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Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace.
Sep 10, 2025
The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.
A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough"(72).
The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races.
His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.
He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.
This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Call no man happy until he is dead.
Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.
It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power
A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they shall have it; if disgrace be good, they shall have it; if crosses be good, they shall have them; if misery be good, they shall have it; for all is ours, to serve for our greatest good.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.
Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.
The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially stressed households and that will come at a very high cost to the US taxpayer. And the plan does nothing to resolve the severe stress in money markets and interbank markets that are now close to a systemic meltdown.
Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.
If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.
I shall not rest until Leeds United are kicked out of the football league. Their fans are the scum of the earth, absolute animals and a disgrace. I will do everything in my power to make sure this happens.
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint.