Shame Attacks Quotes & Sayings

Homesick we are, and always, for another
And different world. — Vita Sackville-West

She's a smart girl, so she doesn't trust you, but she obviously likes you. — Phil Foglio

I don't care what your excuse is, I don't care what you think God told you to do, if you are in the business of closing children's minds and obliterating their capacity to imagine, and depriving them of a capacity to laugh, then you are a criminal. Maybe not under the law, but under any decent system of morality.
Shame on anyone who brainwashes a child and attacks their individual liberty and deprives them of the freedom that is the very definition of a human being. Shame. — Michael Grant

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery. — Tanith Lee

We were never perfect. There's no such thing as perfect. But it's not to late for us. We can still be good. — Pittacus Lore

A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face. — George R R Martin

You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be? — Stephen Leacock

How had I not noticed her there before? She stuck out like a whore in church. Except in this case it was the direct opposite. She stuck out like an angel in hell. — Tabatha Vargo

Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character! EL — Evinda Lepins

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. — John Le Carre

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns. — Honore De Balzac

That is what makes the Bush regime different: after the attacks of September 11, it dared to demand the right to torture without shame. That left the administration subject to criminal prosecution - a problem it dealt with by changing the laws. — Naomi Klein

Even after all our frailties and failures, Christ Jesus can hardly wait to acknowledge us before the very angels of God. If He is that unashamed of us in all our imperfections, how can we be ashamed of Him, our Redeemer and Deliverer? So don't duck your head in shame under the coffee table. At one time or another, all of us have faced the temptation to shrink away from openly acknowledging Christ. But I've learned one of the best ways to get over our attacks of shame: do it over and over until it loses its intimidation. The more we practice, the easier it gets! — Beth Moore

Rest in peace, friend, — Ender King

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family. — Mel Tillis