Shame Quotes - Page 24

• Stupid cupid you're a real mean guy, I'd like to pick your wings so you can't fly, I am in love and it's a crying shame, and I know that you're the one to blame, hey, hey set me free, stupid cupid, stop picking on me.

  Mandy Moore

  Stupid, Real, Fall

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• It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

  Eileen Atkins

  Hands, People, Mind

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• "I was just like a pathological liar when I was a kid. I think I just wanted to one-up somebody. Somebody would be like, 'Oh, God, my legs hurt.' I'd be like, 'Your legs hurt? I'm getting mine amputated next week.' And that's actually how my mother found out. She came to school and somebody was like, 'God, that's such a shame about Jennifer's legs.' She made me purge. I had to spill out all of my lies. I was like, 'I said that Dad drove a barge, and we were millionaires, and you were pregnant, I had to get my legs amputated, and I spayed cats and dogs on the weekends.' Now I can't lie.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Mother, Dog

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• Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

  Kate Thornton

  Talking, Domestic Violence, Needs

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• A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

  Solomon

  Fathers Day, Lying, Hate

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• I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

  Jack Antonoff

  Real, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Courtney Kenefick, www.seventeen.com. March 6, 2012.

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• I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

  Brooke Shields

  Mom, Healing, Feelings

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• Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America's asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame in failing again, starting again, and repeating failure.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Math, Errors, America

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.171, Random House

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• Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

  Christine de Pizan

  Doe, Rakes, Skirts

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• I don't want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting, or the work it takes to plan a date night. I want to hear that you guys watch every episode of The Bachelorette together in secret shame, or that one got the other hooked on Breaking Bad and if either watches it without the other, they're dead meat. I want to see you guys high-five each other like teammates on a recreational softball team you both do for fun.

  Mindy Kaling

  Softball, Sex, Fun

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• I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our day we had individuality. Pictures were more sophisticated. All this nudity is too excessive and it is getting very boring. It will be a shame if it upsets people so much that it brings on the need for censorship. I hate censorship. In the cinema there's no mystery. No privacy. And no sex, either. Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

  Myrna Loy

  Sex, Hate, Expression

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. The lengths people go to — and the extremes and the conditions and the mental exercises and guilt and shame and happiness that everybody goes through — and what they'll do for sex is never-ending and mind-boggling and very interesting to me. And I don't think a lot of times people choose any of it.

  John Waters

  Sex, Exercise, Thinking

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• The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.

  C. S. Lewis

  People, Frankness

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• Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames our wickedness. It is discipline in the equality of men--for all men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Inspiration, Men, Air

  1951 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?

  Didier Eribon

  Motivation, Empathy, Desire

  Didier Eribon, Michael Lucey (2004). “Insult and the Making of the Gay Self”, p.29, Duke University Press

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• I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.

  A. J. McLean

  Dresses, Louboutins, No Fear

  "My Gay Interview With A Backstreet Boy: ‘I’m The Fag Hag’". Interview with Chris Azzopardi, pridesource.com. August 28, 2013.

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• There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.

  Tanith Lee

  Moon, Night, Fire

  Tanith Lee (2015). “Black Unicorn”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

  James Frey

  Regret, Grief, Sadness

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.316, Anchor

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• Boundaries emerge from deep within. They are connected to letting go of guilt and shame, and to changing our beliefs about what we deserve. As our thinking about this becomes clearer, so will our boundaries. Boundaries are also connected to a Higher Timing than our own. We’ll set a limit when we’re ready, and not a moment before. So will others. There’s something magical about reaching that point of becoming ready to set a limit. We know we mean what we say; others take us seriously too. Things change, not because we’re controlling others, but because we’ve changed.

  Melody Beattie

  Life, Success, Letting Go

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• Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.

  John Pope

  War, Glory, Disaster

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• Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, Guilt

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise”, p.15, PuddleDancer Press

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• We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Guilt, Desire

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• Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Compassion, Punishment

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.25, PuddleDancer Press

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• Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Wells, Wretchedness

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• Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Dark, Past

  Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.116, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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