“I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that's not cool. But in the real world, there's no shame in that at all.” WorldRealOffersShameReal World Author:Phil Collins
“Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.” KnowsShowsTogetherLyingDiesStarsPrinciplesGroupsAtheismMankindPrayingFitOffersShameIllPositive AtheismContemptSincerityVirginsI PraySeriousnessMaidsBarrenImpunityCometsScandalousMiscarriageOld Maids Author:Pierre Bayle
“God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.” IfsGivingShouldStillsChristianAsksPrayerRichFailingReadyPrayingPromiseOffersShameTreasureExcellentSevereChastisementSlothfulnessUpbraid Book:Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year Source: Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year
“Anger can offer a sense of indignity to replace a sense of shame, and offer a voice-raised above others-which can finally be heard. Those voices are most effective when they are raised in unison, when they have mercy as well as anger behind them, and when, instead of roaring at the anger of old pain, they sing about the glorious possibilities of a future where anger has a smaller house than hope.” WellsPainHouseVoiceBehindsHeardPossibilityOffersMercyAngerShameRaisedGloriousRoaringIndignityUnison Author:Gina Barreca
“There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.” IfsLifeLyingGoalGraceHonestyOffersGloryShameDestructiveDishonesty Author:M.J. Rose
“Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.” PeopleNeedsGivingMeanAsksOffersShameWickedNo LoveMean People Author:George Bernard Shaw
“You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off all conventional restraints and devoted herself without shame to the pleasure of the moment." I asked for particulars of this uncharacteristic conduct. "She took from her handbag a paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice and sat on the sofa reading it, declining all offers of conversation.” MomentsReadingPleasureEffectsPrideDrugOffersConversationPrejudiceShameCastsSatRemarkableQuantityDevotedConventionalModestRestraintSofasHandbags Author:Sarah Caudwell