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“It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.”

Shame Painful Stupidity

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“The only crying shame about it is, when good things happen to you, you run short of time. It takes the same amount of time, however, to tell people, 'It's good to see you again. I'm sorry we only have a minute to talk,' as it does to say, 'I don't have time to talk with you' period.”

People Doe Happens Running Minutes Cry Amount Periods Shame Good Things Sorry Things Happen I'm Sorry You Again

Author:Barbara Mandrell

“Don't freight your answers with any notions of what you're "supposed" to do, and just see where your feelings point you. It can feel weird to be so formal about it, but if you're not used to doing it, then there's no shame in retraining yourself.”

Ifs Feels Feelings Used Answers Shame Notion Formal

Author:Carolyn Hax

“The outsider hero is hero riding into town, he's the gunslinger, shame - the same thing, he didn't want to do it anymore, he wanted to live a different life but part of who you are sort of haunts you and you can't run away from evil and if you have special skills, and most people are mistreated, which is unfortunately in our world, we always need an equalizer, that type of character to come to our rescue.”

“People always say, "You played such a strong character." I remember someone said that to me when I played a role in Shame, and she was a suicidal mess. I said, "She's not strong at all; she's incredibly weak." But "strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.”

People Believe Mean Persons Said Two Real Character Remember Strong Roles Weak Shame Mess Suicidal Depiction Not Strong Strong Character

Author:Carey Mulligan

“India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.”

Ifs Way Persons Said Left India Shame Untouchables

Author:Lal Bahadur Shastri

“Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.”

Thinking Life Is Shame Blunders

Book:The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems

Source: The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems

“Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.”

Doe Helping Heard Shame Therapy Pretending Good Friend

Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“Love all men as God, even if they hurt you or shame you. Be like Gandhi and Christ.”

Ifs Men Christ Hurt Shame

Author:Neem Karoli Baba

“There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden appearance of a malignant tumor.”

Should Blood Battle Pressure Shame Illness Appearance Mental Illness Tumors Blood Pressure High Blood Pressure

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.”

Children Home Running School Streets Safe Shame Dare Practicals Tolerate Safe Places

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.”

Wells Shame Masturbation

Author:Sigmund Freud

“If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame. If they are governed by virtue and rules of propriety are used to maintain order, they will have a sense of shame and will become good as well.”

People Ifs Trying Wells Law Used Order Virtue Shame Punishment Propriety

Author:Confucius

“It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.”

Stills Tools Shame Smell Owners Mud Our Words Misused

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Goose pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with tears of love and gratitude for this greatest of all conquerors of human misery and shame, and my breath came in little gasps. If I had not known that the Leader would have scorned such adulation, I might have fallen to my knees in unashamed worship, but instead I drew myself to attention, raised my arm in the eternal salute of the ancient Roman Legions and repeated the holy words, "Heil Hitler!"”

“The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.”

Reason Humanity Church Shame Encounters Troops Incapable Eastern Monk Fanatics Barbarians Swarms

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want to listen to. I have a lot of jazz. I adore Ralph Towner, Leo Kottke. I've always been a big Oscar Peterson fan. I've branched out a little bit more in rock-and-roll, but that's maybe because I'm 50 years old and I can now listen to Steely Dan again without shame. I adore the Grateful Dead. Creedence Clearwater Revival. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. All that's been fun to get back into. But I'm no longer interested in the Doobie Brothers.”

“Working with Jim Sheridan for instance, we did this movie Brothers. Jim will ask anybody - we'll get a delivery on set, and like the poor delivery guy will be like, "Here's your pizza," and he'll be like, "Come over here. Come here. I want to ask you a question. Do you think this is real? What do you think? Should we do another take?" And they're like, "I, uh, you want your pizza?" There's no shame in everybody's ideas. There's no shame in somebody not knowing.”

Thinking Want Should Ideas Real Guy Asks Poor Knowing Brother Shame Instance Not Knowing Pizza Delivery

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“There's no shame in somebody who doesn't necessarily do that job knowing a little bit more in that instance than you might know about your own job, you know, and I think that is where movies are such a collaborative art form.”

Thinking Knows Littles Art Might Jobs Form Bits Knowing Little Bit Shame Instance

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.”

Girl Walks Walking Paid Shame

Author:Billy Joel

“When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.”

Missing Shame Corporate Uncivilized

Author:Max Anders

“Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year need such an operation if they are to survive. How is the surgeon's scarce resource to be allocated? Charge whatever price is necessary to adjust supply and demand, say $50,000! 'For shame,' some will cry. 'Your market system will save only wealthy people.' For the moment, yes. But soon there will be hundreds of surgeons who will acquire the same skill; and, as in the case of the once scarce and expensive 'miracle drugs,' the price then will be within reach of all.”

“Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.”

Energy Deals Worry Produce Weight Shame Fats Sugar Spurs Glucose

Author:Bill Crawford

“It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.”

Knows Crime Shame Know Yourself

Book:Be Near Me

Source: Be Near Me

“Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of money. What is also needed is a temple of shame squared for things you didn't do that would have made you rich. Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn't remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?”

Ifs Trying Made Reality Lost Forget Mistake Rich Needed Terrible Shame Errors Stupidity Celebrate Temples Why Not Categories Lots Of Money Forget You Cognition

Author:Charlie Munger

“Shame on us if 100 years from now our grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by Global Warming, and they ask, 'How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen?'”

Ifs Years Has Beens Happens Asks Saws Planets Shame Global Warming Grandchildren Living On Those Who Came Before Us

Author:Joe Lieberman

“God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.”

Heart May Written Tears Judgment Shame Reciting Judgment Day

Author:W. H. Auden

“If you're out there and need help, please seek it. Be proud of your valiant day-to-day struggle. There is no shame in needing support.”

Ifs Needs Helping Support Struggle Proud Please Shame Day To Day Be Proud Need Help Valiant Proud Of You Help With Depression

Author:Jared Padalecki

“There's no shame in having to fight every day, but fighting every day, and presumably, if you're still alive to hear these words or read this interview, then you are winning your war. You're here.”

Ifs Stills War Fighting Winning Alive Shame Interviews Help With Depression

Author:Jared Padalecki

“Be ever more convinced that your guardian angel is really present, that he is ever at your side. St. Frances of Rome always saw him standing before her, his arms clasped at his breast, his eyes uplifted to Heaven; but at the slightest failing, he would cover his face as if in shame, and at times, turn his back to her.”

Ifs Eye Faces Turns Heaven Sides Saws Failing Arms Angel Standing Shame Convinced France His Eyes Breasts Rome Guardian Your Side Guardian Angel

Author:John Bosco

“We find ourselves in that situation where we want to believe, we want to think we're the exception, we want to think we can change someone or tame a lion or make a bad guy good or something like that but 9 times out of 10 we end up looking back going, "Oh, shame on me, should've seen that one coming!"”

Thinking Want Should Believe Ends Guy Situation Shame Exception Lions Looking Back Bad Guys Shame On Me

Author:Taylor Swift

“The vanished lives of all are filled with many shames. Therefore do not judge.”

Judging Shame Filled Do Not Judge

Author:Sri Yukteswar Giri

“A European brewery has purchased Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser, for $52 billion. Which is a a shame because if they had waited until happy hour, they could have paid half that.”

Ifs Hours Half Paid Shame Billions Makers Happy Hour Breweries Budweiser

Author:Conan O'Brien

“If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .”

“Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.”

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Author:John Cusack

“I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'”

Years Said Guy Talking Shame Down And Conservative Sat Wow This Guy Civility

Author:David Mamet

“What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.”

Ends Shame Arrogance

Author:Walter Russell Mead

“We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints.”

Should Has Beens Said Done Shows Knowing Shame Saint Injury Resentment Redeemer

Author:Teresa of Avila

“Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.”

Ifs Want Body Audience Laughing Comedy Jokes Shame Your Body Commit Uncomfortable Ashamed Shy

Author:John C. Reilly

“You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two, I think - I think it's that. I think it's absolute - it's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Two Nations Numbers Cases Rights Movement Gay Deserve Absolutes Shame Pro Life Basic Rights Travesty

Author:Jon Stewart

“We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is - on the brink of catastrophe - torn by polarizing hate, and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!”

Country Done Together Hate Truth Is Shame Our Country Damn Working Together Fragile Catastrophe Torn Things Done Polarizing

Author:Jon Stewart

“I think I've lost a lot of my gay fans to Gavin Henson. It's a shame because I really love them.”

Thinking Lost Fans Gay England Shame

Author:David Beckham

“There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.”

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Author:Theodor Adorno

“I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.”

I Can Use Mother Energy Ability Crime Majors Shame Discrimination Episodes Early Life

Author:Betty Friedan

“They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.”

Men Shame Seconds

Author:Greg Fitzsimmons

“Where will you go to seek Brahman? He is immanent in all beings. Here, here is the visible Brahman! Shame on those who, neglecting the visible Brahman, set their minds on other things! Here is the visible Brahman before you as tangible as a fruit in one's hand! Can't you see? Here - here - is Brahman!”

Mind Hands Shame Fruit Visible Neglect Tangible Brahman

Book:Awakened India

Source: Awakened India

“This country you're sitting in right now was not built on love, hugs, time-outs and trophies you didn't earn. This country was built on shame, humiliation and striving to be better. By the way, if you're in this room right now and you're successful... you didn't get there because someone loved you too much or gave you too many hugs or you got a trophy when you lost. You did it because at one point in your life, somebody turned to you and said you're a loser, and in that second, you decided to bust your ass to make them choke on that sentence... Or, your parents gave you the money.”

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Author:Christopher Titus

“Humans are born, small, weak and helpless. That's why we have family. And the elders of the family are the honoured guardians of our country's history. Unfortunately, in America, we, you know, lock those elders away out of view in nursing homes and go about our little lives. It's a great national shame and an irredeemable tragedy. Oh well.”

Knows Humans Wells Littles Country Home America Born Views Weak Tragedy Shame Our Country Locks Helpless Elders Guardian Nursing Oh Well Nursing Home

Author:Christopher Titus

“Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no shame in it.”

Kind Dies House Fire Painting Late Approach Shame Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgery

Author:Dana Gould