Eugene Ormandy Quotes

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

I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.

I should have done more. I did too little of everything.

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. 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.

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.

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.

What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

Men's common guise is always to lay the burden on some other back.

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

Having a writer in the family is a curse - for the family. I do feel more or less guilty when I'm writing.

I felt terrible when I went to Roma because I hadn't fulfilled the expectations of the Florentines.

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.

Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.

We are all guilty of the good we did not do

I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.

And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.

To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.

You know, I could have carried you.

How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.