I wanted to hit Bill Cosby, I wanted to punch Bill Cosby in the face. I felt anger, was humiliated, disgusted, ashamed. – Janice Dickinson Former US model to courtroom in Pennsylvania, where she alleged the comedian drugged and raped her in hotel room in 1982.
‘A warrior will sooner die than live a life of shame.’ – Beowulf, Seamus Heaney (trans.) Lines 2890-2891: Wiglar has stern words for the soldiers who had run away from the fight with the dragon.
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one… – William Cowper
Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!. – Johann Most
It’s a shame to call somebody a ‘diva’ simply because they work harder than everybody else. – Jennifer Lopez
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. – John Updike
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon. – Jock Sturges
What is a shame is that there isn’t stuff that is as great as ‘Oz’ on a consistent level around today. – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary. – Brene Brown
We’re all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas. – Deborah Eisenberg
Well it’s because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it’s a shame. – Marian McPartland
Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; For you will forget the shame of your youth, And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore. – The Bible Isaiah 54:4
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. – Charles Simmons
I don’t think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame. – Michael C. Hall
To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don’t read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going. – Nick Cave