Commit Quote by V. S. Pritchett Download Open image “How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.” — V. S. Pritchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Commit Extraordinary Feels Guilt Regret Sin
“While guilt over sinfulness can often lead to repentance, shame leads to indifference, intolerance, lack of vulnerability, and lack of intimacy with others as… — Tyler Braun Copy Share Image
It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The major sins are the sins one commits, then considers them insignificant and underrates them — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
When I was younger I had my problems, and one of the hardest things I had to come to terms with was that I… — Fab Moretti Copy Share Image
“To confess one's guilt and one's original sin is little, very little; one must wean oneself away from them completely. And that takes more… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful… — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I like to always wash the slate clean, and reinvigorate my spirit to be connected to the characters that I am doing. I am… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit… — James Van Der Beek Copy Share Image
Ok, look. I'm honest. Girl I can't lie I miss you. You and the music were the only things that I'd commit to — Drake Copy Share Image
One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized — Girish Karnad Copy Share Image