Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Leunig

Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and troublesome, just as nature or art can be.

Mike Alden

Unfortunately, in this particular case, some of our initial communication played out in a way that was not positive. We apologize as to how that represented us as an institution.

Alex Brown

We're better than what we showed. I said after the game I apologize to the fans, and I really do. I apologize again, and we'll be better next year. I promise you that.

Mark Grace

Through a technical difficulty, I may have offended some people. If that's the case, I apologize and I will face any consequences.

Tony Blair

Let's just apologize and move on -- that's the sensible thing,

Sara Paddison

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.

Al Groh

We regret that the incident occurred and apologize to Mathias. We prize and promote sportsmanship, discipline and accountability and are all concerned that Brad did not handle himself in line with what we expect of a Virginia football player.

Alonzo Carter

We're good. I'm not going to apologize for our growth as a program. But there's a little in-your-face urgency to it. Everybody's watching. We need to win to be able to justify or validate the status of this program. We know that, and we're going to give it our best effort to do that.

Marc Racicot

Sen. Kerry's statement ... in Illinois was unbecoming of a candidate for the presidency ... and ... we call on Senator Kerry to apologize to the American people for this negative attack.

David Emerson

We are pleased with this decision because it reflects the position we have maintained all along. The United States can no longer claim that its measure is WTO-consistent.

Adam Ereli

There are claims of responsibility. They're really, quite frankly, hard to verify. I wouldn't be able to tell you that we know who's responsible at this point.

Antonio Tabucchi

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Bill Nye

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

Justin Glover

We have to focus on paying the claims and looking at the sources we have to do that.

Wayne Allen

We have no suspects and nobody has claimed responsibility at this time,

Rob Wheeler

We have never denied a claim because we lacked the money. We want to give this money. We want to disperse the funds and pay the bills. We aren't trying to keep tight purse strings, if you will.

Membathisi Mdladlana

We want issues related to compensation and pension claims to be addressed urgently since we do not want to see families of these workers starving.

Bill Maher

You can't claim you're for peace if you're not willing to disturb it.

Alan Greenspan

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to.

Mike Hansen

We are prepared to take a look at our financial situation this spring.

Nader Agha

We are prepared to make the offer, but we need some more financial information.

Van Honeycutt

We are pleased with our financial performance for the third quarter during a challenging and turbulent period for IT service providers.

Daymond John

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Lisa Alexander

We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.

Charlie Munger

'F.A.S.B' ... 'Financial Accounts Still Bogus'.

Alan Greenspan

While (Japan) has made some important efforts, it has yet to make significant progress in diversifying the financial system,

Dan Murphy

We're going to have to see what the financial position is once we get through this bidding phase and make adjustments to provide a full service, high quality high school for our students.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Annalee Newitz

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

Aristotle

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

W. G. Sebald

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

Os Guinness

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

Paul Larsen

When they go back and lecture about that material from the textbook, they have a brand-new perspective on what they're talking about.

David Souter

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

John McCain

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

Hal Boyle

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Eric Schaefer

There was always a lecturer during the shows named Elliott Forbes, but since there were 15-20 of these road shows going on, there were 15 or 20 Elliott Forbes. It was really a multimedia experience.

Brian Clough

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

Nicola Sturgeon

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

Lemuel K. Washburn

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?

Alexander Downer

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

Tom Paulin

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

Francis Atterbury

The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

Lord Caradon

Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers.

Little Richard

No, I've never truly been a minister.

Margaret Thatcher

Advisers advise, and ministers decide.

Mayim Bialik

Publicly I'm a very modest dresser, by Hollywood's standards.

Judy Nadler

You have to publicly reprimand someone. If there are no consequences, things will not change. This is drive-by ethics.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Studd

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Charles Stross

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

Charles Stross

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Joel Edgerton

I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Tancredo Neves

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.