Shame Quotes

Once it's over and you understand what's going on, it's a shame. You want to win three sets. Denis Shapovalov
You Win Three Sets Once Shame Over Understand Going Want
In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so. Dennis Prager
Welfare Men Parents Young Live Increasingly State Various Shame Countries Longer Welfare State Doing Common Young Men European European Countries Even Why Why Not
Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret. When I came out in a newspaper interview at 30 I was expecting the reaction the following day to be like the climax of 'Dead Poets Society,' but actually no one really cared. Derren Brown
Day Gay Dark Big Society Interview Secret Carried Out Following Poets Shame No-One Like Dead Reaction Became Around Climax Came Child Expecting Gradually Being Newspaper Capacity Really Actually Thing Cared
I thought it was ridiculous that I was being paid less than a cameraman, and I wanted to shame them. And I did. Diana Rigg
Thought Shame Cameraman Than Did Being Wanted Them Paid Less Ridiculous
When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you. It's meant to scream out at you, and it has a message. Don McCullin
You Please Out Shame Take Particularly Talk Message Scream Meant Portrait
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. Douglas Hyde
Language Everything Way Brought Shame Institutions Most Up Irish Disgraceful Which Ashamed
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. Edmund Burke
Heart Will Virtue Minds Tyrants Shame Nor Moderation Whilst Wholly Keeps Utterly Watch Extinguished
Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided. Elif Batuman
Life My Life Reading Pain Thinking Rather Shame Could Most Insults Came Been Any Realized Avoided Actual
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life Sometimes Girl Fire Half Sorry Too Alive Drawn Brow Wings Shame Like Wishing Dead Because Were Up Flare Blush Them Then Bodily Sudden Near Neck Save
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that. Elizabeth McGovern
Art Writing Lost Saving Correspondence Shame Like Mourn Letters Receiving
Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India. Elizabeth Vargas
Girl Country National Every Baby Month Months Systematic Minister India See Some Shame Prime Prime Minister Calls Female Firsthand Shocking Six Traveled Elimination Widespread
Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Pride Will Long Country Must Both Shame Tendencies Judaism Israel Endure Endures Shun
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. Ellen Key
Pain Humiliating Other Corporal Punishment Neither Besides Physical Physical Pain Gives Shame Him Ineffective Nor Effect Than Any Who Hardening Receives
It's a shame - we've got so many hilarious women, and think there's a certain repression there. Emily Atack
Women Hilarious Think Shame Got Repression Certain Many
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre. Emma Donoghue
Single Think Way Would Would-Be Shame Writer Genre Any Them Publishers
No one should feel comfortable venting racist abuse, whether from the stands or through media outlets. Just as fans must call out any fans they see hurling abuse, journalists must call out colleagues who perpetuate divisive rhetoric. Name and shame them. Eniola Aluko
Fans Colleagues Out Must See Outlets Shame Through No-One Divisive Feel Journalists Abuse Name Call Comfortable Perpetuate Any Just Rhetoric Whether Them Should Who Stands Media
Doubt is the brother of shame. Erik Erikson
Doubt Brother Shame
Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views. Evan Davis
People Mind Some People Feelings Other Embarrassment Clash Some About Struggles Shame Attraction Well Well Known Known Hand Sustain Conflicting Harbour Views Awkward Homosexual
I never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter in the late '80s and thought, 'What a shame there has never been a decent book on Jean Harlow,' then thought, 'Why don't I write one myself?' being kind of an idiot and not having the slightest idea what I was getting myself into. Eve Golden
Myself Book Writing Thought Idiot Late Took Slightest Kind Classes Having Shame Write Never Idea Advertising Been Any Getting Decent Being Then Working Planned Jean Why
I'm first-generation American - my people came over on boats - and I think it's a shame to close the door on people who really need freedom. F. Murray Abraham
Freedom People Think Shame Over Came Close American Door Boats Really Who Need
Man I got so many regrets. The biggest is that Eminem gave me so many demos - six different times he approached me, and I didn't sign him. Shame on me. Fat Joe
Me Man Gave Sign Eminem Shame He Him Got Demos Times Six Different Biggest Regrets Many Different Times
The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people. Fiona Apple
Life Time You Hurt People World Pain Live Spend Worst Bad Shame Lot Trying Anyone Anything Your
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy Pain Vanity Give Bearing Shame Feel Makes Them Us Cutting Assistance
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. Fred Woodworth
War Hurt Innocent Healthy Innocent Civilians Otherwise Way Would Would-Be Seems Civilians Shame Combat Like Terrible Healthy Way Get Wonderfully Human Race Rid Wars Human Race Trash
I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are filled with shame. I think shame is interesting. Garrett Dillahunt
Me Think Melancholy Says Drawn Characters About Shame Know Interesting Who Filled
I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame! Gautam Singhania
People World Think Per More Shame Offer Than Cent Explore Even
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