Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
An Awkward Feeling In This World; Is When You Secretly Try To Look At The Person You Admire The Most... And You… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Oh, such a shame, such a shame. Oh, such a shame. What’s it all about anyhow?” “I’ve wondered for a long time.”… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and… — Al-Shafi‘i Copy Share Image
We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
Shame on me, for me to have this platform and me to have this opportunity to stand up for something that I… — Andrew Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Cause shame was what we always felt, me and all my girlfriends, for expecting sex to breed complicity. ("Complicity is like a… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If… — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty… — Reverend Ike Copy Share Image
“When he mentioned family, I could only think of my father, my real father, the Long Island janitor with the impenetrable accent… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor,… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
We must never mistake the process for the result...there is suffering; but this is only the process. God isn't going to stop… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while he lives… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it.… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“A wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can be neatly avoided by following a single precept in life: Do not lie.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people. — Margo Lanagan Copy Share Image
Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Is it not a Shame--is… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?" She said, "I refused to be shamed." "How… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Superachievement and perfectionism are two of the leading cover-ups for toxic shame. As paradoxical as it may seem, the straight-A student and… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Rest is the ultimate humiliation because in order to rest, we must admit we are not necessary, that the world can get… — Michael Yaconelli Copy Share Image
“The girl, whose name he never cared to get, disappeared on her walk of shame. Reluctant heels clopped across icy marble tiling… — Adam Cesare Copy Share Image
“Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
First day home I dived in it, left her thighs dented Now that bitch be pagin me every five minutes Mcs I… — Big L Copy Share Image
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
