#shame

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. ↗

— John Leonard

#bad #bad times #boldness #cellars #hand

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#black-and-white #day #go #great #i

The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#me #revolts #shameful

A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#feel #lot #weak #women

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. ↗

— Phaedrus

#believed #detected #even #ever #ever after

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#calls #immoral #own #shame #show

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid. ↗

— Robin G. Collingwood

#always #ashamed #being #being afraid #bottom

My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame. ↗

— Henry Constable

#blush #her #lady #lips #makes

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#ashamed #blushes #guilty #innocence #nothing

We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#around #away #being #came #drew