#sham

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles. ↗

— Frank Dobson

#patients #present #protecting #shambles #system

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race. ↗

— Blake Edwards

#exploit #human #human race #invented #order

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

— George Farquhar

#crime #like #nor #poverty #rags

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive. ↗

— Brené Brown

#listening #shame #speaking #courage

I don't get to go home as much as I used to, which is a shame. But I don't mind because my mum moved over to London to look after me. I rented her a house just around the corner. ↗

— Niall Horan

#around #because #corner #get #go

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fables #lies #more #nothing #self

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#cornered #homosexual #i #market #morticians

The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#basic #failures #keep #made #makes

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal. ↗

— Sue Johanson

#ashamed #embarrassed #experiences #feel #glorious

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. ↗

— Stephen King

#because #brought #diminish #feelings #get