Shame Quotations | Page 2

Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have jumped on. If so, shame on us. I tend to think not.

If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.

One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.’

There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.

I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.

A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate

We are going to make a change at quarterback. We're going to hand the ball to Marcus Stone. There's something missing (with the offense), and it's a shame that it's always pointed towards the quarterback. We're just going to take a look at this. We discussed it this morning with Jay and Marcus.

This was a shame because I really thought our pitchers did better than the score indicated. Cody did a good job. I don't know. But we'll get it turned around before long.

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

We've spent the last three months getting ready for this race. If one more hour makes that much of a difference, then shame on us.

I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion.

Guilt says: I made a mistake. Shame says: I AM a mistake.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

Empathy is the antidote to shame,

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

We're happy with this result. It means a lot. It would be a shame if we lost the advantage achieved by this draw.

There are well-intentioned advertisers out there that do not understand where their ads are appearing. It is easy to shame those advertisers, but that does not solve the problem.

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.

Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.

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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.

Tell troth and shame the devil.

When we shed our earthly skin and when our real life begins, there will be no shame .... Just the love that we have made before time.

Let us together closely lie and kiss, There is no labor, no shame in this: This hath pleased, doth please, and long will please, never, Can this decay, but is beginning ever

Loren is hurting, and he was apparently hit below the belt. If that happened, it's a shame in a game played at such a high level.

Sharon Wilson is one of the hardest workers in Ector County. It's a shame what has happened.

Scott went to see a specialist in London and it was felt he may have a damaged cartilage so it was best to have the operation done sooner rather than later. It's another blow for the club and the player, but these are the cards we have been dealt, and we have to stick together and get on with things. It's a shame for Scott because he has been our best player this season and to lose him is a blow for everyone concerned.

Sender authentication solutions are very slow to reach maturity, and that is simply a shame on the ISPs, who have not been aggressive enough in developing the specs and deploying them in full force.

She stepped up big for us. It's just a shame it's her last one.

She had such a good year. It's a shame she had to come back to this.

Shame, shame on America. We were put to the test and we have failed.

Shame on you, ... How many more of other people's children are you willing to sacrifice?

Shame on us for creating perverse incentives that cause people to give up private coverage for Medicaid.

Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages

Mr. Gretzky has contributed so much to the sport it would be a shame to see anyone contaminated without proof.

My jaw dropped, ... I felt shame that I had to find out over the television, then felt sorrow and a little grief that he was going to die.

My feelings for you shame me into silence. The truth of this and your name will never be revealed. It is you who has made me realize the failure of my life. The thought of you fills me with longing and at the same time, a burning humiliation that produces scar tissue and dead brain cells. Your existence mocks me and I am unable to confront this. You have no idea of any of this. None of this is your fault. It is completely with me. It is you who makes me see what I really am. I am weak and out of touch with myself.

One fan told me they didn't really understand the free safety position, and said it's a shame that the free safety is the only person on the field that didn't get paid.

Of course I have TIME underneath my belt. It would be a shame to put that to waste. It's bizarre. Who came up with this concept. What happened? When did this happen. We are supposed to be liberated and it seems like we've declined. Someone told me that Mae West did not start her acting career until she turned 40.

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.

Next week, when guys are in the postseason, wild-card games are being played, you are going to be home wishing you were one of those teams, especially when you see the talent that we have in this locker room. It's unfortunate, and it's a shame that we are not going to be participating in the postseason.

Ridicule first, then shame and condescension are the weapons and ammunition - in the mental manipulation and psychological terrorism of the oppressed. Self-esteem, truth and fellowship among peers are their able defenses - in a counter-attack on the lies: of fear, inferiority and a mandatory deference - intended by the oppressors.

Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

Personally I'm gutted for Grant. We get on well and it will be a real shame that he won't be there.

I guess it says a lot for this whole team. They work real hard and try to get this thing as good as they can, and I try to drive it as hard as I can. Sometimes it's probably too hard and it gets me in trouble. I guess the whole goal is to be consistent. It's a shame it's this late in the year, but there's always next year.

I guess if we can't be first, we might as well be second. There's no shame in losing to (Lancaster). That's a top-notch basketball team. They're a tough, hard-nosed competitive team.

If we could have had a better first, I think we would have been in better shape. It's too bad about that second goal. It's a shame because Chris brought us here.

I didn't bring shame to my family, but I've never really done anything that's going to make them stand up and be proud. So from here on out, that's what I'm going to do.

I don't know what the heck I'm doing but, overall, everybody's just trying too hard. Hopefully, we can get it back because it would be a shame to waste what we've done so far.

I don't know that my mood is a Rolling Stones mood right now, ... It would be kind of a shame to miss, though.

I could see someone tearing this down and subdividing it for house lots, ... It would be a shame because of its history. I get a little teary-eyed whenever I think about not seeing this continue as a theater.

I am a Devils fan, but more than that, a hockey fan. I love to watch whatever game happens to be on. To be honest, while it is a shame that they are not playing, I have found other things to do. At this point, I really don't care if or when they come back.

I am so disappointed. It is a shame for football that in the year 2006, you still have racism.

But they know how important it was for their own kids. They know how important it was and still is for our students.And it's such a shame to have to lose a program that everyone agrees is a wonderful program.

Basically it's a shame for the powers to be not recognizing the job he did there. I wish someone there was strong enough to step up to the outside influences. What do they really want there?" ()

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: / I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

I look forward to the day when being called 'another Monica Lewinsky' refers to the hard work behind a master's degree in social psychology from the London School of Economics, after spending the first act of one's life deflecting the shame of a scandal that should have rested on the shoulders of a man old enough to have known better.

I have been astonished by the reactions and apparent shame of some of the U.S. television reporters who seemed overwhelmed to discover that there actually is poverty in America, ... They made me want to grab my television and shout 'Hello, dear reporter, yes, America actually does have poor and underprivileged people as well. Hello, yes, the president might well be slow to react but at times like this, that's all that an over-burdened, out-of-touch president can be.

I have lived in Kentucky all of my life. I am married to my high school sweetheart, David, a local police captain who has no shame in telling his coworkers that he is the inspiration for all of my heroes.

I had released all that was worst in me. It was a shame I had to kill them.

If I'm not in the dead heat of working on something, I can end up spending tons and tons of time on the Web, and I hate it. I feel the same shame I did in grad school when I was pretty much addicted to reruns of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. I wish someone would make the Web just go away. Just remove it from the earth.

I felt like somewhere down the road we would play Tennessee. I expected it to be in the Final Four. It's a shame that we have to play so early in the bracket.

I feel sorry for him because he had put in a lot of hard work. It's a shame that something like this had to happen because he was ready to break through.

I feel shame for what he said. Those are things that nobody should think or ... speak about,

I feel sad for the kid, but he's going to have to get himself together. I hope he does because he's got a great talent and a great ability. He has a gift, and it would be a shame to waste that gift.

I feel like it would be a shame to get rid of doubles, but I guess it's on the doubles players' responsibilities to find a way to make it lucrative.

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

If I was out there, yeah, it would be tempting to at least take a practice lap for old time's sake. It's a shame it's going away, it's well known nationally as one of the toughest short tracks around, and the reputation is deserved.

Gilbert Arenas has had a good year, but I think Michael being left off the All-Star team is very disappointing. He's having the best year of his career. He's leading a team that hasn't been under .500 all year. He's scored in double figures every game. He's improved every part of his game. And I think it's a shame that he's not on the team.

Frankly, I think Europe should have no shame given the efforts that have been undertaken, given the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy that was undertaken in 2003 and given the opening of Europe in general.

Fresno battled and battled, and you want to have a rival like that. I have so much respect for them. It's a shame that someone had to lose.

From my point of view everything is just fine now. It was a shame that that happened. Sometimes sport is like this, but now I think we are OK.

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

I don't say Iraq didn't make mistakes against this or that, but everybody has committed mistakes, ... If we all apologized to each other for all the mistakes we have committed, then we will be ready ... because apologizing is not a shame between brothers.

I don't remember us ever being in a situation where I thought we had it won, then lost it, thought we had it won, then lost it. It was really an amazing game. It's a shame any of those kids had to be on the other side of that. I would think in the 21 years I've been at Connecticut, I don't remember more than one or two games that turned out like this.

If anybody has a problem with Seba, they should talk to him. He isn't a difficult player, quite the opposite - and it would be a shame if Veron were not in the team for personal reasons. If he isn't around I hope it's because of football reasons or individual tastes and that it's also only for a short spell. I appreciate him as a person but he's also a great player. He's in good form at an important club.

If anybody has a complaint about that, shame on them. We've got people who don't know where their next drink of water is coming from. I'm living in a hotel. I feel blessed.

If the call had taken place two days before that call and I don't pick it up, then shame on me.

He was an incredible I mean, incredible high school quarterback. It's almost a shame that no one got a chance to see what this kid would have done on the next level.

He tried for the win with the Peterson and he gets put on his back. It's a shame for Jimmy because he's wrestling their kid tooth and nail and he gets pinned at the end. People won't understand when they see that -- it was a really good battle.

He who puts a friend to public shame is as guilty as a murderer

He's a young kid. He's 44, 45 and when you see that happen to anyone you feel shock. It's a shame and I hope everything's fine.

He doesn't look like he will be able to make it. He is just hurt too bad at this point. That's a shame for his first game in the Coliseum. I am really disappointed.

He gave me a stack of batting gloves. He said, 'Mike, if you need anything, you let me know.' I would see him other times, and he would tell me he heard I was playing well. He was always real cool. It's a shame he got a bad rap.

The purpose of the quiz is not to shame or embarrass anyone, but to make sure everyone is on the same page.