It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours. — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman. — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up"… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The idea that the more you hide something, the more it becomes something that's supposed to feel shameful is very true. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
What is important to us is to reverse the shameful course being pursued by America. It won't be easy, but it must… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has… — Dominique de Villepin Copy Share Image
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer… — Plato Copy Share Image
To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
I do think that the Trump presidency, even for the resistance, there is pre-Charlottesville and a post-Charlottesville moment, and Donald Trump's response… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
It's shameful that the elites basically have one-and-a-half political parties. Working class men and women have zero parties - or they have… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations.… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Why did it have to be such a shameful secret? Hadn’t I been potty-trained and taught to chew with my mouth closed?… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The Liberals, apparently, want to prorogue the House. They want to run out of town, get out of town just one step… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the gap between the rich and the poor is a dangerous phenomenon in Russia and it needs the attention of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
“It was revolting that I had been like that. Shameful. Disgraceful, in the old-time sense of the word. And what was even… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true-unless it… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in being gratuitously relatable and broadening out what I do in order to reach more people. When I'm going… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It was shameful and embarrassing that there were two years in a row without a single actor of color nominated. That's insane. — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
