Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

Guilt is never very far from Rick Grimes' shoulder. It comes with the package. He's a man who takes his responsibilities very heavily, not lightly.

Guilt is an emotion that is never very far away from Rick Grimes. He's a man that shoulders the responsibility, and it's one of the forces that keeps pushing him on.

I'm aware that if the ball is thrown in my direction, I'm expected to catch it because the media is going to be on my back.

There are no client conflicts, only bad explanations.

My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.

I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.

All sin and all crime comes from the same thing: 'I decided. I decided this was okay.'

It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.

I wasn't used to all these cameras getting stuck in my face. I feel like Justin Bieber sometimes.

Media wants to know everything. We are in this industry: we have to get used to it; we are still getting used to it. So I have no complaints. They are doing their job.

I got to start limiting the hits I take on myself.

I'm not a social guy. I don't like the constant media glare on everything I do.

Everything is my fault when you're me. I don't know why.

There are a lot of peripheral things that you have to deal with in this league, and I dealt with a lot of them when I came in. It's everything from being on your own to facing the media.

I had no sense of guilt. All during the course of the operation, I knew it was a job.

When you sign a contract with a club like Barca, that's what you have to cope with. You have to show your face when you've lost games. I knew that when I came into the job.

It's easy to let yourself down - it's tough to let other people down.

The one feeling that settled in and stayed there for a long while, and I still deal with, is guilt. I was there. I was a part of it. Why does it have to be like this? Was I responsible? Was I the reason Dale was in that position? I'd ask myself that question and look around at people and wonder if they were thinking that, too.

I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility.

It was very hard when the newspapers were chasing me. It was also very weird. I know I'd just become world champion but shouldn't they be following someone who has done something wrong?

There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.