Shame Quotes - Page 35

• I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, Blood, Mopping Up

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.

  Rebecca Loos

  Holding On, Said, Wanted

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• Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Party, Ignorance, Men

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• My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.

  Henry Constable

  Rose, Red, Lips

  Robert Southwell, Henry Constable, William Drummond (1906). “Robert Southwell: Selected Poems; Henry Constable: Pastorals and Sonnets; William Drummond: Songs, Sonnets, Etc”

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• Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

  Marian McPartland

  Thinking, Records, Stuff

  "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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• People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

  Robert Wyatt

  Thinking, People, Wish

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• The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

  Sam Mendes

  Wisdom, Black And White, Numbers

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• I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.

  Lillie Langtry

  Beautiful

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• We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.

  George Crook

  Country, Past, Law

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• For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen?

  William Henry Hudson

  Cities, Joy, Soul

  William Henry Hudson (2010). “The Purple Land: Being One Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Oriental, in South America, as Told by Himself”, p.235, The Floating Press

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• The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, Mean, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.150, tredition

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• I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.

  Don Henley

  Song, Baby, Cows

  "If Dirt Were Dollars". Song by Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar, John David Souther, 1989.

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• In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade.
  And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down...
  or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame
  "I am leaving! I am leaving" but the fighter still remains.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Cutting, Leaving

  "The Boxer" (song) (1968)

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• Now I know my Redeemer lives. I know my Redeemer lives. Let all creation testify let this life within me cry. I know my Redeemer. He lives to take away my shame. And He lives forever I'll tproclaim That the payment for my sin was the precious life He gave. But now He's alive and there's an empty grave

  Nicole C. Mullen

  Forever, Redemption, Alive

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• There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason . . . She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.

  Steven Morrissey

  Arrogance, Royal, Blame

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• You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Glory, Preserves

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• What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

  Robert E. Lee

  Beautiful, Kindness, War

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.84, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.

  Ben Kingsley

  Reality, Thinking, Appreciate

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• Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Leadership, Sweet, Revenge

  Carolyn G. Heilbrun (1974). “Toward a recognition of androgyny”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we give an accounting, naked we present our lives in bundles. See how much these weigh, we tell him, refusing to deny what we have lived. Everything that is touched by light loves the light. We the stubborn-as-grass, we who reel at the taste of sap and want our spirits cleansed, will not betray the weeds, snake, or crippled mare. Never leave behind what the light shone on.

  Linda Gregg

  Weed, Dark, Light

  Linda Gregg (1991). “Sacraments of Desire”, Graywolf Press

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• Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.

  Rick Warren

  Men, People, Weakness

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• Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.

  Brené Brown

  Light, Empathy, Stories

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• Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.

  Brené Brown

  Compassion, Keys, Self

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.68, Penguin

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• Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Funny, Dog, Way

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lame, Management, Poor

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