Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.
I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.
Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.
There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason. . . She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.
The more shame, the more clicks. The more clicks, the more advertising dollars.
Blowfish, did you say?" "Ah, no. Blofis, actually. " "Oh, I see," Poseidon said. "A shame. I quite like blowfish.
Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.
My father told me, "Don't do anything that would bring shame to the family. " I was always mindful of that. When I told him I wanted to pursue a career as an actor, my father said, "Look at what you see on television at the movies, is that what you want to be doing? Do you want to make a life out of that?" And I said, "Daddy, I'm going to change it".
The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.
I don't have any shame.
The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.
As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
I'm not one to hide anything, but I don't feel the need to comment directly on [my relationships]. . . I think it would be a shame to not live in the moment and not enjoy everything that's happening in fear of other people's opinions.
For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too.
I know people are going to be suspicious about everyone now. I know I don't have anything to hide. I've never done anything. It's just a shame it's gotten to this point.