Guilty Quotes - Page 20

• Dear Procrastinator: Taking action in and of itself is not difficult, but is in fact satisfying and is usually followed by a sense of pride & accomplishment. However, it is THINKING about the action that you should be taking and NOT taking it that's difficult, as it leaves you feeling guilty and unsatisfied. THE SOLUTION: Stop thinking and take action NOW.

  Hal Elrod

  Pride, Thinking, Accomplishment

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Sep 03, 2010

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• So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instill in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family.

  Dorothy Day

  Mean, Men, Heaven

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• The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.

  Wendell Berry

  Character, Culture, Answers

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.198, Counterpoint Press

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• I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.

  Ester Dean

  Song, Writing, Transition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always been monogamous - [within it] I've been in love with people, but very platonically. For me, monogamous love is about learning how to be able to trust someone completely; so you need to be able to think you can trust them. But that doesn't mean you can't have extraordinary feelings for other people and not feel guilty about them, but not necessarily go and wreck marriages and consummate, and you don't have to do all that.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Mean, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefarious conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none.

  Neal Stephenson

  Hypocrite, Views, Hypocrisy

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• More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Design, Weakness

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• Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

  George Eliot

  Darkness, Secret, Wish

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.90, 谷月社

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• It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

  Publilius Syrus

  Guilt, Innocent, Easy

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• A guilty conscience never feels secure.

  Publilius Syrus

  Guilt, Feels, Secure

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• The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Doors, Self

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• ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Views, Knowing, Matter

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2352, Delphi Classics

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• I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

  Gloria Steinem

  Taken, Responsibility, Giving

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• A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Men, Poverty

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.158

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• My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

  John Dryden

  Heart, Hands, Guilt

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.94

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• Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.

  John Dryden

  Revenge, Night, Mind

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• For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

  Juvenal

  Deeds, Crime

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Satires, XIII, line 209, 1922.

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• Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender

  Juvenal

  Mind, Faults, Proportion

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• Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

  William Cowper

  Simple, Men, Grace

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.556

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• The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Law, Long, Forgotten

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• It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.

  Rick Warren

  Study, Seems

  Rick Warren, Richard Warren (1981). “Twelve Dynamic Bible Study Methods”, Chariot Victor Publishing

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• The Argentineans practice on the court for two hours a day, then they must practice in front of a mirror for two more hour saying 'I'm not guilty.'

  Vince Spadea

  Mirrors, Practice, Two

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• The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Feelings, Earth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.526, Modern Library

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• Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it.

  Sue Thoele

  Writing, Guilt, Crosses

  Sue Patton Thoele (2002). “The Woman's Book of Confidence: Meditations for Strength and Inspiration”, p.7, Conari Press

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• Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments, but by reducing God to some benevolent "man upstairs" whose only attributes are love and tolerance, and who could not care less about sin, they truly have transgressed God's commandment. They have created a god in their mind who does not actually exist and will on the day of judgment, not be able to offer them any help.

  Charlie Campbell

  Men, People, Tolerance

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