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 ~
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
~By Jane Pauley ~
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 ~
The only shame is to have none.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.
~By Christine McVie ~
I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
~By Eminem ~
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
~By John Dryden ~
It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms.
~By King Hassan II ~
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 ~
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 find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
~By Edward Kennedy ~
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
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 ~
Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.
~By Johann Most ~
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 was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
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 ~
Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
~By Andrei Platonov ~
In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.
~By Michael Lewis ~
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 ~
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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 ~
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
~By Howard Zinn ~
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 books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
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 ~
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's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
~By Marc Almond ~
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.
~By Henry Constable ~
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 ~
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
~By Mary Wortley ~
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 ~
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
~By John Abbott ~
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
~By Anacharsis ~
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
~By Ugo Betti ~
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 ~
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 ~
Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
~By Mark Millar ~
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
I gave up shame a long time ago.
~By John Lithgow ~
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
~By Charles Simmons ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
~By John Lyly ~
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
~By Phaedrus ~
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
~By Aeschylus ~
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 ~
But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
~By Minnie Driver ~
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 ~
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 ~
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
~By Will Rogers ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
~By Naomi Watts ~
I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
~By Oliver North ~
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 ~
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 ~
Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.
~By Burt Bacharach ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
~By Edgar Rice Burroghs ~
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
~By Ralph Peters ~
I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.
~By Sara Gilbert ~
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
~By Sallust ~
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 ~
Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
~By Muhammad Yunus ~
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
~By Confucius ~
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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 ~
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
~By George Farquhar ~
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
~By Jock Sturges ~
I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.
~By Evan Hunter ~
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
~By Titus Livius ~
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 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 ~
You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
~By Will Smith ~
For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
~By Sophocles ~
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 haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.
~By Martin McGuinness ~
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
~By Isoroku Yamamoto ~
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
~By William Cowper ~
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 ~
It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.
~By Steve Brown ~
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 ~
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