#shame

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless. ↗

— Frank Lautenberg

#cannot #i #i have learned #learned #my time

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#acquainted #anniversary #attending #australia #children

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

I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

#am #came #context #country #demands

I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#ashamed #bad #doubt #else #i

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

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame. ↗

— Tenzing Norgay

#i #live #man #mount #mount everest

It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#anything #bit #california #city #demolished

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves. ↗

— Marie Osmond

#babies #because #cause #did #fault

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ↗

— Plato

#conquer #conquered #first #greatest #most