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“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“Winning is very important to me, but at the end of the day, even if I lose, as long as I know I gave it everything I had, there's no shame in that.”

Ifs Knows Long Important Ends Winning Loses Shame The End Of The Day Mma

Author:Nick Newell

“End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.”

Ends Waiting Stage Police Shame Addiction

Author:David

“Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it; it is a vain journey, whose end affords less pleasure than the way.”

Way Firsts Ends Pleasure Journey Eternal Expectations Shame Vain Anticipation Crowns Fruition

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“that which is begun in self-confidence will end in shame.”

Ends Self Shame Self Confidence

Book:Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)

Source: Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)

“To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.”

Ideas Ends Self Feelings Prejudice Shame Fingers Naked Appearing Starks Axioms Reproach Nudity

Book:Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana ... from the Year 1772 to 1777 ; Elucidating the History of that Country and Describing Its Productions, Viz. Quadrupeds, Birds, [etc.] Trees, Shrubs, [etc.] with an Account of the Indians and Negroes of Guinea

Source: Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana ... from the Year 1772 to 1777 ; Elucidating the History of that Country and Describing Its Productions, Viz. Quadrupeds, Birds, [etc.] Trees, Shrubs, [etc.] with an Account of the Indians and Negroes of Guinea

“Take heart, and do not let disappointment or shame stop you from moving forward. The true outcome of life is only apparent at the very end.”

Heart Ends Moving Life Is Shame Disappointment Moving Forward Outcomes

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.”

Ends Turns Pleasure Shame Lust Mortals Miserable Repentance Palate

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Advertising agencies don't care about a better world in the end. They are servants of their client: what the client wants is what they get. Their only problem is to not lose the budget. I think its a shame because advertising is so boring and it can be so interesting. They should ask more artists to make interesting campaigns.”

Thinking World Want Should Ends Problem Care Artist Asks Loses Interesting Shame Don't Care Boring Campaigns Advertising Budgets Servant Agency Clients Advertising Agencies So Boring

Author:Oliviero Toscani

“When you see what goes on in Iraq on a daily basis - more people dying in car bombings - you almost brush it aside after a while. To actually comprehend the human tragedy of these events is overwhelming. We see so many images, but there's always the sense, for Americans, that it's not in our backyard. That's another reason why the war in Bosnia was so fascinating; because it really was in Europe's backyard. It was in Europe. And they didn't do anything about it for years. It took the Americans to end that war, really. That's a shame.”

People Years Humans War Ends Reason Dying Car Events Goes On Europe Bases Tragedy Shame Iraq Reason Why Fascinating Overwhelming Brushes Bombing Backyards Bosnia People Dying

Author:Richard Shepard

“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!"”

“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

“What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.”

Ends Shame Arrogance

Author:Walter Russell Mead

“Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the war. And that's what we set out to do. What was not ended by the anti-war movement was ended by the Vietnamese. That's our shame.”

May Long War Ends Running Streets Movement Tears Shame Gas Throwing Anti War Hippie Vietnamese Anti War Movement

Author:Bill Ayers

“There's so much shame involved in not being like everyone else. But I learned that the things that made me unique were good. Dealing with problems can be awful. But in the end I got positive results. I don't think I would have been a writer if I didn't have anxiety.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Made Ends Problem Results Involved Anxiety Unique Shame Awful Positive Results Dealing With Problems

Author:Jenny Lawson

“That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.”

People World Ends Would Be Able Poverty Worst Shame Hungry Global Poverty

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is senseless and painful, and that by talking about it, I have come to peace with it. The stigma behind people's suffering needs to end. We as a community need to embrace these disorders, try to understand them (if only just to talk about them) so that we can cease being defined by them.”

People Ifs Needs Trying Ends Suffering Community Behinds Talking Shame Embrace Painful Cease Defined Disorder Stigma Instability

Author:Mariel Hemingway

“I wrote [Valley of Violence] entirely with James Ransone in mind. I get such a joy out of watching his performance and seeing people watch this. He's so great. The bravado thing and the foolishness, he does them both so well. It's weird because he's so hateable in the movie, but in the end, you're also going, "I feel bad for him." That's hard to do. It's hard to do that to where you're like, "This guy's the worst, but I know why he's the worst, so it's a shame this is happening." That's the whole thing.”

People Knows Feels Mind Wells Doe Ends Hard Whole Joy Guy Watches Violence Seeing Worst Happenings Performances Shame Valleys Foolishness This Guy Bravado

Author:Ti West

“You are an American, so you're hurt that other American citizens have been hurt, but you end up having to shoulder the shame for something that you don't even believe. There's a lot of years where Muslims have dealt with having to make themselves very small and not disrupt the flow and not - make sure that you're not noticed because, you know, deep down inside people are not really excited that you're around .”

People Knows Years Believe Has Beens Ends Hurt Citizens Flow Shame Excited Shoulders Deep Down American Citizens Been Hurt

Author:Mahershala Ali

“I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.”

Thinking Feels Trying Has Beens Ideas Ends Hate Culture Space Sadness Taught Grew Grew Up Connections Towns Shame Aesthetic Sentimental Promoting

Author:Mike Mills

“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.”

People Thinking Love Trying Two Ends Hard Together Moving Strong Water Forever Too Much Our Lives Letting Go Rivers Shame Currents Holding On Let Me Go Together Forever Never Let Me Go

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”

Way Looks Persons Ends Dies Wish Views Shame Suicide Powerless

Book:Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow

“(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.) (And you are deserving of shame?) (I am. I am trying to tell you.) 'We were stupid,' he said, 'because we believed in things.' 'Why is this stupid?' 'Because there are not things to believe in.' (Love?) (There is no love. Only the end of love.) (Goodness?) (Do not be a fool.) (God?) (If God exists, He is not to be believed in.)”

People Ifs Feels Trying Believe Said Ends Stupid Fool Goodness Shame Ashamed Deserving No Love Closeness God Exists Believe In Love

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does not wail the next, that brings the worst shame to me, the greatest indifference to annihilation. I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering. I ought never to have taken my lantern to see what was going on in the hut by the granary. On the other hand, there was no way, once I had picked up the lantern, for me to put it down again. The knot loops in upon itself; I cannot find the end.”

Knows Way Doe Has Beens Ends Hands Seems Next Taken Too Much Worst Baby Ought One Day Window Shame Indifference Dependent Knots Annihilation Loops Recovering Huts Lanterns

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

“Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.”

Ends Understood Shame Selfishness Cowardice Noli Me Tangere

Author:Jose Rizal

“Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way.”

Way Ends Order Loses Loss Knowing Sadness Intellectual Illusion Shame Tired Uselessness Book Of Disquiet

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.”

Has Beens Ends States Done Simple Deals Pay Mines Regret Fit All Things Shame Here I Am Pay The Price

Book:Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles

Source: Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles

“I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond - the ripples stretch far. Such an act must leave a burden of sorrow, guilt, shame and confusion on an entire family. A natural death, such as my father suffered, is hard enough to deal with. A decision to end one's life must be still more devastating for those left behind. I cannot imagine the degree of hopelessness someone must feel to contemplate such an act.”

“If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us.”

Ifs Believe Ends President Shame Addiction Oil Former Businessman If You Believe

Author:Dan Seals

“...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to which we know that the hand of death is about to put an end.”

Knows Looks Long Ends Hands Age Grief Bears Findings Regard Shame Decline Affliction Duration

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label. I feel that if I was figuratively dropped on the Earth and there was a political line, I would be just left of center. The difference for me is that conservatives are more interested in property values and rights and free markets, and liberals are more interested in human rights. In the end, there are people who don't fit into the marketplace and are not equipped. I believe the government should step in where the free market fails.”

“War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one another. When one comes to an end, the other will end also and one cannot end without the other. The fact that no war has broken out in Europe for fifty years is connected in some mysterious way with the fact that for fifty years no new Picasso has appeared either.”

Way Years Two War Ends Facts Culture Fighting Heaven Hell Broken Glory Europe Shame Connected Mysterious Fifty Heaven And Hell No War Mysterious Ways

Author:Milan Kundera

“I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.”

Ends Lasts Minutes Shame Malls Last Minute Christmas Eve Shoppers

Author:Brad Paisley

“The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community. A boycott is never an end within itself. It is merely a means to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor but the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption.”

Mean Ends Community Violence Creation Shame Redemption Beloved Bitterness Nonviolence Reconciliation Oppressors Aftermath Boycott Beloved Community

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and he's very good at it, but I just can't do it. I'd probably end up punching them in the face rather than shaking their hand, so it's best that I stay out of their way. I can't engage with that level of bullshit. Which is a shame, really, and in a way it would help if I could, but I just can't. I admire the fact that Bono can, and can walk away from it smelling of roses.”

People Ifs Way Want I Can Ends Facts Helping Hands Faces Differences Walks Levels Shame Rose Very Good Admire If I Could Bullshit Shaking Punching

Author:Thom Yorke

“Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," and can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, shame and degradation wrought upon the people of Ireland-yea, wrought by Irishmen upon Irish men and women, without burning to end it, is, in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland.”

Source: Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism

“When you finally embrace the gift of your sexual orientation it IS the end; the end of shame, fear and oppression. You leave the darkness of the closet and begin a life of honesty, authenticity and freedom.”

Ends Darkness Honesty Gay Shame Embrace Authenticity Oppression Closets Orientation Gay Pride

Author:Anthony Venn-Brown

“As a people, we value family, education and success. Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies have demonstrated that even brief periods of hunger can permanently inhibit a child's mental, emotional and physical growth. Kids who are hungry do poorly in school and are unlikely to grow into productive adults. For families, experiencing hunger means living in a world of isolation and shame. Caring citizens must put an end to this disgrace.”

“For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe we will end up being kind. If we shame ourselves, we believe we end up loving ourselves. It has never been true, not for a moment, that shame leads to love. Only love leads to love.”

“We knew we'd be together, we didn't know when, But long distance love, never thought it would end. The feelings never changed until the call came... You were engaged, I was in pain. It was such a shame: the timing, it just wasn't right. So I say, 'Good luck,' and then I say, 'Good night.'”

Knows Long Ends Feelings Pain Together Night Changed Shame Luck Distance Hip Hop Rap Engaged Timing Good Luck Never Change Long Distance Good Night Long Distance Love Distance Love

Author:MURS

“Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!”

“To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it.”

Knows Feels Children Ends Worry Impossible Messages Europe Hatred Shame West Selfishness Contempt Masochism Message Of Hope

Book:Platform: A Novel

Source: Platform: A Novel

“The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had a once in a generation chance to change the world for good, to avert catastrophic climate change. In the end they produced a poor deal full of loopholes big enough to fly Air Force One through.”

“Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.”

Ends Poor Shame Management Awe Lame Anger Management Awe Inspiring

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“As an advocate to end violence against women, I have come to learn that the shame surrounding domestic violence is a barrier to talking about the issue. #‎ PurplePurse provides victims and those who support the cause with information and resources they need to take the necessary actions to break the vicious cycle with confidence.”

“If I had a horse buck with me now, I’m a little disappointed. It’s not the end of the world, but I’m a little disappointed if I couldn’t keep the horse out of trouble, whereas it used to be a source of pride, and now it’s sort of source of shame if I let the horse get lost.”

Ifs World Littles Ends Used Lost Trouble Source Pride Horse Shame Used To Be Disappointed End Of The World Bucks

Author:Buck Brannaman

“For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.”

Ends Shame Companion Repentance Fraud Hype

Author:Charles Simmons

“We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!”

Ends Matter Play Games Politics Lost Nations Pay Cost Shame Oppression Trifling

Book:The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling

Source: The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling

“It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.”

Should Years Ends Enough Shows House Amount Shame Rejection Editors Slips Publishers Bricks Confetti Wheelbarrows

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.”

Book Ends Dark Novel Fire Written Shame Over You Realising Bubbles Cathedrals

Author:Michael Cunningham