27 quotes found
“I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.”
“The only reason that some people arent ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.”
“What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight," he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one.”
“For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I felt ashamed, even though my writing was the one thing that whispered oka...”
“You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious.”
“Im secretly looking forward to someone whom Im no longer ashamed to explain myself to, whom I can peel off all my metaphors and codes and reveal what the hell has happened all these years.”
“These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.”
“Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest”
“Willful ignorance is something to be ashamed of, not proud.”
“when a child is ridiculed, shamed, hurt or ignored when she experiences and expresses a legitimate dependency need, she will later be inclined to attach those same affective tones to her dependency...”
“O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live...Let ...”
“Many veterans feel guilty because they lived while others died. Some feel ashamed because they didnt bring all their men home and wonder what they could have done differently to save them. When the...”
“And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.”
“Woodget glanced into the dim shadows behind the trees. "What you be hiding fer?" he called."On such a night as this even the greatest may hide and not be ashamed," came the response.”
“I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feve...”
“Perfectionism sucks the air out of your uniqueness and leaves you empty, away from who you could become.”
“She's not ashamed of loving, although those she's loved are few in number; it was/is sweet and true. She's only ashamed she used love as an excuse.”
“If you feel ashamed about your need for love & support, it's because you were made to feel this way as a child. It's not a sign of weakness to want affirmation, reassurance or someone to count on; ...”
“Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.”
“I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?”
