#shame

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds. ↗

— Sophocles

#shameful #taught

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#begun #ends #shame #whatever

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

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#considered #deaths #demeaning #diseases #easy

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. ↗

— George Soros

#condition #correct #failing #human #human condition

Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money. ↗

— James Spader

#also #always #approached #because #certain

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

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems. ↗

— Dan Savage

#less #many #out #people #problems

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#ashamed #because #had #i #i am

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. ↗

— Fred Woodworth

#civilians #combat #get #healthy #healthy way