Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter McWilliams

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

Veronica Roth

Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time,

Thomas Paine

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

Roger Ebert

Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley... Amarcord seems almost to flow from the camera, as anecdotes will flow from one who has told them often and knows they work. This was the last of his films made for no better reason than Fellini wanted to make it.

Rod Stewart

I carry lots of guilt.

Robin Morgan

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

Sarah Zettel

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.

Sandra Bernhard

For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty.

Rivers Cuomo

I never feel guilty about liking music.

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.

Susan Cheever

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.

Mother Teresa

The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose.

Paula Radcliffe

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!

Peter Eisenman

You cannot live with guilt.

Phil Donahue

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

V. S. Pritchett

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

Usain Bolt

My favorite thing is always wings. That is my guilty pleasure.

Robert A. Heinlein

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

Simon Cowell

So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.

Susan Sontag

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Terry Goodkind

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

Terry Goodkind

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent." -Kahlan