Best 857 quotes in «shame quotes» category

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.

I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

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

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.

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

I feel non-stop Brit shame!

I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There's no shame in being tested for AIDS.

If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

If you can steal from your competition, then they deserve to lose it. If someone steals from you, then shame on you....you deserve it. Same goes for employees too.

If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the shame and reproach will be very great.

If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

If you still have to ask, shame on you

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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'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.