Shameful Quotes
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.
The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.
Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.
We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.
Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.
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.
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.
When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.
Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.
Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.
The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
Even if their child is useless, parents will not find them shameful. But if you're an outstanding child, you don't have the right to find your parents shameful.
Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.
Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.
Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.
I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry.
It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.
Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong.
I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.
I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.
All work which is necessary ennobles him who performs it. Only one thing is shameful - to contribute nothing to the community.
...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.
I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His shameful actions toward Humanity.
It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.
In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has deeply shocked and hurt me. Enough is enough.
Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.
We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
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.
Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge?
