Ashamed Quotes - Page 29

• I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Men, Monsters

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• Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.

  Mason Cooley

  Guilt, Shame, Form

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• The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.

  Norman Rockwell

  People, Evil, Lazy

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• Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.

  George W. Bush

  America, Citizens, Kind

  Address at Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., delivered 17 September 2001, Washington, D.C.

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• I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.

  Mason Cooley

  Faults, Criticize

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• The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknownin America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.

  Henry Adams

  Sex, Women, Humorous

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• No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Credit, Favors

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• Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Want, Return

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• You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Modesty, Obligation

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• The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Blood, Mind, Shame

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8239, Delphi Classics

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• Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is the master because he could knock her down with perfect ease, and break her bones with much greater facility than she could his. And yet, out of man's brute nature, out of that most ignoble in himself, has come his loudest assumption of superiority, his longest and lowest tyranny.

  Mary C. Ames

  Eye, Men, Perfect

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• The intellectual is always showing off,
  the lover is always getting lost.
  The intellectual runs away.
  afraid of drowning;
  the whole business of love
  is to drown in the sea.
  Intellectuals plan their repose;
  lovers are ashamed to rest.
  The lover is always alone.
  even surrounded by people;
  like water and oil, he remains apart.
  The man who goes to the trouble
  of giving advice to a lover
  get nothing. He's mocked by passion.
  Love is like musk. It attracts attention.
  Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.

  Rumi

  Love, Running, Passion

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Gratitude, Receiving, Favors

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• In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Wish, Half, Neighbor

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon, F. J. Sypher (1999). “Tales and sketches”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Morality, Intellect

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.213

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• We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Prayer, Blessing, Praying

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• I would never kill myself intentionally. I couldn't do that to my family, my friends ... But to have fate step in and give me a shove, that's a different matter. Then I have the exit, without the guilt. I am ashamed of myself for thinking like this. But more than anything, I am frightened that it makes me feel so much better to think about it. Sometimes it eases the terror, the sense that I am condemned eternally to this hell.

  Martha Manning

  Suicidal, Fate, Thinking

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• Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Country, Children, Dangerous World

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I have preached God's truth, so far as I know it, and I have not been ashamed of its peculiarities. That I might not stultify my testimony, I have cut myself clear of those who error from the faith, and even from those who associate with them.

  Charles Haddon

  Cutting, Errors, Might

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• A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one,
  if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.

  Florence Nightingale

  Girl, Pride, Opportunity

  Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale (1930). “Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England”

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• Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morality, Good Moral

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.194

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• We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless...We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action...No action.

  Michael Jackson

  Love, Children, Educational

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• A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.

  John Selden

  Wise, Men, World

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• Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as
  something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

  Pericles

  Beautiful, Real, Mind

  Funeral Oration, Athens, 430 B.C., in Thucydides 'History of the Peloponnesian War' ii.40, 1 (translation by Rex Warner)

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• I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Humble, Past, My Past

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