Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
~By Edward F. Halifax ~
I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.
~By Christine McVie ~
Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
~By Blake Edwards ~
Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.
~By David Axelrod ~
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
~By Johannes Kepler ~
We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it.
~By Jennifer Saunders ~
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
~By John Dryden ~
The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.
~By Rebecca Loos ~
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
~By George Crook ~
Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
~By Robert Towne ~
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
~By Titus Livius ~
But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.
~By Richard Perle ~
Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
~By Hal Boyle ~
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
~By William Cowper ~
The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.
~By Michael M. Honda ~
It's a shame anyone had to lose that. What a great rivalry.
~By Mike Tice ~
Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
~By Andrei Platonov ~
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?
~By Robert Wyatt ~
We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.
~By Michelle Malkin ~
Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
~By Mother Teresa ~
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
~By John Owen ~
After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.
~By Terry Brooks ~
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
~By Anacharsis ~
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
~By Martha Beck ~
I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
~By Randy Harrison ~
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
~By Confucius ~
I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.
~By Leo Kottke ~
The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
~By E. M. Forster ~
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful.
~By Judy Collins ~
No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
~By Julian Casablancas ~
Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.
~By Richard Widmark ~
Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
~By Douglas Hyde ~
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
~By Izaak Walton ~
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
~By John Leonard ~
This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.
~By Pierce Brosnan ~
You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.
~By Whoopi Goldberg ~
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.
~By Kevin Eubanks ~
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.
~By Marian McPartland ~
I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.
~By Melissa Leo ~
And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
~By Robert Half ~
We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.
~By Steve Brown ~
It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.
~By Ben Harper ~
But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.
~By Julie Taymor ~
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
~By Will Smith ~
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
~By Jean Genet ~
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
~By Randall Terry ~
It's nothing to be ashamed of and that there are even beneficial traits associated with the condition. Most importantly, acknowledge yourself for who you are and if you're struggling with anything resembling ADD get professionally diagnosed.
~By Christopher Knight ~
I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.
~By Stephen Rea ~
I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
~By Pat Summerall ~
I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.
~By Wesley Clark ~
I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.
~By Martin McGuinness ~
It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour.
~By Paul Ince ~
I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.
~By Richie Allen ~
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
~By Jock Sturges ~
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.
~By Louie Anderson ~
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
~By Frank Lautenberg ~
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.
~By Chrissie Hynde ~
But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
~By George Takei ~
It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
~By Gary Kemp ~
And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
~By Sydney Smith ~
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
~By Flannery O'Connor ~
I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall. But I don't wear them any more because you don't have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can't even remember the last time I wore heels.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
~By Marc Almond ~
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
~By Robertson Davies ~
You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
~By Ted Allen ~
It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
~By Henry Lawson ~
I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
I promise not to become a source of shame for you.
~By Mikhail Saakashvili ~
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?
~By Rene Cassin ~
I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies.
~By Tommy Kirk ~
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
~By Stephen King ~
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