Shame Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Your only shame is to have shame.

  Amy Tan

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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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• But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

  William C. Bryant

  Flames, Tree, Listening

  William Cullen Bryant, “Autumn Woods”

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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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• 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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• 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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• I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comes…I would go much further than that. I should say that it is from time to time the duty of a serious investor to accept the depreciation of his holdings with equanimity and without reproaching himself.  … An investor…should be aiming primarily at long-period results, and should be solely judged by these.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Long, Serious, Share

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• Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

  Bob Dole

  Names, Confusion, Moral

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

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• Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Christian, Horse, Struggle

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• I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.

  Tony Abbott

  Years, Judging, Abortion

  "Abortion 'a badge of liberation', says Abbott", www.theage.com.au. February 16, 2006.

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• There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.

  William Langland

  Sour

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• I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day and all you can see is all these things you want to make better.

  Ben Silbermann

  Thinking, Joy, Looks

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• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.

  Langston Hughes

  Dark, Artist, White

  Langston Hughes (1995). “Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62”, p.5, University of Illinois Press

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• Sell. Don't apologize for it and don't be afraid to beg with a positive, up-beat attitude. Tell prospects you want their business and you will kick ass once you've earned it. Have no shame, pride doesn't pay the rent.

  Thom Gimbel

  Attitude, Pride, Want

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• I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Promise, I Promise, Source

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• It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

  Gary Kemp

  Art, Would Be, Pops

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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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• We knew we'd be together, we didn't know when,
  But long distance love, never thought it would end.
  The feelings never changed until the call came...
  You were engaged, I was in pain.
  It was such a shame: the timing, it just wasn't right.
  So I say, 'Good luck,' and then I say, 'Good night.'

  MURS

  Good Night, Pain, Distance

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• Empathy is the antidote to shame.

  Brené Brown

  Empathy, Antidote

  "Brené Brown Talks to The Shriver Report: The Power of Shame on Women Living on the Brink". Interview with Cara P. Lemieux, shriverreport.org. February 5, 2014.

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