Shame you had such low standards for yourself.
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Quotes tagged ‘Shame’
A relationship coming to an end when I wanted it to continue is quite bad, but discovering that other people knew it would be ending long before I did is intolerable.
We shouldn’t tolerate anyone being shamed, humiliated or dehumanized - even the people who bring out our rage.
That anyone could think us a romance nauseated me, while crime and drama seemed overblown.
Who might I have become if this hadn’t been how I’d begun?
So what I mean when I say that it’s different being a woman writer, and particularly a mother who is also a writer, is that I don’t think male authors are physically assaulted by their spouses for gaining a modicum of success.
What almost no one understands is how every level of severity in this diagnosis is underpinned by shame. Which means we don’t “fix it” by cutting people down to size and reminding folks of their inadequacies and smallness. Shame is more likely to be the cause of these behaviors, not the cure.
If you’ve been poor, you know what that feels like. You ashamed all the time. Feels like it’s your fault.
I ain't ashamed, but I wouldn't put it on my gravestone.
You left a child unaccompanied by a guardian or a lawyer with these men in this room, for hours! Shame on you.
— Ava DuVernay, Julian Breece, Sharon Salaam, Aunjanue Ellis, imdb.com
Everyone has bodies, right. It's nothing to be ashamed of.
Gentlemen of the court, there are times that I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race and this is one such occasion.
— Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, Jim Thompson, Col. Dax, Kirk Douglas, imdb.com
At the center of vulnerability, we find shame, fear, grief, anxiety, uncertainty, scarcity, but this also the birthplace of love belong and joy.
In America, no one should die because they can’t afford healthcare.
It is a mark of shame that in the wealthiest country in the world people are dying because they can’t afford lifesaving medicine.
I was completely aware that I’d stolen from a person who had created something. I was paranoid that it would come back to haunt me and there was a hot minute when the internet exploded and everything was digitized when I worried I’d get caught. The shame stopped me from doing it again.
I'm the one who should be ashamed. I don't understand my own soul.
— Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Woodcutter, Takashi Shimura, imdb.com
Rango: Us reptiles gotta stick together. Right, my brother? Buford: I'm an amphibian. Rango: Ain't no shame in that.
— John Logan, Gore Verbinski, James Ward Byrkit, Rango (voice), Johnny Depp, imdb.com
All you have to be is a human being. That’s success. When you’re a human being, life feels satisfying.
it’s such a shame that you will finally have to learn that there are consequences to treating women like they’re nothing.