Guilty Quotes - Page 29

• You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

  Paul Theroux

  Thinking, Secret, Earth

  Paul Theroux (2008). “Ghost train to the eastern star: on the tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar”

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• The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

  David J. Lieberman

  Silence, Uncomfortable

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• And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other, keep in mind that a book that entertains without enlightening can still be a guilty pleasure, but a book that enlightens without entertaining is algebra.

  Pete Dexter

  Book, Mind, Enlightening

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• I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.

  Michael Jackson

  Sitting, Feels, Knows

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• Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, yet these same people are constantly insinuating that you're cheap. (It reminded me of medicine, another area where you shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, who make you feel guilty for questioning a bill.) Construction workers are the blue-collar version of the snooty salespeople at Gucci who make $8 an hour but look down on you if you balk at a $400 alligator wallet.

  Margo Kaufman

  Construction Workers, Blue, Medicine

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• Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called "permissiveness" but is really neglect.

  C. Sommerville

  Teacher, Children, School

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• When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.

  Peter Eisenman

  United States, Wells, Anti Semitism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I felt guilty because I survived.

  Edgar Hilsenrath

  Felt, Survived

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If man is able to live healthily as a vegetarian but chooses not to be one, then man is guilty of eating meat!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Meat, Able

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• Kenneth Copeland is a friend, innocent until proven guilty.

  Mike Huckabee

  Innocent, Kenneth, Proven

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• Those who feel guilty are afraid; and those who are afraid somehow feel guilty. To the onlooker, too, the fearful seem guilty.

  Eric Hoffer

  Feels, Fearful, Seems

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• Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.

  George Orwell

  Saint, Tests, Innocent

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950”

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• We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Ignorance, Errors, Guarantees

  "Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Post-war American National Security Policy". Book by John Lewis Gaddis, 1982.

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• Guilt is always a good thing. If I kick you in the groin right now and don't feel guilty about it there's something wrong with me. Something's wrong with my conscience.

  Lino Rulli

  Guilt, Good Things, Kicks

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• People who expect to feel guilty tend to be more sympathetic, to put themselves into other people's shoes, to think about the consequences of their behaviour before acting, and to treasure their morals. As a result they are less prone to lie, cheat or behave immorally when they conduct a business deal or spot an opportunity to make money, studies suggest. They are also likely to make better employees because people who think less about the future results of their actions are more likely to be late, to steal or to be rude to clients.

  David D. Burns

  Lying, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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• What is the point of abusing yourself with guilt in the first place? If you did make a mistake and act in a hurtful way, your guilt won't reverse your blunder in some magical manner. It won't speed your learning processes so as to reduce the chance you'll make the same mistake in the future. Other people won't love and respect you more because you are feeling guilty and putting yourself down in this manner. Nor will your guilt lead to productive living. So what's the point?

  David D. Burns

  Mistake, People, Feelings

  Source: time.com

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• Football is my guilty pleasure.

  John Nettles

  Football, Pleasure, Guilty Pleasure

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• My husband is a very present husband, and that has made going to work feel easier. I don't feel guilty. I definitely feel less guilt because I know he's there during breakfast, lunch and supper if I'm not.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Husband, Lunch, Guilt

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Funny but, for me, the Bible was a hobby before it was a serious study. It was the thing I'd sneak off and do on the side, feeling rather guilty because I wasn't doing my real school homework or whatever... and never thinking I would make it a life's work.

  N. T. Wright

  Real, School, Thinking

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• We have to train ourselves to use words accurately. And there's so much loose Christian talk, for which I've no doubt been as guilty as any.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Doubt, Use

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I try to learn something from every character I take on. I try to better myself personally from it and Red allowed me to go ahead and accept what I did. Even though I had passion driving me, I still felt a little guilty that I gave up all the businesses in the pursuit of happiness.

  Drew Waters

  Passion, Character, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It's a very selfish time. When I'm here at home, my responsibilities are far greater. I'm forced to be way more selfless. My priorities are so far down the list that it's hard to see them. And yet, when I'm on tour, I basically have to get the show right, every night, but the days are really constructed around selfish activities for self-improvement, or not. That's where I feel guilty because I know that life is going on full-speed when I'm not around.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Selfish, Home, Responsibility

  Source: collider.com

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• There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Unbearable, Thieves, Unjust

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• There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial for political offenses, the nationalization or expropriation of private property, and censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Party, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.388, Penguin

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• Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Children, Wall, Faces

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