If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
If we knew how often the obedience of others is affected by our own, and how often our stepping forth soon brings… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We should leave people alone about their weight. Being chubby for a while (provided you don’t give yourself diabetes) is a natural… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Lord's visitations of distinguished favor are always to the diligent. That great men may not be ashamed of honest vocations, the… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
“And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never, ever, be ashamed about trying to earn as… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us… — Al-Kindi Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't ask anyone to take this dreadful form," said Woot; "it wouldn't be right, you know. I've been a monkey for… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
We men should be ashamed of ourselves. I think 85 percent of men are dangerous to women. We need to change to… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I think what's beautiful when you're looking at artists like Macklemore and you're looking at artists like Ayron Jones, they're proud of… — Sir Mix-a-Lot Copy Share Image
[Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
The thing I loved about her was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk to God as… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it… — Alec Issigonis Copy Share Image
That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The generals who had called Zia a mullah behind his back felt ashamed at having underestimated him: not only was he a… — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There tends to be a sort of mundane quality to what I select - things from around the house, around the studio.… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which… — Barry Pepper Copy Share Image
Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of… — Hozier Copy Share Image
I was never a hundred percent comfortable with the women I was hanging with because I was afraid they'd find out that… — Taye Diggs Copy Share Image
We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
“each hour is a room of shame, and I am swimming, swimming, holding my head up, smiling, joking, ashamed, ashamed, like being… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I remained basically anonymous for almost 17 years. I, in those 17 years, I tried to commit suicide a couple of times.… — Norma McCorvey Copy Share Image
We don’t need a cure,” the other zombie said. “That’s right,” Scapegrace nodded. “We’re happy the way we are.” “Happy with the… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that everyone in one way or another has some sort of body issue. There's something about themselves physically that they're… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image