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For reasons that I don't fully understand, Twitter is a place where I don't feel ashamed to say my most shameful thoughts. — Mira Gonzalez

It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours. — Anne Bernays

In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation. — Raymond E. Feist

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres. — Marcus Aurelius

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. — Susan Sontag

The Jews are the most hateful and the most shameful of the small nations. — Reginald McKenna

To show his nervousness was not shameful; only to admit it. — Ernest Hemingway,

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. — Juvenal

Nothing was dirty. With Park.
Nothing could be shameful.
Because Park was the sun, and that was the only way Eleanor could think to explain it. — Rainbow Rowell

Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down, — George H. W. Bush

Cleanse your mind from anger, remembrance of evil, and shameful thoughts, and then you will find out how Christ dwells in you. — Maximus The Confessor

There's nothing shameful about taking orders from a woman of superior rank. — Lee Child

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value. — Karl Ove Knausgaard

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity. — Victor Hugo

It's a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky

I've ripped so many shameful secrets from my belly, held them out, covered in toxic grime for his inspection, but there's no reciprocity. — Lia Riley

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them. — Roh Moo-hyun

There is nothing shameful about being efficient. — Arpad Busson

All work which is necessary ennobles him who performs it. Only one thing is shameful - to contribute nothing to the community. — Adolf Hitler

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery. — Sallust

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing. — Margaret Deland

Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful. — Margaret Atwood

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful. — George Takei

It is a shameful thing to insult a child. — Mark Twain

It was shameful and embarrassing that there were two years in a row without a single actor of color nominated. That's insane. — Matt Damon

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. — Oriana Fallaci

Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age. — Widad Akreyi

First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered By self is, of all things. the most shameful and objectionable. — Plato

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold. — Erik Larson

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. — Mary Wortley Montagu

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. — Plato

Grace not only embraces you at your most shameful, it's the most effective antidote to sin. — Anna Broadway

You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful. — Pierce Brosnan

A priest should take to heart the shameful scene of shepards filthy while the sheep are clean. — Geoffrey Chaucer

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight. — Jean-Georges Noverre

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience. — Carolyn Mackler

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success. — John Milton

Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same. — Al-Ma'arri

Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace. — Tacitus

There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship. — Marcus Aurelius

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged. — F Scott Fitzgerald

God would rather have His people living in shameful captivity in a pagan land than living like pagans in the Holy Land and disgracing His name. — Warren W. Wiersbe

If you are proud for bad reasons, shame waits around the corner — Bangambiki Habyarimana

This sort of day makes indoor work seem shameful. So working outside, whether in the garden or the woods or on the front porch ... , is a sacrament. — Robert Michael Pyle

We have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God's message. 2 Corinthians 4:2 — Beth Moore

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing. — Curtis Sittenfeld

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever. — Michael M. Honda

It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful. — Henri Rousseau

Simulated ardor is a shameful form of lying. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Robbery is a serious, shameful matter, Captain Blood." "I know it is. I've practised a good deal of it myself. — Rafael Sabatini

The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world. — Ethan Zuckerman

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer. — Adolf Hitler

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. — E.F. Schumacher

Our situation was so desperate that only the death of His own Son on a cruel and shameful cross was sufficient to resolve the problem. — Jerry Bridges

Do not ever get agitated by provoking thoughts and actions.
Always keep your calm. This will shame the alien. — Lailah Gifty Akita

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries. — Thurgood Marshall

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds. — Sophocles

Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children — Ban Ki-moon

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful. — Bill Pascrell

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. — Oscar Wilde

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning. — David Hackworth

I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies. — Charlie Sheen

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity. — Rumi

It is no shameful thing to be beaten when outnumbered, not when you were brave enough to try. — Alexandra Bracken

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. — Victor Hugo

How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet. — Anne Rice

Malevolence is shameful but satisfying. — Mason Cooley

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. — Phaedrus

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions ... How many evils has religion caused? — Lucretius

Your father? What he do? He no plumber, is he? I no trust plumbers. Or Disney World. Working with mice, very shameful. — Ana Huang

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. — Ayn Rand

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know. — Leon Battista Alberti

That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. — William Shakespeare

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. — Mary McCarthy

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. — Pliny The Elder

That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past. — Malachy McCourt

Any shameful habits? Hobbies?" "Donuts. — Mina V. Esguerra

It's shameful for a devil to be good. — Ljupka Cvetanova

It's so shameful of me: I like you. — Morrissey

It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children. — Kevin Eubanks

Anyone who deliberately makes someone else feel less, feel helpless? That person is a coward. They're the weak ones, the shameful ones. What — J.D. Robb

It would be a crime to eat such a mouse!" he proclaimed everywhere. "An absolute, shameful, yummy crime. — Peter S. Beagle

I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman. — Iggy Pop

It may be shameful to be happy by oneself. — Albert Camus

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure. — Blaise Pascal

Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight. — Isaac Watts

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry

There is nothing shameful in wanting, Venetia. There's only shame in not getting. — Karen Hawkins

Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women. — Sophocles

Being a single mother without a husband was considered shameful in all — Erik Valeur

The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me. — Ralph Peters

There is nothing shameful about loving someone. There is only shame in making them feel bad for doing so. — Shannon L. Alder

Tobias Eaton was a shameful name, and now it is a powerful one. — Veronica Roth

The Libertarian Party is a shameful party — Dennis Prager

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed. — Philip Jose Farmer

Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful. — Emma Woolf