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“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

“Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.”

Shame Damn Grammar

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame.”

Thinking Trying Shame Damn Ashamed

Author:Leighton Meester

“Damn it's a shame you're the mighty queen of vials, With a wide-eyed look and a rotten-toothed smile. Used to walk with a swagger, now you simply stagger From one spot on, to the next spot on, to the next spot on, to the next.”

Looks Used Next Walks Shame Hip Hop Rap Wide Spots Queens Damn Rotten Swagger

Author:Sadat X

“It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?”

People Want Mind Hands Sound Shame Damn Broads Public Speaking Surgeons Cockneys

Author:Eileen Atkins

“You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a damn shame!”; “The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them”; “God doesn’t want you to have your pie-in-the-sky, by and by, when you die. He wants you to have it now with a cherry on top!”; and “If it’s that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn’t even have a bribe for the gatekeeper!”

“Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.”

Men Creatures Devil Shame Rational Firm Damn Disagree Hold Me Paradise Lost Book 2

Book:The Paradise lost

Source: The Paradise lost

“Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it.”

People Giving Might Challenges Teacher Shame Trade Treasure Damn Elephants Gardener Great Teacher Ivory Don't Give A Damn

Author:Virginia McKenna

“The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.”

Mean Has Beens Important Today Spirit Modern Shame Threat Ridiculous Damn Our Time Sickness Petty Modernism Damn Things Extermination

Book:Conversations with Norman Mailer

Source: Conversations with Norman Mailer