Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Bell

Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).

Tori Amos

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.

Ugo Betti

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Veronica Roth

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Samuel Johnson

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

Robert Southey

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

Willard Gaylin

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

W. H. Auden

A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing nothingto increase it; what can the latter do but take to drink and psychoanalysis?

William Congreve

I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

Vin Diesel

I used to feel guilty about owning a console.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who blushes is already guilty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

Jean Chatzky

You won't be caught off guard and you won't feel guilty, because you'll be spending money that you've allocated for the occasion.

Jeff Lindsay

I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.

Jim Carrey

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Jean Racine

There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

Jim Gilmore

You are not guilty of anything until you are charged and tried.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

Iain Banks

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

Horace

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Chris Lilley

I have a massive guilt thing about money.

Gene Weingarten

I am not saying Rubin Carter was guilty. I am saying he was very likely guilty.

Felix Frankfurter

Ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system -- a system in which the state must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.

Cassandra Clare

No one blames her." "That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

Then he called upon his Lord: These are a guilty people.

The 'office spouses' can be more open with each other than they can with their own spouses, and there's no guilt involved.

Mark Thompson

It's a frightening thing. You don't know what's going to happen. You don't know anything will be resolved and you must prove that you are innocent. You are guilty - everyone treats you as if you have stolen all this money from them.

Glen Sather

It was like yelling at your own kid, and you know how guilty you feel after that.

It shows some justice for what's been done to all three children. She's next. I want the same thing for her. She's just as guilty as him.

It's hard to understand, but I can only speculate that the jury compromised. Still, how can you find someone guilty of possessing something and not storing it?

A written plea of not guilty is what we anticipate.

Horace

Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale