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“The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: "Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor. Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone!. What is Silence? It is the Great Mystery! The Holy Silence is His voice!”

“We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.”

Feels Humans Made Reality Eye Earth Faces Hurt Behinds Conditions Weak Angry Painful Exposed Human Condition Wounded Flawed Face To Face Shameful Expressive Bearable Human Eyes

Author:Alice Walker

“How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.”

Thinking Years Heart Persons Stills Pain Lying Next Blood Hair Bed Years Ago Breaths Blue Rounds Betrayal Flesh Tied Ache Shameful Fingertips

Author:Carolyn Parkhurst

“Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken.”

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Author:Rob Bell

“It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.”

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Book:Sing You Home: A Novel

Source: Sing You Home: A Novel

“I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal into their hearts, I scrutinize their most fundamental beliefs, I scan their irrational impulses, their unspeakable emotions, I sleep in their lungs during the summer and their muscles during the winter, and all of this I do without the least effort, without intending to, without asking or seeking it out, without constraints, driven only by love and devotion.”

“The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all. No one escapes. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.”

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Author:Ingmar Bergman

“They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.”

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Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.”

Conditions Emptiness Strongest Shameful Gateways Tender Is The Night

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.”

Thinking Dresses Feminist Ashamed Shameful

Author:Iggy Pop

“Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?”

Men Feels Humans Responsibility Arguing Disaster Dust Alternatives Crave Shameful Specks Culpability

Author:Julie Orringer

“Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.”

Reality Frightening Shameful Craziness

Book:Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.”

Ifs Should Soul Sin Flesh Cures Physicians Shameful Malady Sins Of The Flesh

Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“Most of my friends are into strange things I don't really understand - and with a few shameful exceptions I wish them all well. Who am I, after all, to tell some friend he shouldn't change his name to Oliver High, get rid of his family, and join a Satanism cult in Seattle? Or to argue with another friend who wants to buy a single-shot Remington Fireball so he can go out and shoot cops from a safe distance?”

Want Wells Names Wish Strange Safe Shots My Friends Distance Arguing Exception Cop Cult Shameful Strange Things Seattle Satanism Remington

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.”

Source: The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World

“You said to me once that you weren’t what I dreamed of. You were right. You surpass everything I dreamed of. Even the rot in you that’s caused you to do shameful things. Some men let the rot and guilt fester into something ugly beyond words. Few men can turn it into worth and substance. If you’re gods’ blessed for no other reason, it’s for that.”

Ifs Men Said Reason Turns Blessed Guilt Ugly Substance Shameful

Author:Melina Marchetta

“That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.”

Thinking Should Conversation Quitting Trifles Shameful Presence Of God God's Presence Foolery

Book:The Practice of the Presence of God and Spiritual Maxims

Source: The Practice of the Presence of God and Spiritual Maxims

“I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.”

Knows Remember Process Forget Dying Needed Decided Shameful

Book:Looking for Alaska

Source: Looking for Alaska

“Nothing was dirty. With Park. Nothing could be shameful. Because Park was the sun, and that was the only way Eleanor could think to explain it.”

Thinking Way Sun Dirty Parks Shameful Eleanor

Book:The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On

Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On

“He loved me. He'd loved me as long as he he'd known me! I hadn't loved him as long perhaps, but now I loved him equally well, or better. I loved his laugh, his handwriting, his steady gaze, his honorableness, his freckles, his appreciation of my jokes, his hands, his determination that I should know the worst of him. And, most of all, shameful though it might be, I loved his love for me.”

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Author:Gail Carson Levine

“It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you.”

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Author:Marcus Aurelius

“This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life. So to actually make a new No. 1 is spectacularly stupid.”

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Author:Russell Crowe

“...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.”

“The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.”

Men Has Beens Stills Ideas Whole Lasts Alive Progress Mankind Century He Man Dignity Extremes Denial Curse Fancy Swings Cult Shocking Shameful Pendulums

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.”

Inspirational Stills Soul Body Attitude Perseverance Persevere Shameful

Book:The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives in poverty. Do not say, "I am the son of a rich man. It is shameful for me to be in poverty." Christ, your Heavenly Father, Who gave birth to you in the baptistery, is not in worldly riches. Rather he walked in poverty and had nowhere to lay His head.”

“There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”

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Author:George Farquhar

“Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?”

Men Done Past Nations Worst Food Civilization Cooking Alcohol Culinary Nevertheless Shameful Cocktails Martini Bourbon Rum

Book:The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto

Source: The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto

“The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.”

Men Said Stills Soul Speak Voice Poor Poverty Cases Distance Hunger Pity Irony Feds They Said Shameful Poor Man Charitable Zola

Author:Albert Camus

“We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.”

Shame Guilt Guilty Shameful

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.”

Belief Heaven Opinion Engines Ruling Public Opinion Shameful Steam

Book:Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life

Source: Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life

“Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the habeas corpus law have been worthy of that suspension. They have been either real treasons, wherein the parties might as well have been charged at once, or sham plots, where it was shameful they should ever have been suspected. Yet for the few cases wherein the suspension of the habeas corpus has done real good, that operation is now become habitual and the minds of the nation almost prepared to live under its constant suspension.”

Source: Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers

“A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.”

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Book:The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

“Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.”

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Author:Edward Dahlberg

“We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.”

“Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must regard their losses as lessons and learn from them what sorts of things to avoid in the future.”

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Author:Jose Raul Capablanca

“Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong.”

Men Love Heart Different Eye Song Vision Special Unique Ears Shameful Troubled Heart

Book:The Bad Place

Source: The Bad Place

“I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.”

Thinking Wells Felt Known Figures Regret Needed Well Known Shameful I Regret

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”

“And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.”

School Teacher Conditions Safety Public School Shameful Disparity Private School Beatty Workplace Safety

Author:Warren Beatty

“If there is electricity in every village, people will watch TV till late night and then fall asleep. They won’t get a chance to produce children. When there is no electricity, there is nothing else to do but produce babies.”

People Ifs Children Night Fall Chance Watches Produce Tvs Baby Late Village Electricity Shameful Late Night

Author:Ghulam Nabi Azad

“Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down.”

Wall Shameful Exclusion Tumbling Tumbling Down

Book:Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches

Source: Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches

“When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.”

Feels Persons Like You Easier Acknowledge About Yourself Shameful Unforgivable

Author:John Green

“The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may rise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning. The reverse also happens; and very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions.”

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Author:Edmund Burke

“Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.”

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Author:Plato

“Even if their child is useless, parents will not find them shameful. But if you're an outstanding child, you don't have the right to find your parents shameful.”

Ifs Children Parent Drama Useless Outstanding Shameful

Author:Seo Won

“To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”

All Things Philosophical Shameful Greatest Victory

Author:Plato

“To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Wells May Happens Death Evil Fear Wise Dying Ignorance My Friends Fear Of Death Being Wise Shameful Do Not Fear Death

Author:Socrates

“Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.”

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Author:Plato

“Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others witness their criminal behavior. Such behavior may not be dealt with by courts in history, but will be dealt with by God, either in history (e.g., AIDS) or eternity. The law that requires the death penalty for homosexual acts effectually drives the perversion of homosexuality underground, back to the closet, to the dark realm of shameful activity.”