Shame Quotes

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.
Gunter Grass

Sun, Serious, Bit

I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only the opinion-makers and the 'opinion elites' who turn up their noses.
Bill James

Opinion, Turn, Crime

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.
Leo Kottke

Nice, Forget, Different

I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you don't show up.
Stephen Moyer

Show, Half, Trainer

Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money.
James Spader

Money, Job, Passion

I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.
Anthony Weiner

Wife, Trying, Regret

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
Edward F. Halifax

Men, Ignorance, Political

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.
Owen Hart

Dad, End, Between

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.
Susie Orbach

Failure, Hurt, Emotional

My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.
Carey Mulligan

Character, Job, Person

I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.
Matt Cameron

Life, Music, Good

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.
Kyra Sedgwick

Emotion, Drive, Intense

I gave up shame a long time ago.
John Lithgow

Time, Long, Gave

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.
Julianna Baggott

Fear, Young, Releasing

It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.
Ryne Sandberg

Happen, Two, Fans

We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.
Neil Tennant

Hope, Hate, Moving

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
Randy Harrison

Family, Actually, Born

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
Algernon Charles Swinburne

Kiss, Miss, Longer

I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.
Wesley Clark

Democracy, Living, Put

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.
Steve Brown

Rock, Mind, Real

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Anacharsis

Health, Second, Madness

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
Blake Edwards

Human, Unhappy, Order

I think the thing that makes 'NCIS' so special is the team and the group. And there's our fearless leader, Mark Harmon. We all really enjoy working together, so it would be a shame if we weren't all there having fun together.
Michael Weatherly

Fun, Together, Enjoy

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
A. E. Housman

Life, Men, Live

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.
Lloyd Banks

Family, Him, Able

Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.
Ronnie Spector

Dead, Either, Worked

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.
Antony Sher

Love, Why, Energy

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.
Pamela Stephenson

Proud, Off, High

I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that.
Roma Downey

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

Love, Fear, Compassion

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