Shame Quotes

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

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.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

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.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

It's a shame anyone had to lose that. What a great rivalry.

President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.

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.

I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.

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.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

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.

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

I don't get to go home as much as I used to, which is a shame. But I don't mind because my mum moved over to London to look after me. I rented her a house just around the corner.

The only shame is to have none.

I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.