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“You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it. It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges. From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.”

Ifs Fighting Sides Challenges Lines Battle Draws Shame Debate Criticize Quran

Author:Jeffrey Lang

“But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.”

May Running Reading Sides Path Depends Concern Shame Shining Misery

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.”

Stories Sides Shame Illness Opening Thread Trivia

Book:What Her Body Thought: A Journey Into the Shadows

Source: What Her Body Thought: A Journey Into the Shadows

“Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.”

Two Sides Crime Shame Guilt Committed Nasty Grim Stigma Coalitions Triangles

Author:Germaine Greer

“I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, "God, they don't paint behind the sets." It's a bit of a shame, really - "Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood." I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.”

Thinking Kind Real Kids Remember Bits Sides Acting Behinds Wall Shame Paint Disappointed Thinking God

Author:Andy Serkis

“There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.”

Ifs Made War Whole Found Nations Sides Willing Shame Slavery West South East Empires Conspiracy East And West North And South

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“...how little our side of the industry did to move its business to the more ethical firms and to make a fuss about conflicted or unethical behavior. Had a number of us moved our business, we might have slowed or even stopped the 30-year slide in conflicted, unethical behavior that we have experienced. I, for one, regret the modest nature of our moves. We all could have done more. We have tolerated a pretty nasty decline in standards. Shame on us.”

Years Littles Done Might Moving Sides Numbers Regret Industry Behavior Standards Shame Moved Firm Ethical Decline Nasty Modest Slides Unethical

Author:Jeremy Grantham

“There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance to, so some DJs started to use old disco records, but the B-sides and the acapellas, and we began producing beats with drum machines.”

Use Sides Music Records Movement Beats Machines Shame Djs Disco

Author:David Guetta

“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

“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

“There's a level of shame attached to our history, and we need to replace that shame with pride and own our history. These are our superheroes. These are our people, and I would love to see us own this side of our history with pride.”

People Needs Sides Levels Pride Shame Superhero

Author:Jurnee Smollett

“Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to gaurd us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognize our innocence, and God waits ony a speration of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward.”

Ifs Men World Earth Pain Spirit Waiting Sides Race Watches Dying Angel Hatred Shame Rewards Flesh Invisible Kingdoms Innocence Torture Crowns Scorn Crushed

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.”

Done Might Beautiful Sides Natural Battle Shame Guilt Conviction Inevitable

Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.”

World Way Desire Felt Sides Meditation Anxiety Let Me Shame Response Flesh Best Way Confusion Phrases Anxious

Book:Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught

Source: Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught

“...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.”

Men Needs Long Found Sides Return Findings Shame Bottom Edges Climbs Valleys Slopes Precipice Ulysses

Author:Alistair Maclean

“It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides.”

Ifs Sides Loses Football Shame Soccer Both Sides Commentators Funny Soccer

Author:Jock Brown