#guilt

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#guilt #supreme #time #waste #waste of time

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#away #betray #charm #finds #folly

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#beautiful words #english #english language #guilty #language

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong. ↗

— John Grisham

#because #been #criminal #death #defendants

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines? ↗

— William Hague

#catch #designed #guilty #headlines #law

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#backs #conscience #continuously #doing #even

When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire. ↗

— Angie Harmon

#bottle #consolation #cure #deal #doing

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself. ↗

— Teri Hatcher

#blame #dealing #denial #did #guilt

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#build #call #estate #foundation #ground

And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#angeles #being #down #go #going