Shame Quotes
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.
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Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
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Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
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Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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Making a show is also economics. Because the irony is, or the shame of it is, you cannot create a show instantaneously. It needs to be massaged. You need to see who is relating to who. How is it working with the audience? You need to give it a chance for the audience to find it, because there are so many outlets. And the audience doesn't know where to go.
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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.
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It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
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It's a real shame if people feel they have to do anything that makes them uncomfortable to be successful.
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It doesn't matter if it's a playoff game or a regular-season game. The umpires have to keep control of the game. Tony was warned twice.... It's a shame, but those are the circumstances.
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If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.
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If I'm not in the dead heat of working on something, I can end up spending tons and tons of time on the Web, and I hate it. I feel the same shame I did in grad school when I was pretty much addicted to reruns of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. I wish someone would make the Web just go away. Just remove it from the earth.
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?
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It`s so simple just like that, 'cause it`s a shame that where you`re at isn`t always where you really wanna be.
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The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.
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Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.
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Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.
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I read a lot of studies about the fact that there is a bias in the way health care is doled out, down to the fact that most medical studies are done on men, not women, so most dosages are planned for men, not women, and on and on. And more than that, women's pain is gauged differently and their complaints are received differently. And the idea that there's a place where you can go where everything is geared toward you, as a woman, is great. But it's a shame that we need to find places that are "safe" when the world, the whole world, should be a safe place.
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The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.
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What do you want in your life? What do you want in your relationships? And if you say, I'd like them to be harmonious; I'd like them to be free; I'd like not to be in a state of blame all the time or shame. If you answer like that, then I would say, look at what's unforgiven. Look at where you know you did wrong and you would like to go to that person and say - I'm sorry. Can we start over? If you want to have a happier life, I would say, practice forgiveness.
