Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tasha Smith

No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say what you won't ever do. And you can't say that you won't have forgiveness in your heart if there were to be an issue like that.

Charles R. Swindoll

God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

Democritus

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Elbert Hubbard

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

Elizabeth Bowen

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

Deepak Chopra

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

Abdul Qadeer Khan

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

David Small

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

Bryan Davis

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.

Charlie Kimball

The typical response from people when I tell them Im diabetic is, Oh, Im sorry to hear that. You know, Im not. Im a better athlete because of diabetes rather than despite it. Im more aware of my training, my fitness and more aware of nutrition. Im more proactive about my health.

Benjamin Franklin

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Demetri Martin

People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.

Demetri Martin

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

Archibald Alexander

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

Anthony Weiner

I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

Brenda Lee

Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

Benjamin Disraeli

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Chris Harper

Mr. Wilson is very remorseful that this happened. He totally regrets it.

Charles Mitchell

No one that I've talked to is regretting that we had a tropical storm.

Neil Rackers

Nope. I'd have no regrets about this year, other than the two I just told you about -- the 54-yarder and the 43-yarder.

Charles R. Swindoll

Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk... If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold.

Diane Keaton

Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.

Dennis Potter

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

Dennis Quaid

I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

Dennis Rodman

I have one regret, I wish I was a better father.

Edgar Allan Poe

That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.