Shame Quotes - page 2

You can cry, ain't no shame in it. (Will Smith)
Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition. View quote
Eliza Farnham
Isolation is nice,” thought Brant as she drifted closer to sleep. "It's a shame you can't share it with anybody. View quote
George Alec Effinger
Doubt is the brother of shame. View quote
Erik Erikson
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. View quote
Sydney Smith
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. View quote
Milan Kundera
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. View quote
Martha Beck
There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years. View quote
Carol Vorderman
I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up. (Karen Joy Fowler)
India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable. View quote
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. View quote
Billy Graham
Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine. View quote
Mark Millar
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. View quote
Henry Mayhew
It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album. View quote
Marc Almond
We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality. View quote
Neil Tennant
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. View quote
Sydney Pollack
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them. View quote
Germaine Greer
He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain. View quote
John Updike
He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't. (Valerie Solanas)
Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation. View quote
Michael Pollan
Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. View quote
William Hazlitt
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Tell the truth and shame the devil. View quote
François Rabelais