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 ~
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 ~
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
~By Izaak Walton ~
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
~By Alexander Pope ~
When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
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 ~
It's kind of a shame that it's even an issue. Not being gay, I can't fully appreciate how complicated that is. In the article, the interviewer asked me, and I said that if I were, I would just say it.
~By Scott Wolf ~
When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.
~By Pamela Stephenson ~
The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.
~By Michael M. Honda ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
~By Jock Sturges ~
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
~By William Faulkner ~
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 ~
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
~By Aeschylus ~
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 ~
It's not about me. It's about not having to be ashamed.
~By Gene Robinson ~
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
~By Phaedrus ~
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 ~
You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.
~By Adam Sandler ~
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
~By Titus Livius ~
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
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's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour.
~By Paul Ince ~
I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.
~By Christine McVie ~
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
~By William Harvey ~
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.
~By Billy Mays ~
Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
~By J. Irwin Miller ~
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
~By George Farquhar ~
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 ~
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
~By A. E. Housman ~
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
~By Randy Harrison ~
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
~By John Lyly ~
I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
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 ~
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 ~
A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
~By Kong Fu Zi ~
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 ~
Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
~By Andrei Platonov ~
I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
~By Kristin Scott Thomas ~
I promise not to become a source of shame for you.
~By Mikhail Saakashvili ~
I gave up shame a long time ago.
~By John Lithgow ~
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 ~
While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.
~By Ken Mehlman ~
The public have neither shame or gratitude.
~By William Hazlitt ~
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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.
~By Warren Beatty ~
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 ~
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
~By Earl Wilson ~
We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.
~By Michelle Malkin ~
I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
~By Fanny Burney ~
I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.
~By Rebecca Loos ~
The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
~By Cat Stevens ~
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 ~
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
~By Solomon Schechter ~
Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.
~By Howard Dean ~
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
~By Jane Pauley ~
Doubt is the brother of shame.
~By Erik Erikson ~
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
~By Anacharsis ~
Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
~By Marc Almond ~
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 ~
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
~By Robert Half ~
I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.
~By Elton John ~
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
~By Louis Kronenberger ~
Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.
~By Tori Amos ~
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 ~
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
~By Plato ~
I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
~By Michael C. Hall ~
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 ~
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 also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that.
~By Roma Downey ~
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way.
~By Davy Jones ~
Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.
~By Sylvia Kristel ~
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 ~
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 ~
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
~By Thomas de Quincey ~
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
~By Flannery O'Connor ~
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
~By John Updike ~
The shameful never have dear friends.
~By Isaac de Benserade ~
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.
~By Brooke Shields ~
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 ~
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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 ~
Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
~By Bill Pascrell ~
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.
~By David Hackworth ~
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
~By John Locke ~
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