Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“If you have realistic ideals and can generally live up to them, your self-esteem will not be threatened. If your ideals are… — Mary C. Lamia Copy Share Image
In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Although wrongs have been done to me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts…Now we are together again to… — Black Kettle Copy Share Image
“Katie was forced to do the midnight walk of shame in the pitch dark in all her finery with her high heels… — Annette J Dunlea Copy Share Image
The problem is when you become so well known that everyone is watching you and you don't have an opportunity to observe.… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event.… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
“It's wrong to be ashamed of yourself. Presumptuous and stupid. I've made myself sick with shame, because I could feel so strongly… — Ebba Haslund Copy Share Image
“By out-talking or bad-mouthing people, some get hoisted by their own petard, ultimately. When their sense of shame makes them crawl back… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“When from out of error’s darkness With a word both sure and ardent I had drawn the fallen soul, And you, filled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to… — Virginia McKenna Copy Share Image
Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
“This transformation involves three dynamics: 1. The identification with shame-based models and the carrying of their unexpressed shame. 2. The trauma of… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Boundaries emerge from deep within. They are connected to letting go of guilt and shame, and to changing our beliefs about what… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Well, Harry Reid and other members of congress, they're just furious over this Olympic uniform deal. He says we should burn the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Let's face it. Nobody predicted Trump. He's a fairytale nightmare that none of us could possibly have imagined. Shame on those 63… — Ron Stallworth Copy Share Image
A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“Shame upon him who can look on calmly, and exclaim, 'The foolish girl! she should have waited; she should have allowed time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Guilt is an outward expression of self degradation. It is acceptance of one’s culpability, indiscretion, liability, sin, dereliction, and harm without resolving… — Deborah Bravandt Copy Share Image
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to give you… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no… — Alistair Maclean 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
“Shame is paralyzing and debilitating. It invites us not to be heard, at least not in an authentic way. Acting courageously when… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“Often, her mate is the child of a narcissist, already indoctrinated to regard exploitation and disregard as love. Others lured by the… — Elan Golomb Copy Share Image
“I remember when my oldest son took his first step. My wife and I were so excited, but we expected him to… — Lecrae Moore Copy Share Image
You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft.… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
These nutbags, like Santorum and Bachmann, who make these people and especially young gay kids feel miserable, shame on them. They're quacks.… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
Keep the change, Gin," McCallister said in a smarmy, mocking voice. "Consider it an early Christmas present." "Aw," I drawled. "A whopping… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
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