#shame

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#ashamed #cold #cold war #contemporary #contemporary history

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#her #herself #husband #influence #ought

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly. ↗

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

#chess #face #play #shame

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#because #bigger #different #every #find

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#getting #killed #misfortunes #much #off

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian. ↗

— Robert Towne

#attracted #been #being #culture #ethnic

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

#few #infancy #paltry #secrets #shame

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. ↗

— Izaak Walton

#ashamed #does #friends #i #i love

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#enough #flag #innocent #innocent people #killing

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#blake #day #engulfed #husband #i