“jeopardy, but that he is also “a sorry excuse for a human being”. Over time, the look can make the recipient feel… — Pete Walker Copy Share Image
“And in her reverence of his skin, he felt that shame wither and curl, like paper on a flame, and float upward,… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“There is no shame in spirit-trouble; it’s what you get when you’re a footwasher, a generous-love person, open to deep friendship and… — Tom Wright Copy Share Image
Do good to another man, even when they do not do you good; another will certainly do you good. if there is… — Sukarno Copy Share Image
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
We so often tend to think our democracies are ruled by procedures and laws, but they are also governed by implicit rules… — Rutger Bregman 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
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
“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
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
If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but… — Amy Davidson Copy Share Image
People shame women, but then you see all these guys, and they can do whatever they want. That isn't just in wrestling,… — Melina Perez Copy Share Image
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly,… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
“the culture of shame is driven by fear, blame and disconnection and it's often a powerful incubator for issues like perfectionism ,stereotyping,… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty,… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
But don't you feel that it's time for us to stop we've gotta stop playing games before all we bring is shame,… — Sugar Minott Copy Share Image
“Embarrassment wasn't what I had in mind. "Put it this way: I'm not really interested in any of them wanking off to… — Georgia Cates Copy Share Image
Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I got two choices, both require pain One’s the pain of change and the pain of staying the same One of ‘em… — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Heavens knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly… — Vanora Bennett Copy Share Image
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“...for those of us who never do these things at all, there can be a great sense of shame that washes over… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The song 'Humiliation' is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
“What do you take me for? That fool Socrates, who upheld the law at the cost of his own death – just… — Benson Bruno Copy Share Image
There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
What's great about the way 'Shame''s been received is that I kept on thinking there's no way this film will be received… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
“The awareness of human separation, without reunion by love—is the source of shame. It is at the same time the source of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“There were no parades or parties or dancing in the streets like after World War II. No breast-beating pride or songs of… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
