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

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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

If you still have to ask, shame on you

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

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

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

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

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

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 promise not to become a source of shame for you.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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