Dirty Shame Quotes

#1. You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.

David Edwards

#2. The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

David Edwards

#3. Because the number one feeling that was waiting to pummel me over the head was damned, dirty shame.

Karina Halle

#4. This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.

Jay Sekulow

#5. We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed.

Whitney Johnson

#6. I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and there's a lot to draw on there.

Meghan Ory

#7. We die with the dying;
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them.

T. S. Eliot

#8. So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me
the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved.

Jessica Sorensen

#9. The Water said to the dirty one, "Come here."
The dirty one said, "I am too ashamed."
The water replied, "How will your shame be washed away without me?

Rumi

#10. My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

Chanakya

#11. Death. I've taunted it for years with confidence and courage. It has taken years for me to realize that it wasn't courage at all, it was the complete opposite; weakness. Bad habits and vulgar sensibilities are my disease. The only cure is dignity and shame, how tragic that I seem lack both.

J.C. Wickhart

#12. And everyone who teaches about slavery knows a little dirty secret that reveals historians' collective failure: many African-American students struggle with a sense of shame that most of their ancestors could not escape the suffering they experienced.

Edward E. Baptist

#13. And she said we all had to find God inside ourselves, in the things we loved most.

Ellen Wittlinger

#14. We do not understand much of anything, from ... the "big bang" , all the way down to the particles in the atoms of a bacterial cell. We have a wilderness of mystery to make our way through in the centuries ahead.

Lewis Thomas

#15. It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

Truman Capote

#16. Erika glides down into the warmth, the body-warm brook of shame, a bath in which one submerges cautiously because the water is rather dirty.

Elfriede Jelinek

#17. The engine of capitalist patriarchy runs on the dirty fuel of women's shame.

Laurie Penny

#18. To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

Tom Spanbauer

#19. Even the most complicated and the most profound message can be given in a simplest way! Be like a light beam entering into a dark sanctuary: Be clear, be pure, and be simple!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. It wasn't until that moment I knew three things. One, I was definitely going to work tomorrow. Two, I was a total douche bag for what I was about to do. Three, the plan would be placed into action as soon as possible.

Sadie Grubor

#21. We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.

Sophocles

#22. Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.

Richard P. Feynman

#23. Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. People are born into this world with the freedom of choice and, surely, given the right mindset, this divinely endowed gift can grant them the power to acquire anything they desire.

Effrosyni Moschoudi

#25. There's no shame with Park. Nothing is dirty. Because Park is the sun, and that's the best way she could think to explain it.

Rainbow Rowell

#26. Marriage is a journey of disasters, only to fall in love all over again, with the person that rescues you each time.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. Protective coloration ... you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box the world prescribed; it was far to small to hold me. So I knocked down a few walls.

Bruce Coville