Ashamed Quotes
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I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.
Emma Orczy
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My constituents don't want more refugees. I'm not ashamed to represent these voters. I'm proud of it.
Geert Wilders
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Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure.
Albert Einstein
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There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.
William S. Burroughs
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So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.
George Monbiot
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Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
William Gurnall
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If you feel guilty or quietly ashamed, seek the power of the Atonement.
Neill F. Marriott
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In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
Sophocles
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I have preached God's truth, so far as I know it, and I have not been ashamed of its peculiarities. That I might not stultify my testimony, I have cut myself clear of those who error from the faith, and even from those who associate with them.
Charles Haddon
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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.
Victor Hugo
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The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it.
Jonathan Dee
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You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.
Joseph Heller
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I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.
Ed McBain
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I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that.
Michael Trevino
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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
Confucius
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We need never be ashamed of our tears.
Charles Dickens
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Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
Epictetus
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Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa
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It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.
Gautama Buddha
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Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving nourishment to the tree, slough off. We should not be ashamed to change our methods; rather we should be ashamed never to do so.
Charles V. Chapin
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I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.
Alicia Keys
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How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.
Jamie Lee Curtis