It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.” — Abu arri Copy Share Image
It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children. — Kevin Eubanks 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
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever. — Michael M. Honda Copy Share Image
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
All work which is necessary ennobles him who performs it. Only one thing is shameful - to contribute nothing to the community. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“So you’re the infamous Manal al-Sharif,” he said, eyeing me from behind his desk. “Aren’t you ashamed of what you did?” “Is… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment… — William Hague Copy Share Image
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“My Soldier's definitive of LOYALTY does not include being complacent with a biased or prejudiced leader amongst the Soldiers they took an… — Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army 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
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
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
