#shame

While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

#countless #effort #fingers #hand #harry

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#characterizes #comfortable #course #cynical #decline

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ashamed #end #immorality #morality #staircase

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#attention #does #his #never #nothing

I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people's treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#am #any #around #believe #certain

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ↗

— Will Rogers

#family #gossip #live #parrot #sell

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#feeling #loves #man #shame #she

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#anything #base #flexible #gained #generous

Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#broke #dead #either #groups #i

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#go #ignorance #into #keeps #makes