Shame Quotes
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Lovely place, shame about the people!
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
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I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.
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When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.
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Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.
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The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.
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Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
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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 wish to remain nameless And live without shame 'Cause what's in a name, Oh I still remain the same
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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.
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And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.
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I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
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Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.
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It's a damn shame when people can't take you seriously because girls like you.
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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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If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.
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Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
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Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.
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Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.
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God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.
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I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.
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To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.
