Best Shameful Thoughts
208 Shameful quotes by 176 unique authors
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I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.
— Iggy Pop
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Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself…
— Julie Orringer
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Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.
— Margaret Atwood
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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
— Oscar Wilde
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Most of my friends are into strange things I don't really understand - and with a few shameful exceptions I wish them all well. Who…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence…
— Nick Harkaway
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You said to me once that you weren’t what I dreamed of. You were right. You surpass everything I dreamed of. Even the rot in…
— Melina Marchetta
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That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His…
— Brother Lawrence
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I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how…
— John Green
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Nothing was dirty. With Park. Nothing could be shameful. Because Park was the sun, and that was the only way Eleanor could think to explain…
— Rainbow Rowell
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He loved me. He'd loved me as long as he he'd known me! I hadn't loved him as long perhaps, but now I loved him…
— Gail Carson Levine
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It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own…
— Marcus Aurelius
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This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life.…
— Russell Crowe
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...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights.…
— Kofi Annan
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The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.
— Ethan Zuckerman
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The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them…
— Laura Mennell
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There is nothing shameful about being efficient.
— Arpad Busson
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Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
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The federal government should not be an accessory to the unconstitutional actions of the Arizona state government. By continuing to work with Arizona police departments…
— Lucille Roybal-Allard
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
— Plato
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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
— Phaedrus
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It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to…
— Unknown Author
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For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
— Sophocles
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I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to…
— Hosni Mubarak
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The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting…
— Fred Upton
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