Shame Quotes - Page 36

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lame, Management, Poor

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• God can take what Satan meant for shame and use it for His glory. Just when we think we've messed up so badly that our lives are nothing but heaps of ashes, God pours His living water over us and mixes the ashes into clay. He then takes this clay and molds it into a vessel of beauty. After He fills us with His overflowing love, He can use us to pour His love into the hurting lives of others.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Hurt, Thinking, Water

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• What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.

  James Cook

  Christian, America, History

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• An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

  Samuel Johnson

  Animal, Men, Pity

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• Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on earth. () How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of this same itinerant preacher, whose want was such that he had not even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with riches that she can rival - indeed, that she can put to shame - the combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global corporation of the world?

  Avro Manhattan

  Jesus, Names, Church

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• Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

  Confucius

  Law, Punishment, People

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant to be seen reading this year. It seems like those people aren’t really interested in books. If you’re really into books, you havoc all over the place picking up disparate stuff which you devour hungrily, and the ‘selection’ process is more like a sixth sense hunger, a billion miles away from fashion.

  Steve Aylett

  Fashion, Book, Reading

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• Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Sports, Sex, Media

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• I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

  Julian Fellowes

  Bird, Missing, Sorrow

  "Downton Abbey (Christmas at Downton Abbey)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2010 - 2015.

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• White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.

  Jack Donovan

  Jobs, Believe, Apology

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• The more you behave like you have the right to exist in the world without interference, the less others will question it. The power of a fait accompli is astonishing. The more people see fat bodies moving and being physical and doing whatever makes them happy in the world, without apology and without shame, the more they get used to seeing that and thinking of it as normal.

  Hanne Blank

  Moving, Apology, Thinking

  Hanne Blank (2012). “The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts”, p.48, Ten Speed Press

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• The irony of conversing with a stranger is that your individual lives always look very different and personal, but then you strip away the nuances to find a common likeness buried inside of diversity. Take away money and geography and we’re all just flesh and blood and soul. We’re all dealing with sin and forgiveness, love and hate, glory and shame.

  Charlie Peacock

  Hate, Blood, Diversity

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• You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

  Brené Brown

  Motivation, Inspiration, Race

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• [With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

  Ruby Wax

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

  Tertullian

  Soul, Flesh, Birth

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.426, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

  Steven Adler

  Stupid, Years, Two

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• The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together

  Steven Adler

  Real, Gun, Rose

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• Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Should, Filled

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• Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.

  Carl Whitaker

  Thinking, People, Want

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• We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Guilty, Shame And Guilt, Feels

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• Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.

  Kate Bornstein

  Cute, Stories, Life Story

  Kate Bornstein (2012). “A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today”, p.17, Beacon Press

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• But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Powerful, Hot, Sometimes

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.588, Simon and Schuster

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• No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued.

  Sheri Holman

  Men, Doe, Matter

  Sheri Holman (2010). “The Dress Lodger”, p.234, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots and heroes that they were. There is no other incident--beyond Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty--that shows the power of the Israeli Lobby by being able to silence successive American governments. Allowing the lies told by the Israelis and their minions in the U.S. is disheartening to all of us who are proud of our servicemen.

  James Abourezk

  Lying, Hero, Government

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• Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.

  Geneen Roth

  Awareness, Deprivation, Rely

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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