Guilty Quotes - Page 28

• Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

  Edward Young

  Men, Good Man, Guilt

  Edward Young (1813). “The poetical works of Edward Young. Collated with the best eds.: by T. Park”

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• Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.

  Edward Young

  Church, Proud, Way

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.269

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• The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

  Graham Greene

  Glasses, Hands, Guilt

  Graham Greene (1971). “Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus”, Viking Pr

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• As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Real, Life Is, Responsible

  1958 Nabokov's Dozen, bibliographical note.

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• I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused.

  William Joyce

  Able, Resentment, Deceitful

  Statement given by William Joyce under caution (May 31, 1945) as quoted in "The Trial of William Joyce" edited by J. W. Hall (p. 58), 1946.

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• I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible, but human beings invest a lot of cleverness trying to cling to past events, real or imagined. And because we can't succeed, we get angry and frustrated and feel guilty. Except the Buddhists.

  Robert Reed

  Buddhist, Real, Believe

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• The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a school boy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.

  Lord Byron

  School, Son, Boys

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• We deny ourselves the smallest comfort or pleasure; even if it only costs a few dollars. This is not prosperous spending. Prosperity says you can have red bell peppers instead of green, rib eyes instead of sirloin, and romaine instead of iceberg. It's not about spending everything you make, but enjoying what you do spend without felling guilty about it ... The positive feelings and emotions that prosperous spending brings is what attracts more positive things in your life.

  Joe Vitale

  Eye, Feelings, Bells

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• I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Christian, Problem, Sometimes

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set.

  Willem Dafoe

  Pride, Kind, Pleasure

  "Mr Bean's Holiday - Willem Dafoe interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed away in 2003. I became very guilty and began to spend a lot of time with older people. I listened carefully to their stories.

  Mabel Cheung

  Daughter, Mother, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

  Marge Piercy

  Writing, Self, Driven

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Feelings, Guilt, Deeds

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• It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

  Anton Chekhov

  Punishment, Champion, Suffering

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• The best thing about me is that I am generally very honest - not hurtfully honest, but honest. The worst thing about me is that everybody can make me feel guilty. I feel responsible about things that don't even concern me.

  Carolyn Jones

  Honest, Responsible, Worst

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but I am quite used to that and they won't keep me from giving you a few suggestions, even if it is merely an exercise in futility whose only effect is to make you feel guilty.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Exercise, Long, Giving

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• Growning up I felt incredibly guilty anout my fantasies and the things I wanted sexually. I was like: "Why do I feel this way? I don't understand it, but nobody's going to talk to me about it because we're not allowed to talk about that..."

  Sasha Grey

  Way, Fantasy, Talk To Me

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It`s probably fair to say I have taken myself too seriously on some jobs. I`m sure I`m more guilty of being difficult than I`d like to remember. I don`t regret my desires; I`ve regretted the way I would communicate my desires. Maybe I`ve lost a job because of some rumor, I doubt it. But nobody good that I`ve worked with has ever said anything negative about me, because we`ve never had a negative experience. By good, I mean directors who do their homework, people that are passionate, crazy, never sleep, and do like I do and just go after it.

  Val Kilmer

  Jobs, Regret, Crazy

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• Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

  Frank Herbert

  Opportunity, Feelings, Guilt

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

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• I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Mean, Done

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.67, A&C Black

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• I'm absolutely confident that everybody that's been put to death is two things: One, they're guilty of the crime charged, and, secondly, they had full access to our courts, both state and federal.

  George W. Bush

  Two, Crime, States

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• If I am guilty of anything it is of believing what God said about children: 'Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven.' In no way do I think that I am God, but I try to be God-like in my heart.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Believe, Heart

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• 'Maybe' is what gets us into trouble, because I think constantly women are saying I'll try to do it, maybe I'll do it, I'll do it if I can," and then they're feeling guilty when inevitably they can't do everything.

  Debora Spar

  Thinking, Feelings, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We all have to pick our battles. You've got to draw a line in the sand and stand firm. And it's this squishiness that's really the enemy, like, "Well, I don't know, it's kind of OK but I kind of feel guilty, and I kind of want a bran muffin, I don't know, and I'm wearing a vest; it's crocheted." Shut up. Just pick your battle and just stand there, and whatever you are going to do, own it.

  Chicken John

  Enemy, Battle, Muffins

  "San Francisco Rejects American Apparel: Has the Fight Against Chain Stores Gone Too Far?". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. February 11, 2009.

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• I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Looks, Realizing, Reviews

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. January 1, 2009.

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