Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality. — Mathieu Kerekou Copy Share Image
“I am careful not to look anyone in the face because I don't want them to see the shame in my eyes,… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen The Goodbye Girl? Don’t watch it if you still want to enjoy romantic comedies. It makes every movie… — Rainbow Rowell 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
I want to have my children, but I don't want to look like I have them. You're not really allowed to say… — Frankie Bridge Copy Share Image
The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our… — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
At my most unlovable and ungraceful, I've felt so much shame. What would be so great in those times is to have… — Taylor Russell Copy Share Image
I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have these beautiful children and this extraordinary family, and to think in any way shape or form that that's wrong or… — Sean Maher Copy Share Image
Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Persecute them. ... Let them be put to shame and perish. ... Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.… — Wiley Drake 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
There's a level of shame attached to our history, and we need to replace that shame with pride and own our history.… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“clearing his throat in the hope of startling his emo malcontent of a secretary into shame, but she didn’t even bother to… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
The thing we want for all our kids is that they be connected with a learning community and that they have strong… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner's… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
It's only through effort that we learn what an idea actually is, and if our passion for it will last or fade.… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
I don't waste a lot of time on profound embarrassment. I have always been somewhat the same person. I can think of… — Andy Richter Copy Share Image
“I once felt shame for the scars upon my skin. Unknowingly ignorant to the beauty they possessed. Those scars tell a story… — Danielle Luz Matias Copy Share Image
There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Shame cannot exist in conditions of light, sunshine, and humor. So the very moment that you share your most shameful moments -… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
It's quite frightening; the business of trying to be funny is very hairy. In comedy, the potential for humiliation is huge. Trying… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
It is an utter shame to spend millions on the sanctuaries while millions are dying of hunger! Institutional religion must go to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings. — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
“I grabbed my napkin and managed to pretend to sneeze which had the added effect of covering up most of my face… — Diana Rowland Copy Share Image
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true. — Susanna Hoffs Copy Share Image
Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
