Shame Quote by Alexander McCall Smith Download Open image ““...we all have some things we are ashamed of.”” — Alexander McCall Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Shame
“You should be much more ashamed of things you didn't say than you are of things you said.” — Nassim Taleb Copy Share Image
“When somebody, no matter who, gives everything, it makes people feel ashamed for him.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“You don't have to be ashamed feel down, to have a good cry; we are human after all and it's the part of humanity.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“Never be ashamed to speak your mind. Sometimes the honesty of your own words is all you can count on.” — Gena D. Lutz Copy Share Image
“Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don’t believe your shame.” — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
“And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would… — Anonymous 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 too much.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“The basis of shame is not some mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known.” “That is very well… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off and visit… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I guarantee you [Hillary Clinton] is smoking in humiliation over the idea that she needs to heal and that [Donald] Trump's the guy to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“There's something energizing about getting what you want, even if that something is shame.” — Riley Sager Copy Share Image
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
“He stopped at an intersection, panting, rubbing at the twinge in his hamstrings, looking around, though he knew no cars were coming in either… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“Shame is the deepest of the “negative emotions,” a feeling we will do almost anything to avoid. Unfortunately, our abiding fear of shame impairs… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image