Disgrace Quotes - page 2

The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially stressed households and that will come at a very high cost to the US taxpayer. And the plan does nothing to resolve the severe stress in money markets and interbank markets that are now close to a systemic meltdown. (Nouriel Roubini)
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, Of needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace. View quote
William Cowper
There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils. View quote
Plutarch
What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle. View quote
Golda Meir
The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace. View quote
H. L. Mencken
If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an educational disgrace. It is debauching the whole idea of a university, and I would strongly encourage any members of Liberty University who may be here... to leave and go to a proper university. View quote
Richard Dawkins
This I have seen in life-those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step; those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. View quote
Sydney Smith
When we read or hear how some professed Christian has turned defaulter, or lapsed into drunkenness, or slipped from the communion table into open disgrace, it simply means than a human arm has broken. The man has forsaken the everlasting arms. (Theodore L. Cuyler)
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail. View quote
Henry Ford
A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man. View quote
Helen Fisher
However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition. View quote
Adam Rickitt
It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. View quote
Benjamin E. Mays
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history. View quote
F. L. Lucas
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best. View quote
Jim Palmer
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress. View quote
Peter Stone
I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything. View quote
Ronnie Milsap
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power. View quote
Thomas Willis
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy? (Robert Walpole)
Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it. View quote
John Grisham
This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. View quote
Dante Alighieri
This is not an opportunity to talk about difficult matters privately or in a closed environment. This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree. View quote
Clarence Thomas
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake. View quote
Daniel Berrigan