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“General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.”

Ifs Littles Made Care Loss Rooms Greater Shame Stores Observation Severe Jewels Caution Scrutiny Counterfeit Comprehending

Book:An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

Source: An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

“On one hand, prostitutes don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life. In Bangladesh it's different because they live in the brothel, it's sort of a prison, but still there are two sides. When they think of their religion and their upbringing, they can be very moralistic. They're moralistic about giving blow jobs. On the other hand, they have an everyday life where there's no room for shame.”

Thinking Giving Stills Two Different Hands Jobs Sides Rooms Struggle Shame Prison Everyday Blow Squares Mexico Elsewhere Everyday Life Upbringing Two Sides Bangladesh Brothels Blow Job

Author:Michael Glawogger

“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.”

Ifs Way Said Country Lost Parent Rooms Successful Too Much Right Now Sitting Built Decided Shame Strive Sentences Ass Loser Hug Humiliation One Love Choke Trophies Lost You

Author:Christopher Titus

“I may have disparaged the idea that people are looking at films on smaller and smaller screens... it's a shame that people have to watch DVDs with the lights on in a television-type situation where people are wandering in and out of the room. Movies are different from television, and you cannot watch movies like television. It distorts it.”

People May Ideas Different Light Film Rooms Situation Watches Television Type Shame Screens Wander Dvds Watch Movie

Author:Oliver Stone

“Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me.”

Looks Hard Light Lying Mother Rooms Terrible Shame Backgrounds Teeth Classic Falsehood Cursed Uncouth

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“We are all freaks. Yes! Alone in our rooms at night, we are all weirdoes and outcasts and losers. That is what being a teenager is all about! Whether you admit it or not, you are all worried that the others won’t accept you, that if they knew the real you, they would recoil in horror. Each of us carries with us a secret shame that we think is somehow unique…And if we are, each of us, freaks – then can’t we accept what’s different in each other and move on?”

Ifs Thinking Different Real Moving Night Rooms Secret Accepting Horror Unique Shame Teenager Worried Carrie Loser Freak Outcast Real You Recoil Being A Teenager

Author:James St. James

“Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.”

Source: Gitanjali - Song Offerings

“I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.”

Feels Littles Made Stills Real Light Night Found Grows Fear Memories Dark Rooms Happened Weight Stronger Shame Details Stuck Made It Remembered Nightmare Chests Fades Dark Room

Author:Sarah Dessen

“The baby woke up before you did. I took him to the other room to let you get a little more sleep. We've been watching a game." "Did he cry?" "Only when he realized the Astros were having another first-round play-off flame out. But I told him there's no shame in crying over the Astros. It's how we Houston guys bond.”

Firsts Littles Play Guy Games Sleep Rooms Cry Baby Shame Rounds Flames Houston

Book:Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.”

Thinking World Seems Left Rooms Paper Shame Blue Plates Elegance

Author:Joan Fontaine

“When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.”

People Ifs Should Happens Easy Rooms Mistake Shame Blame Arise Repeats Senior Mantras Mistakes Happen

Book:The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Source: The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

“You see it is important to understand how damaged people don't always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It's a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of feeling something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red As on our chests.”

People Knows Way Believe Important Feelings Bigs Rooms Know How Fronts Deserve Red Shame Admire Chests Big Things

Book:The Chronology of Water: A Memoir

Source: The Chronology of Water: A Memoir

“And above all, I will argue the necessity for preserving, against all shame, a demanding question of revolution itself, a question about utopia that keeps pushing its way through a field of failed aspirations, like a student at the back of the room who gets suddenly, violently, tired of being invisible.”

Way Rooms Fields Students Revolution Shame Tired Arguing Invisible Aspiration Pushing Utopia

Author:Lauren Berlant