There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no…

“There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom. As the pen touches the paper, for a moment, I'm alive.”

— Jessica Sorensen

The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is…

— Allegra Goodman

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

— Henry Fielding

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay…

— Brené Brown

You know, we'll hardly get our feet out of time [and] into eternity that we'll bow our heads in shame and humiliation. We'll gaze…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Hermione, will you please —” “Don’t you tell me what to do, Harry Potter!” she screeched. “Don’t you dare! Give it back now! And…

— Anonymous

How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no…

— Dana Gioia

“Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I had wanted to hate you that day. Believe me, I had. And then suddenly, staring at me incredulously, your extra half-tooth had blurted…

— Kunal Sen

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…

— William Butler Yeats

As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has…

— Mark Colvin

I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which…

— Nick Hornby

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

— Edwin Louis Cole

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves…

— Holly Johnson

It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset