As you become an adult, shame gets introduced and reintroduced constantly to you. So where something that, to a child, just is… — Justin Torres Copy Share Image
there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
I am a trans woman. My sisters are trans women. We are not secrets. We are not shameful. We are worthy of… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
In a train...smash. In his arm her last...breath.' He had loved her. But he hated himself more. Such suffering, so much pain.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I think my most shameful thoughts are the things people relate to the most, because everyone has questionable thoughts sometimes, and it's… — Mira Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“And though I have done many shameful things, I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of who… — Nic Sheff Copy Share Image
When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person… — John Green Copy Share Image
They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Yet people are still showing up to lift their hands after all these years even though the church is flawed and broken… — Max Andrew Dubinsky Copy Share Image
To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
For Native Americans, the most shameful and powerful corrective gesture is to literally and physically turn one's back upon a person who… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Three Mormon scholars have thoroughly researched one of the most shameful events in Mormon history. They have produced a very detailed, insightful… — Robert V. Remini Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl. Before you reach that age where your sexuality starts to display itself,… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
Is it not shameful and a great scandal that we poor latecomers, we Christians, aided by grace, the Faith, and the sacraments,… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil… — Plato Copy Share Image
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are… — Anwar Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's estimated that 16 million people in the U.S. have struggled with depression - and I include myself in that statistic. It's… — Lisa Jakub Copy Share Image
We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful… — Plato Copy Share Image
Mistakes are very seldom permanent, most of them can be fixed with less difficulty and drama than one imagines, and there's nothing… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
“The funny thing about coming out is that it relies on the belief that the information you're keeping about yourself is shameful.… — Courtney Trouble Copy Share Image
“If you are proud for bad reasons, shame waits around the corner” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
