Guilty Quotes - Page 6

• Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Anxiety, Way, Mimicry

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.103, Hamilton Books

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• You weren't born guilty. You were born bold and playful. Then you forgot who you are and what you deserve. When you remember who you were before you learned to apologize for asking, you'll have everything you want.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Asking, Want

  Alan H. Cohen (2011). “How Good Can It Get?: What I Learned from the Richest Man in the World”, p.39, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

  William O. Douglas

  Liberty, Citizens, Libertarian

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• You know when things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires. Jacob B. Ch.14

  Stephenie Meyer

  Rude, Vampire, Jacob

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• My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing.

  Ricky Gervais

  Years, Bridges, Mma

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Is it guilty in here or is it just me?

  Miranda Lambert

  Song: Guilty In Here, Album: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, 2007

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• You think you're in a place where you're all 'I'm thrilled to be gay, I have no issues about being gay anymore, I don't feel shame about being gay,' but you actually do. You're just not fully aware of it. I think I still felt scared about people knowing. I felt awkward around gay people; I felt guilty for not being myself.

  Ellen Page

  Gay, Thinking, Knowing

  "Ellen Page Discusses Coming Out As Gay And That Homophobic Pastor’s Note" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2014.

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• Never underestimate a man's ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes.

  Rihanna

  Mistake, Men, Underestimate

  "Rihanna Buys Mansion, Tweets About Being Single" by Emma Koonse, www.christianpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think sentimental, but which my generation calls simple human decency. And I miss my home, because I'm beginning to get scared shitless, because all of a sudden it's closer to the end than the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me, with definable features.

  William Holden

  Pain, Home, Kids

  "Fictional character: Max Schumacher". "Network", www.imdb.com. 1976.

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• Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming

  Emma Thompson

  Feelings, Global Warming

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• If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

  Pete McCarthy

  Guilt, Kind, Feels

  Pete McCarthy (2014). “McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland”, p.62, Macmillan

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• The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.

  Cassandra Clare

  Country, Past, Nightmare

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• Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.

  Joyce Meyer

  Past, Missing, Murmuring

  Joyce Meyer (2010). “The Confident Woman Devotional: 365 Daily Inspirations”, p.3, Hachette UK

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• You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you.  You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.

  Paul Newman

  Believe, Care, Innocent

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• He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.

  James M. Barrie

  Moving, Boys, Fire

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.134, 谷月社

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• he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Trying, Convince

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• In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Kings, Betrayal, Men

  'Hansard' 7 February 1828, col. 131

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• Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

  Terry Goodkind

  Pity, Innocent, Treason

  "Faith Of The Fallen". Book by Terry Goodkind, August 22, 2000.

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• In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Europe, People, Being Free

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• If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.

  Kenesaw Mountain Landis

  Baseball, Peers, Jury

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• You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is something harsh, abrupt, careless, unpleasant to you in his character, in his speech, in his manners-because he is more conscious of his dignity than perhaps is necessary; or because he may be somewhat proud and disrespectful; but you yourself, your neighbor's physician and teacher, are more guilty than him.

  John of Kronstadt

  Teacher, Character, Humility

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• There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Integrity, Humility, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

  Adam Smith

  Patriotic, Government, Libertarian

  Adam Smith (2012). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.

  Rick Riordan

  Rivers, Promise, Needs

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• But perhaps the best part of all was that I, Sydney Katherine Sage, guilty of constantly analyzing the world around me, well, I stopped thinking.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Sage, World

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