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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are… — Langston Hughes
We've got a nation of people who have one eye looking out for the next speed camera, another looking for a speed limit sign and… — Paul Smith
There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can… — Sun Tzu
To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him… — Lupe Velez
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. — Louis Kronenberger
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course… — Douglas MacArthur
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;… — William Blake
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the… — Oscar Wilde
Shame is pride's cloak. — William Blake
When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely. — Louis XI of France
Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you could render me in shame… — Cory Booker
Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the… — P.J. O'Rourke
What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee. — Walter Hagen
Shame is not your friend. It depletes your power. Let go of shame and embrace your magnificence. — Judith Orloff
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our… — George Bernard Shaw
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true… — Bernard de Mandeville
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. — Seneca the Younger
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame… — Blaise Pascal
Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that… — Susan Sontag
The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame. — Rod Steiger
Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the… — Thomas Adams
Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity. — Tony Blair

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