Shame Quotes - Page 24

• Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.

  Michelangelo

  Death, Sweet, Fall

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• Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

  Pat Conroy

  Military, Doctors, Sunglasses

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Great Santini: A Novel”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.

  Norman Mailer

  Mean, Important, Today

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Reflection, People, Interesting

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• Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Giving, Poor

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• Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away.

  Sean O'Casey

  Humor, Vanity, Self

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• Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

  Ellen Key

  Pain, Punishment, Giving

  Ellen Key (1909). “The Century of the Child”

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• A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.

  Propertius

  Military, Soldier, Weapons

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• A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

  Colin Powell

  Moral, Compass, Moral Compass

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.

  Rebecca St. James

  Sadness, Ashes, Cry

  Song: Pray, Album: Pray

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• Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Art, Kings, Sadness

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

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• Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Pain, Sadness, Feel Better

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• The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.

  Janet Malcolm

  Beach, Grieving, Self

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• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

  Xunzi

  Dog, Numbers, Knowing

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• Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Country, Creating Life, Agents

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• It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.

  Gary Oldman

  Years, Cities, California

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• Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.

  Evan Davis

  Struggle, Views, Hands

  "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• I don't have any shame.

  Conrad Black

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• Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

  Julianna Baggott

  Young

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• What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Levels, Stuff, Today

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• That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Moving, Want, Impossible

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

  Emma Donoghue

  Thinking, Would Be, Way

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• I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.

  Len Goodman

  Golf, Way

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• Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

  Bob Dylan

  Fire, Flames, Names

  Song: Ain’t No Man Righteous

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• There's a man upon that ledge, he's only cleaning windows. What a shame for the pain we're missing. Gonna lean back on my wall and pray for him to fall.

  Pete Townshend

  Wall, Pain, Fall

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