Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brooks Atkinson

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

Sherri Shepherd

I had a lot of guilt as a single mother trying to raise a child. I had to go to work and Jeffrey was screaming that he didn't want me to. You have to give yourself permission to let go of the guilt.

Brent Weeks

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

Janet Reno

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

John Grisham

We didn't want to leave. You feel guilty because you can hop on a plane and come back home where everything works and everything is standing,

Ayn Rand

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

Ayn Rand

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

Ayn Rand

We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

Ayn Rand

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Ayn Rand

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Gideon Gono

We are a guilty party from a technical point of view.

Michael Grimm

What I'm guilty of is trying the hardest and giving 100 percent of myself and putting my heart and soul into representing the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn.

When they read the first part (of the verdict), I just bawled. I was so happy. The guilty verdict means so much to me.

Carl Jung

Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.

He was factually guilty of intentional homicide, but from the beginning, he's had remorse.

We're positive he was going to be not guilty because we know our family.

Paul Hartman

I am just as guilty as you, ... I didn't do that (which I had promised).

He who spares the guilty threatens the innocent

My understanding was that he was to plead guilty this afternoon.

James Norton

If it's a sunny day, I get this weird guilt if I'm not making the most of it, so I'll walk or go for a swim or get on my bike, or I'll go to the Heath, just have a reason to get out.

Abraham Verghese

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Alison Goldfrapp

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

Alison Lurie

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

Ann Landers

guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.

Andy Dick

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

Damien Rice

They wanted to 'radiofy' what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger and maybe it is because I am Irish but there was a guilt factor when the record company pays you a lot of money, you feel obliged.

e. e. cummings

guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

Abraham Maslow

What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.

Anne Spencer

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Anne Rice

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

Andrew Fastow

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.