I feel a little guilty only being an actor.
~By Blythe Danner ~
Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty.
~By Saddam Hussein ~
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.
~By Tom Selleck ~
If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.
~By Margaret Drabble ~
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.
~By Brian De Palma ~
I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
~By Francis Schaeffer ~
I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling?
~By Tommy Bond ~
Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.
~By Cathy Rindner Tempelsman ~
Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.
~By Alan Cohen ~
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?
~By Franz Schubert ~
Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?
~By William Hague ~
I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
~By Eamon de Valera ~
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.
~By Debra Messing ~
I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.
~By Connie Willis ~
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
~By Carolyn Wells ~
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
~By George Weah ~
With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.
~By Heather Locklear ~
What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.
~By Linda Vester ~
For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?
~By Tim Matheson ~
I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.
~By Jim Dale ~
We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.
~By Jack Cade ~
In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
~By P. D. James ~
I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
~By Ted Stevens ~
Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.
~By Drew Carey ~
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.
~By Sarah Polley ~
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
~By Henri Poincare ~
The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.
~By John Clayton ~
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
~By Lactantius ~
I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.
~By Alex Campbell ~
There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
~By Jude Law ~
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
~By Coco Chanel ~
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
~By Lucretius ~
I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.
~By Jonny Greenwood ~
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.
~By Janet Reno ~
I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.
~By Mike Farrell ~
Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing.
~By William Pepper ~
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
~By William Cowper ~
I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.
~By Lyn Nofziger ~
I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.
~By Sophia Bush ~
Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.
~By Thor Heyerdahl ~
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
~By Charlotte Lennox ~
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
~By John Frame ~
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
~By Erica Jong ~
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
~By Jessica Lange ~
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Parks said, he's guilty and that's the end of the story.
~By Tommy Bond ~
I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.
~By Roger Vadim ~
My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.
~By Teri Hatcher ~
What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
~By Jim Carrey ~
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty."
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.
~By Edward Burns ~
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!
~By Bette Davis ~
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
~By Ben Hecht ~
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
~By Ayn Rand ~
I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?
~By Monica Lewinsky ~
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
~By James Otis ~
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
~By Ovid ~
Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.
~By Jacques Verges ~
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot.
~By Patty Hearst ~
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.
~By George Jackson ~
There is no such thing as collective guilt.
~By Kurt Waldheim ~
The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.
~By Hamid Karzai ~
Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.
~By Donald Pleasence ~
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
~By William Shakespeare ~
I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
~By Phil McGraw ~
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
~By Thomas Francis Meagher ~
It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.
~By Dolores Ibarruri ~
I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
~By Jim Carrey ~
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
~By Peter Tosh ~
More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.
~By Anthony Anderson ~
I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.
~By Penelope Spheeris ~
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
~By Martha Beck ~
The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.
~By Dennis Miller ~
I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
~By Piers Anthony ~
Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
~By Max Frisch ~
All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.
~By Richard von Weizsaecker ~
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
~By Joan Didion ~
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
~By Franz Kafka ~
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
I'm absolutely, l00 percent, not guilty.
~By O. J. Simpson ~
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.
~By Frederic William Farrar ~
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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