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Quotes About Disgraced

Shame is the deep sense that you are unacceptable because of something you did, something done to you, or something associated with you. You feel exposed and humiliated. Or, to strengthen the language, You are disgraced because you acted less than human, you were treated as if you were less than human, or you were associated with something less than human, and there are witnesses.
~ Edward T. Welch
Let me know that into the knot of self comes the thread called time, and that what I am, disgraced or blessed, came from what I was, goes to what I yet may be.
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam.
~ Aasif Mandvi
I, I count myself the son of Chance, the great goddess, giver of all good things— I'll never see myself disgraced.
~ Sophocles
When you see an article it always has 'disgraced NBA referee.' It's embarrassing and it's never going to be okay. Unfortunately, I have to move forward and just make things different moving forward.
~ Tim Donaghy
If you are birthed into a particular paradigm that serves you, what would compel you to look outside? The mind is a seductive labyrinth camouflaging a cage. An apologist is a traitor of the highest order. For what is sadism but tenderness disgraced?
~ Eve Ensler
You told your mother." "Of course I did. You're not some shameful secret I'm going to hide." "No, I'm a disgraced exile who had the audacity to turn down the most beloved son of House Krahr." He considered it. "Not the most beloved. My cousin is much more adorable than me. He is two and his hair is curly.
~ Ilona Andrews
I am disgrac'd, impeach'd and baffled here, - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.
~ William Shakespeare
He's like one of these old guys from a disgraced presidential administration, forced out by scandal, who devotes the rest of his life to finding people who will listen to him.
~ Neal Stephenson
Never underestimate the power of a poet, even a disgraced one.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Thus," said she, "shall be treated the deceiver, the traitor, the faithless, the disgraced, and the beardless.
~ Thomas Bulfinch
and I set it on the night table. I feared for Clete. I was protected by the culture of law enforcement, one that is ferociously tribal in nature. Clete was a disgraced cop, a lone soul sowing destruction and chaos everywhere he went, and hated by the Mob and NOPD. I felt his eyes on the side of my face.
~ James Lee Burke
Pet Girl's address indicated that her apartment was in the picturesque and cheapest part of the former barracks, a long walk from where we stood. And what got to me instantly was that Norma Johnson's home was within viewing distance of Sea Cliff, where she'd gone to the Burke School—and where she'd been disgraced.
~ James Patterson
later disgraced Vice President Spiro Agnew. "In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4H club—the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
~ Harold Evans
I've been utterly and completely castigated from time to time.
~ Diana Rigg
But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them. Viola: Thy reason, man? Feste: Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.
~ William Shakespeare
I do not think I would make a fit wife either. Not that my door is battered down. Apparently the market for disgraced sorceresses is thin.
~ Madeline Miller
They left the park by a side gate where a statue of a disgraced politician stood with its head hidden in a linen bag.
~ Olivia Manning