Shameful Quotes - Page 9

• I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Struggle, Embarrassing, Meltdowns

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• And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

  Warren Beatty

  Teacher, School, Safety

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• I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Europe, Students, Sponsors

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• Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

  William Hague

  Rights, Iran, Leader

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• I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.

  Adele

  Artist, Thinking, Names

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• No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

  Frederic Farrar

  Lonely, Work, Men

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• Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.

  John Hancock

  Children, Passion, Eye

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• My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mother, Fall, Men

  "Les Confidences: Confidential Disclosures" by Alphonse de Lamartine, translated by Eugène Plunkett, New York: D. Appleton & Co., (Book IV, Note VIII, p. 60), 1857.

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• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

  George Santayana

  Long, Lasts, Firsts

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word "is". Literal and symbolic knowledge. The unknowable”

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• There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world.

  Carl Jung

  Jesus, Reality, Order

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the Fashion being heralded.

  Roland Barthes

  Fashion, Past, Doe

  Roland Barthes (1983). “Systeme de la Mode”, p.128, Univ of California Press

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• If... God highly exalted Christ because He humbled Himself, suffered dishonour, was tempted and endured a shameful cross and death for our sake, how will He save, glorify and raise us up if we neither choose humility, nor show love to our fellows, nor gain our souls by enduring temptation (cf. Lk. 21:19), nor follow the saving Guide through the 'strait gate' and along the 'narrow way' leading to eternal life (Mt. 7:14)? To this end we were called, says Peter, the chief Apostle, ' Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that we should follow His steps' (I Pet. 2:21).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Humility, Cfs

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• Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

  Salman Rushdie

  Knowing, Important, Stories

  "Salman Rushdie: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Guest of Honor Speech at the 29th World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, Washington, 1961.

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• Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Silence, Criticism

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• How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.

  Anne Rice

  Sweet, Insipid, Predictable

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2444, Ballantine Books

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• Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Lying, Sometimes, Implied

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.96

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• I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Sorrow, Today

  "Blair: Britain's 'sorrow' for shame of slave trade" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2006.

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• I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His shameful actions toward Humanity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, Humanity, Action

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• The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

  Milovan ?ilas

  Integrity, Socialism, Communism

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• The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the ground are far more truly the man's property, because they are accomplishing something for him, slothful and shameful though it be. And what is a lost soul? Is it not one that God cannot use, or one that cannot use God? Trustless, prayerless, fruitless, loveless--is it not so far lost? So may a man have a soul that is lost and be dead while he lives.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Men, Soul, Use

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

  George Santayana

  Thinking, Firsts, Surrender

  Scepticism and Animal Faith ch. 9 (1923)

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• Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Guilt, Weight

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.90

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• Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

  Juvenal

  Latin, Greek, Ignorant

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 460, Satires, VI, line 187, 1922.

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• So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

  John Milton

  Perseverance, Giving, Silence

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.65, BookCaps Study Guides

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