We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
~By Lillian Smith ~
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
~By Johannes Kepler ~
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 ~
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
~By Fanny Burney ~
Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
~By Plato ~
At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.
~By Ethel Rosenberg ~
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 ~
Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.
~By David Shuster ~
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 ~
We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.
~By Bryan Brown ~
KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.
~By Mike Wilson ~
Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
~By John Gielgud ~
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
~By George Sand ~
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 ~
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
~By Jean Racine ~
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
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 ~
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
~By B. B. King ~
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
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 ~
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
~By Phaedrus ~
The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
~By E. M. Forster ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
~By Kong Fu Zi ~
There really is something raw about sexuality that's real and good and we must continue to learn to not be ashamed of it. But - we have to honor the reality of practicing safer sex.
~By Kyan Douglas ~
I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.
~By Gerry Beckley ~
Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
~By Andrei Platonov ~
The only shame is to have none.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
~By Horace ~
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
~By Izaak Walton ~
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
~By Mike Pence ~
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick, t like my body.
~By Alicia Keys ~
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 ~
Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
~By Aimee Mann ~
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.
~By Randy Harrison ~
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
~By Charles Barkley ~
I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.
~By Christopher Gadsden ~
I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.
~By Lionel Blue ~
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
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 ~
I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I promise not to become a source of shame for you.
~By Mikhail Saakashvili ~
Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.
~By Burt Bacharach ~
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
~By Jane Pauley ~
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
~By Joseph Brodsky ~
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
~By Will Rogers ~
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
~By Eliza Farnham ~
I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.
~By Evan Hunter ~
When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?
~By Glenn Beck ~
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
~By Alexander Pope ~
The public have neither shame or gratitude.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
~By Hesiod ~
Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.
~By Michelle Malkin ~
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
~By John Lyly ~
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 ~
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
~By Karl A. Menninger ~
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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 ~
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.
~By Paul Westerberg ~
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
~By Shelley Winters ~
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
~By Tacitus ~
It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
~By William Faulkner ~
It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
~By Abu Bakr ~
Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.
~By Elton John ~
Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.
~By Arthur C. Brooks ~
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
~By Robert Half ~
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.
~By Robbie Coltrane ~
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
~By Peter Tosh ~
It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.
~By Kevin Eubanks ~
Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.
~By Lauryn Hill ~
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
~By William Cowper ~
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.
~By Peter Tork ~
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
~By Edward F. Halifax ~
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.
~By Ellen Key ~
When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
~By Tony Campolo ~
We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home remember that we got this far. We've got nothing to be ashamed about.
~By John Atkinson ~
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.
~By Xun Zi ~
The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
~By Rainer W. Fassbinder ~
I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq.
~By Dennis Cardoza ~
I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.
~By Sara Gilbert ~
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
~By Titus Livius ~
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 ~
Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
~By Mark Millar ~
There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
~By Owen Hart ~
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
~By Jock Sturges ~
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