George Davis Herron Quotes
No longer is it possible for men to be content to have, while their brothers have not. The physical misery of the world's disinherited is becoming the spiritual misery of the world's elect. Superior privileges of any sort now carry with them the sense of shame.
Quotes to Explore
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.
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My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.
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A lot of people tell me now I'm their inspiration. They say, 'I don't play baseball,' and then they mention whatever - engineer, doctor, college student, high school student - but they're hurt because, for some reason, people feel shame about themselves or embarrassed because they are short or skinny or fat or whatever.
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Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.
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I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative. It's a shame that science hasn't been taught that way, in a long time. It's usually the fact completely devoid of any human experience or any idea of how the scientist came to that conclusion.
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If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.
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Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
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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 morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.
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There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
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The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.
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A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.
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I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
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Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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My story has been the story of my generation.
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Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
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The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.
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No longer is it possible for men to be content to have, while their brothers have not. The physical misery of the world's disinherited is becoming the spiritual misery of the world's elect. Superior privileges of any sort now carry with them the sense of shame.
