“Jude never loved Locke.' My face feels hot, but my shame is an excellent cover to hide behind. 'She loved someone else.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Shame on you, Crispin. Married how long, and you haven't spanked your wife with a metal spatula yet?" I'd gotten used to… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
If you are in the closet and fall in love with someone of the same gender, it doesn't automatically remove the shame… — Anthony Venn-Brown Copy Share Image
To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
You know, the elites always want to shame the poor - right? - and everyone else. I mean, the fact is, this… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
They're the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
“I can't get myself to say what happened next. I cannot cope with even thinking about this let alone living with it."… — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
“Guys who would make fun of girls for sexual inexperience are terrible people, and when girls do it to other girls it… — Katie Heaney Copy Share Image
“That was a moment where something clarified about shame for me: it’s not just something negative but some kind of arrow, it’s… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“Many of us live in denial of who we truly are because we fear losing someone or something-and there are times that… — Dennis Merritt Jones Copy Share Image
“The feeling of shame has the same demonic potential to encompass our whole personality. Instead of the momentary feeling of being limited,… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“She might have seen what had bowed her head so profoundly - the thought of the world’s concern at her situation -… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and… — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
“Healthy people understand that others have the capacity to choose to end relationships and it serves as motivation for them to learn… — Wendy Mahill Copy Share Image
“But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. And perhaps we are responsible even for… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“You must be very embarrassed," I heard myself say. He snorted and tightened his grip. "I hardly find slicing E'than'i'el open embarrassing.… — Vicki Keire Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the greatest wound a shame-based person carries is the inability to be intimate in a relationship. This inability flows directly out… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“The phone rang and Chassie excused herself to answer it. Silence hung between them as heavy as snow clouds in a winter… — Liz Andrews Copy Share Image
I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh,… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
With movies, depending on who your director is or what kind of movie you're shooting, you kind of have more of an… — Sarah Wright Copy Share Image
“No one escapes some degree of chaos for it is so ever prevalent; it is the human experience. This realization does not… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame,… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
It’s a shame, but also for kids it’s so easy now for them to download it to their phone and listen to… — Stephen Dewaele Copy Share Image
“When those in power use shame to bully the weak into compliance, they are stealing from us. They tell us that they… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I'm of the old-fashioned opinion that shame can be used for all sorts of good in society. An example of this is… — Keli Goff Copy Share Image
