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Shamefaced Quotes By Thomas Daniel Nehrer

New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth. — Thomas Daniel Nehrer

Shamefaced Quotes By Lynn Redgrave

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram. — Lynn Redgrave

Shamefaced Quotes By Kat Martin

Another hour of strained silence passed. Hawk left to speak with an aquaintance in another car.
"Would you like to tell me about it?" James offered as soon as his friend was out of earshot.
Mandy looked out the window, shamefaced. "I'd really rather not discuss it, if you don't mind."
"You know, even if he is a friend, I'd be happy to black his eye if-"
"No!"
"Whatever you say." He sighed resignedly, leaning back against the tapestry seats. — Kat Martin

Shamefaced Quotes By Danny Wallace

I lay, shamefaced and embarrassed, in my bed. Which is a deeply unusual place for me to feel shamefaced and embarrassed, and anyone who says otherwise is a bloody liar. — Danny Wallace

Shamefaced Quotes By Sharyn McCrumb

A man is always a little shamefaced on his wedding day, like a fox caught in a baited trap, ensnared because his greed overcame his better judgment. The menfolk laughed at Charlie that spring day, and said he was caught for sure now. As the bride, I was praised and fussed over, as if I had won a prize or done something marvelous that no one ever did before, and I could not help feeling pleased and clever that I had managed to turn myself from an ordinary girl into a shining bride. Now I think it is a dirty lie. The man is the one who is winning the game that day, though they always pretend they are not, and the poor girl bride is led into a trap of hard work and harsh words, the ripping of childbirth and the drubbing of her man's fists. It is the end of being young, but no one tells her so. Instead they make over her, and tell her how lucky she is. I wonder do slaves get dressed up in finery on the day they are sold. — Sharyn McCrumb

Shamefaced Quotes By James Baldwin

Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or uncles, and only leave the house to go to the movies or to the nearest bar. "How're you making it?" on may ask, running into them along the block, or in the bar. "Oh, I'm TV-ing it"; with the saddest, sweetest, most shamefaced of smiles, and from a great distance. This distance one is compelled to respect; anyone who has traveled so far will not easily be dragged again into the world. There are further retreats, of course, than the TV screen or the bar. There are those who are simply sitting on their stoops, "stoned," animated for a moment only, and hideously, by the approach of someone who may lend them the money for a "fix." Or by the approach of someone from whom they can purchase it, one of the shrewd ones, on the way to prison or just coming out. — James Baldwin

Shamefaced Quotes By Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Shamefaced Quotes By Rae Carson

No, no." I motion vaguely. "Relax. Don't look so ... guardlike." They drop formation at once, glancing at one another shamefaced. Hector draped an arm around my shoulder as if we were out for a companionable stroll. He leans down and says, "So. Horrible heat we've been having lately. — Rae Carson

Shamefaced Quotes By Shirley Chisholm

The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians. — Shirley Chisholm

Shamefaced Quotes By William Shakespeare

Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles. — William Shakespeare

Shamefaced Quotes By Charles Giancarlo

It's always a challenge whenever you have to nurture more than one culture inside an organization. When I say culture, you have one group that will have one set of priorities, and another with another set. It creates a different cultural environment. — Charles Giancarlo

Shamefaced Quotes By Jasper Rees

The horn . . . is the joint hardest instrument to learn. . . . (The other is the oboe). — Jasper Rees

Shamefaced Quotes By Catherynne M Valente

The tyrannosaurus looked a little shamefaced - but only a little, for dinosaurs would rather drown in tar than admit they're wrong. That unfortunate attitude played a key role in their extinction. — Catherynne M Valente

Shamefaced Quotes By Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

Perjury is often bold and open. It is truth that is shamefaced - as, indeed, in many cases is no more than decent. — Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

Shamefaced Quotes By Terry Pratchett

Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more then Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind. — Terry Pratchett

Shamefaced Quotes By Melina Marchetta

He's my father!" she bellowed, pointing to Trevanion.
"Vestie!" Beatriss said firmly, stopping to stare up at her. "I'll snip at the tongue if I ever see it in such a way again! Trevanion, speak to her."
Vestie hung her head, shamefaced.
"Vestie," he said, his voice still gentle.
"Yes, Father."
"Shout it out louder, my love. Shout it out louder. — Melina Marchetta

Shamefaced Quotes By William Shakespeare

I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shamefaced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it. — William Shakespeare

Shamefaced Quotes By Margaret Deland

Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions ... — Margaret Deland

Shamefaced Quotes By Don Mattingly

Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana. — Don Mattingly

Shamefaced Quotes By Franz Kafka

One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it. — Franz Kafka

Shamefaced Quotes By Hozier

The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love. — Hozier

Shamefaced Quotes By A.J. Liebling

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience. — A.J. Liebling

Shamefaced Quotes By L.A. Meyer

The pants come down. Most look shamefaced, but tha Arthur McBride is not the least bit shy about showing off his equipment, oh no, he isn't. He grins in my direction. 'Not all that impressive, boyo — L.A. Meyer

Shamefaced Quotes By Alice Walker

Shug say, What, too shamefaced to put singing and dancing and fucking together? She laugh. That's the reason they call what us sing the devil's music. Devils love to fuck. — Alice Walker

Shamefaced Quotes By Henry L. Stimson

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such. — Henry L. Stimson

Shamefaced Quotes By Julia Stiles

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety. — Julia Stiles

Shamefaced Quotes By Ashlyn Kane

You know, people always look at that headline as me being "outed," but you can ask anyone, I couldn't even find a closet with a map! — Ashlyn Kane

Shamefaced Quotes By Edith Wharton

She knew that Virginia's survey of the world was limited to people, the clothes they wore, and the carriages they drove in. Her own universe was so crammed to bursting with wonderful sights and sounds that, in spite of her sense of Virginia's superiority - her beauty, her ease, her confidence - Nan sometimes felt a shamefaced pity for her. — Edith Wharton

Shamefaced Quotes By Louise Bogan

In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart. — Louise Bogan

Shamefaced Quotes By Simone De Beauvoir

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning." — Simone De Beauvoir

Shamefaced Quotes By Tom Hanks

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week. — Tom Hanks

Shamefaced Quotes By Tanya Tucker

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes. — Tanya Tucker

Shamefaced Quotes By Frederick Buechner

I AM RAPHAEL, ONE OF THE SEVEN ARCHANGELS WHO PASS IN and out of the presence of the Holy One, blessed be he. I bring him the prayers of all who pray and of those who don't even know that they're praying. Some prayers I hold out as far from me as my arm will reach, the way a woman holds a dead mouse by the tail when she removes it from the kitchen. Some, like flowers, are almost too beautiful to touch, and others so aflame that I'd be afraid of their setting me on fire if I weren't already more like fire than I am like anything else. There are prayers of such power that you might almost say they carry me rather than the other way round - the way a bird with outstretched wings is carried higher and higher on the back of the wind. There are prayers so apologetic and shamefaced and halfhearted that they all but melt away in my grasp like sad little flakes of snow. Some prayers are very boring. — Frederick Buechner

Shamefaced Quotes By Homer

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar. — Homer

Shamefaced Quotes By P.B. Kerr

Sometimes human nature can leave you looking just a little shamefaced. — P.B. Kerr

Shamefaced Quotes By Donald Hall

Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops, dreamed marvels of canning ... and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced, I planted no garden at all. — Donald Hall

Shamefaced Quotes By Alexander McCall Smith

... reunions, she felt, were not much more than a scratching at the vague itch of memory. And like scratching, they rarely helped - indeed, scratching often made matters worse, as any dermatologist would tell you. — Alexander McCall Smith

Shamefaced Quotes By Austin Kleon

Forget about being an expert or a professional, and wear your amateurism (your heart, your love) on your sleeve. Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you. — Austin Kleon