Best 857 quotes in «shame quotes» category

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.

I know people are going to be suspicious about everyone now. I know I don't have anything to hide. I've never done anything. It's just a shame it's gotten to this point.

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.

I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.

Instead of talking about accomplishments, we are talking about stupidity and intelligence reporting that is based on facts that's not coming out of the actual heads of these intelligence agencies. And we are sitting here talking about it. And it is a shame, and it needs to end.

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

Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes

I say, isn't that a shame [a trade with Japan], it's so one-sided.

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

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.

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

It's a shame that cancer has been something that's been accepted in society as something that's always gonna be there.

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.

It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

It’s a shame...you just don’t see young people doing anything outside these days.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides.

It's no shame to fall down, but it is a shame to just stay down.

It's such a shame that people are so much more worried about being right than being decent.

I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.

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

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

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.

Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.