Shame Quotes
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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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Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
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Lovely place, shame about the people!
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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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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 so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.
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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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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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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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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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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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Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.
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To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.
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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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Defeat would not be a shame, ... This is a competition.
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Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.
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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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You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.
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Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
