a very positive movement and something you can do every day in little ways. Our philosophy on the website (www.greenissexy.org) is not to have green guilt, do what you can.

  Rachel McAdams

  Philosophy, Movement, Green

  Source: thefancarpet.com

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• Everybody is laden with guilt.

  Rush Limbaugh

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• You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Letting Go, Past, Patterns

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• [Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him very much like a Catholic voice. This is, indeed, a mystery, and it intrigues me, too.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhist, Voice, Catholic

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lord, Feels, Rings

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• You can't go to church without praying ten or fifteen times for God to have mercy on you. You can't sing "Amazing Grace" without reminding yourself that the reason God's grace is amazing is it saves a wretch like you. This self-denigration stuff - Jesus died for my sins - is nothing but a guilt message. That's the thing we've got to get out from under. That's not Christianity. That's sort of fourth-century Christianity that got turned into doctrines and dogmas that we've never been able to escape.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Self, Grace

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I do not believe in collective guilt.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Collectives

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The enemy has always been able to point the finger of suspicion and/or guilt to Black leaders that they are enriching themselves at the expense of the people.

  Louis Farrakhan

  People, Leader, Black

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I think it would be nice to have a guilt free possibility to act out all kinds of sexual fantasies... So that I think is appealing. And today the only thing that exists like that is called a whorehouse... Where you still feel like you're exploiting so I don't want to do that.

  Jason Silva

  Nice, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: theblerdgurl.com

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• Sex is where you find it. I say take it and enjoy it. Give and receive freely, without fear, without guilt and without contractual obligations.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sex, Giving, Enjoy

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• I think guilt is the biggest problem in America, people are always feeling guilty about being themselves. You can't say what you want because it's not politically correct. You can't look like you want because you, the people at the office aren't going to like you and so on.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Office

  Source: www.mansonwiki.com

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• Kafka had the sense of guilt. I don't think I have because I don't believe in free will. Because what I have done has been done, well, for me or through me. But I haven't done it really. But I don't believe in free will, I can't feel guilty.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Believe, Thinking, Done

  Source: thefloatinglibrary.com

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• I didn't wake up one day and say, I have to tell O.J.'s Simpson story. But what drew me to it wasn't what people have focused on over the last 20 years - meaning, the question of innocence or guilt, nor the spectacle of the trial. I was more interested in the history that led up to that point in time in 1994, which would help explain what exactly went into making the trial as fascinating as it was.

  Ezra Edelman

  People, One Day, Wake Up

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• "It is finished" means that Jesus had accomplished all that God's mission had sent him to do. It did not merely mean that his life was over like, "I'm finished". It was a statement of achievement of purpose - God's purpose to deal with sin and guilt, to defeat all the powers of evil, to bring about the reconciliation of enemies, to defeat death itself, and to accomplish the reconciliation and liberation of the whole creation.

  Christopher J. H. Wright

  Jesus, Mean, Evil

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• You've got all these parents who are projecting their pathologies of fear onto their kids and those kids are understandably messed up. Tragedies happen and that you have to allow kids to experience their own fear and guilt and sorrow. It's the cover-up that really screws people over. Unfortunately, America specializes in cover-ups.

  Steve Almond

  Kids, People, Parent

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• A lot of the guilt didn't help my drinking at that point. I never expected a divorce to happen in my life particularly, but it just slowly happened. My wife was proud of me, but she hated the business, and for good reason. The spouses get moved, shoved aside, and ignored, and it's just, it's terrible.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Drinking, Divorce, Wife

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