I'm not an ascetic and please don't use the word zen, which is so lightly bandied about these days. Being zen. . . It's shameful to talk in such a way. I haven't become an ascetic but I'm not going to build up another collection. I'm going to create my new environment. I already know what I want.
On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.
To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
The Jews are the most hateful and the most shameful of the small nations.
Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the Fashion being heralded.
It is a shameful thing to insult a child.
Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so that you yourself do not fall into the temptation in which they abide. . . Do not be angry at anyone and do not hate anyone, neither for their faith, nor for their shameful deeds. . . Do not foster hatred for the sinner, for we are all guilty. . . Hate his sins, and pray for him, so that you may be made like unto Christ, who had no dislike for sinners, but prayed for them.
That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private.
I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.
The Libertarian Party is a shameful party
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. . . The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.
Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge?
We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed.
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.
My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.
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.
What is important to us is to reverse the shameful course being pursued by America. It won't be easy, but it must and can be done.
Even if their child is useless, parents will not find them shameful. But if you're an outstanding child, you don't have the right to find your parents shameful.