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What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?


William Gaddis


#around #artist #done #dregs #expect

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.


Jean Genet


#away #been #breeze #carrying #centuries

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.


John Gielgud


#exhibiting #forget #glory #half #shame

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.


John Dryden


#breaking #down #perseveres #shame #spirit

When I can afford it, I'm very into organic food and I love going to restaurants that use organic produce and such. I think that it's a shame for everyone that, unfortunately, organic can be pretty expensive, so you just do what you can.


Sprague Grayden


#everyone #expensive #food #going #i

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.


William Harvey


#born #charm #die #eagles #fly

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.


Hesiod


#confidence #either #false #greatly #harms

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.


Thomas Hobbes


#blame #clean #grave #holy #light

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.


Michael M. Honda


#awareness #chapter #ever #history #more

President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame.


Glenn Hubbard


#attempt #avoided #basically #been #crisis