“It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves,… — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
I do love Christmas, although my wife puts me to shame. She is a huge Christmas fan, so we do love us… — Sebastian Arcelus Copy Share Image
A European brewery has purchased Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser, for $52 billion. Which is a a shame because if they had… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“When you do feel shame, seek out someone who loves and accepts you for who you are, in the intimacy that exposure… — Daniel Gottlieb Copy Share Image
For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret.… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
As a people, we value family, education and success. Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies have demonstrated that even… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief;… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Christmas is such a time of struggle anyway, crammed with busy and hurry and the expectation that you will be joyful, no… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“If you could feel my sorrow and my shame. Know how I hate the things I have done--my sins, my failures, my… — Willow Aster Copy Share Image
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference, a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
That's sad," said Montag, quietly,(referring to The Hound) "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“They were both so scared they weren't talking at all, which made me feel the kind of shame you know you're not… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“He, the man, had seen her, touched her, and had not validated her beauty, her womanliness. He had turned away and gone… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The reality is that we only have one person whom the public sees as appropriate to be prime minister, and that's a… — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
People seem to be afraid of science, and certainly, people seem to be afraid of mathematics. And I think that's such a… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I’m sick of being everyone’s regret. My mother died in shame because she’d borne me. My father and brother despise me and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“ACT5.41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
American Horror Story re-energized me; it re-energized my career. There’s no shame in recognizing that. It’s exposed me to a whole new… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
“If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
We are all human. We've all done despicable things. If you haven't been amassing embarrassment you've been not taking enough risks in… — Lou Sanders Copy Share Image
“The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The difference between men and women is this--if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her… — Deb Baker Copy Share Image
“Do I have YOUR permission to be a Supernatural God? If I want to open heaven, and in a moment in time,… — Jim Anderson Copy Share Image
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one... — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image