Mr. Bachchan is too used to getting things done his way. I had always thought of him as an elegant, articulate, sophisticated,… — Pooja Bedi Copy Share Image
I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as… — James Hunter Copy Share Image
When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
For a brief, weird minute I felt like Dorothy in Oz, walking down the street with Terric the doubtful, Shame the brainless,… — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
We're, ah, taking a break to evaluate things, and, um, reexamine our relationship, so I stuffed him in a closet!" I burst… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I'll work at the donut shop for six months again, I don't really have any shame about that. I liked working at… — Chappell Roan Copy Share Image
I believe we all have lists of shame. Long lists. We live with our constellation of shames quite privately. But they weigh… — Victoria Redel Copy Share Image
The recession of the late 1980s was a very visible humiliation. Cities across Britain had become the victims of botched battlefield surgery… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
“Despite the doctor’s orders, I bought myself several cartons of cigarettes (…) I think that I preferred to put myself in serious… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
“Where are you, Adam? According to the book of Genesis, Adam went into hiding after the fall. By trying to be more… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“The agony of this chronic stage of being cannot be endured for long. At the deepest level, toxic shame triggers our basic… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
In Britain, when the working class are summoned for fiction, it's 'isn't it a shame, isn't it a pity, isn't it awful,… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“We have these shames we keep to ourselves because to show ourselves as we are, no more and no less, would be… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if the shame/guilt distinction resonates for me. I just know that shame is a debilitating emotion that is perpetuated… — Marilyn Dumont Copy Share Image
I felt sorry for Senzo Meyiwa family and for the people of South Africa because it's a shame we lost such a… — Stephen Keshi Copy Share Image
I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are. This… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
All my life I've been called unworthy by the voice inside my head filled with regret and shame. And all I have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But there are some born to do penance by nature. Maybe they lift the load for some of us who take it… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“which made me feel the kind of shame you know you’re not going to cure by saying sorry, and where the only… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage… — Virgil Copy Share Image
It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how… — Eileen Atkins Copy Share Image
“Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The rage was a good feeling, stronger and purer than the shame that followed, the fear and the sudden urge to run… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“The idea was that if we did such things, we would see that the worst that could happen was usually not so… — Dr Ameisen Olivier Copy Share Image
There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
For me, a trans writer, Knausgaard taught me about writing shame as liberation from it - a literary version of the kind… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
“Shy is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something… — Jonathan safran foer Copy Share Image
“That black pool of shame bubbled up in my head again. Then, a spark came along and set it alight. The choice… — David Wong Copy Share Image
It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Too many men I know experience shame because society places pressure on them to withhold emotion: emotion and sensitivity is weak. I… — Natalie Brenner Copy Share Image
“There's a feeling of shame that is more painful than any other in life; it's the shame felt by the victim who… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed visiting India and we usually go to Mumbai or Delhi a few times during the season. It's a shame… — Nico Hulkenberg Copy Share Image
The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere… — Horace Copy Share Image