Shame Quotes - Page 25

• I wish to remain nameless
  And live without shame
  'Cause what's in a name, Oh
  I still remain the same

  Florence Welch

  Names, Wish, Causes

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• Lovely place, shame about the people!

  Stuart Wilde

  People, Lovely

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• Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  War, Long, Hypocrisy

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• The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had a once in a generation chance to change the world for good, to avert catastrophic climate change. In the end they produced a poor deal full of loopholes big enough to fly Air Force One through.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Men, Airports, Cities

  "Meaningful Agreement: Obama Says ‘A First Step’ Climate Deal Has Been Reached In Copenhagen" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.

  Jan Chozen Bays

  Memories, Two, Mind

  Jan Chozen Bays (2011). “How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Heart, Dancing, Alive

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• I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

  Kate Winslet

  Beautiful, People, Way

  "Kate Winslet: Your #1 Most Glam". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2011.

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• I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

  Danai Gurira

  Writing, Topics, Reason

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• Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

  Bill Konigsberg

  Guilt, Who You Are

  Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.293, Scholastic Inc.

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• Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.

  Alan Ryan

  Believe, Writing, Extraordinary Person

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• Scars on the back are a swordsman’s shame.

  Zoro

  Scar, Swordsman

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• O loving wisdom of our God
  when all was sin and shame,
  a second Adam to the fight
  and to the rescue came.

  John Henry Newman

  Fighting, Sin, Adam

  John Henry Newman (1868). “Verses on Various Occasions”, p.354

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• We are not preaching the Gospel of a dead Christ, but of a living Christ who sits exalted at the Father's right hand, and is living to save all who put their trust in Him. That is why those of us who really know the Gospel never have any crucifixes around our churches or in our homes. The crucifix represents a dead Christ hanging languid on a cross of shame. But we are not pointing men to a dead Christ; we are preaching a living Christ. He lives exalted at God's right hand, and He "saves to the uttermost all who come to God by Him."

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Father, Home, Men

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• ...to say...that Laetrile should not be continued to be used by those who are suffering from terminal cancer, I would have to hang my head in shame.

  Luther L. Bohanon

  Cancer, Dark, Suffering

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• But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

  Julie Taymor

  Movie, Men, Thinking

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• I ate too much and masturbated too recently, you know? It's bad to like jerk off and run out the door, 'cause you run into somebody. "Oh, she knows..." You got to take some time alone to process the shame.

  Louis C. K.

  Running, Thinking, Doors

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• Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame.

  Thomas Gray

  Flames, Track, Mind

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.38

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• My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud his brow. On the very night of his death he took me in his arms, and during the many months when he lay dying in his wheel chair, he often said jokingly to me: 'Well, have you already picked out a lover?' I blushed with shame. 'Don't deceive me,' he added on one occasion, 'that would seem ugly to me, but pick out an attractive lover, or preferably several. You are a splendid woman, but still half a child, and you need toys.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Love, Husband, Children

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.31, Cosimo Classics

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• Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

  James Russell Lowell

  Women, Ems, Done

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.184

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• My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

  Alastair Campbell

  Tombstone, Flower, Long Ago

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2001.

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• England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Choices, England

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• I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no longer feel shame.

  Lisa Loomer

  Writing, Play, Crafts

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• What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now protected by the mountains and the river,the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.Mark tried to say that no village,no culture can remain static. I have often thought that if this lively and magnificent land belongs to anyone,it's to the birds and the fish.They were here long before the first Indian and when the last man is gone from the Earth,it will be theirs again.

  Margaret Craven

  Men, Land, Rivers

  Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”

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• ...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands moved towards each other to embrace. I never heard his voice, for we did not speak; it is a shame, I should so like the memory of it. Loneliness, like fever, thrives on night, but there with him light broke, breaking in the trees like birdsong, and when sunrise came, he loosened his fingers from mine, and walked away, that misty boy, my friend.

  Truman Capote

  Memories, Loneliness, Night

  Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Ray Bradbury, James Baldwin, James Purdy (1962). “Some postwar American writers”

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• O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

  Homer

  Sports, Strong, Heart

  Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.160

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