Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that.

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• I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Past
  • Desire
  • Body

• I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Ashamed
  • Confess

• We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Nature
  • Ashamed
  • Clinging

• The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Author
  • Writer
  • Become

• Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • President
  • Texas
  • Ashamed

• I'm not judging myself; I'm not dissing what I do. I'm proud of what I've done and I'm proud of what I'm working on. I've accomplished something and I'm not going to be ashamed to be happy about what I've done.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Proud

• I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

  

  Isabel Vargas Lizano
  • Men
  • Made
  • Bed

• Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Ashamed
  • Innocence

• We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Good
  • May
  • Intelligent

• Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?

  

  Socrates
  • Money
  • Reputation
  • Concerned

• If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Ideas
  • Ashamed
  • Philosophies

• In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

  

  Confucius
  • Country
  • Ashamed
  • Governed

• She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Ignorance
  • Ashamed
  • Heartily

• We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Behavior
  • Ashamed
  • Motives

• I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

  

  Sara Gilbert
  • Ashamed

• You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

  

  George Eliot
  • Work
  • Learning
  • Pride

• Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

  

  Barry Hughart
  • Childhood
  • Ashamed
  • Sanity

• What you look like doesn't matter as much as what you feel like. If you feel you look good, you look good. And I never felt that.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Good
  • Feel Like
  • Doesn`t Matter

• To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• Even though it's still the United States, I think on many levels they feel separate, especially the true Hawaiians - who are not necessarily thrilled to be a part of the United States. But I just love the whole spirit.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • True
  • Feel
  • Spirit

• How many Sundays - how many hundreds of Sundays like this - lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful, and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays, I didn't wind my spring.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Wind
  • Spring
  • Lonely

• I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Ashamed
  • Feel Like