Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia Briggs

He sighed. " I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?" "No.

Plato

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

James Richardson

Too much apology doubles the offense.

Libba Bray

Amen, sister, ... All apologies to Tom Cruise.

Lester Cole

It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

Johnny Carson

There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am.

David Davis

This is no dog-and-pony show, ... Your apology is too late, Mr. Lawson.

All I asked for was a written and verbal apology from Ms. Gossman, and I didn't get it, ... I have contacted a lawyer, and the housing board is responsible for what she did. You are all three responsible, and you are going to be served. She needs to be taken off the board.

Once these young men are vindicated, I feel that a big apology from the community is in order.

Dick Armey

It is with deep regret and sense of apology that I inform members we are unable to do further work this evening on legislative business.

This might not exactly be the apology I had been seeking, but it is still a step forward. I will now wait for the outcome of my petition in the Pakistani Supreme Court.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My life is not an apology, but a life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No sensible person ever made an apology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of thyself.

Lee Kuan Yew

I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.

Stephen Ambrose

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

Robert Altman

I make no apologies for Popeye. Behind M*A*S*H, it's my biggest hit. It got maligned by the critics because it wasn't Superman. It wasn't about special effects and it wasn't made for 14-year-old boys. The majority of films are made for 14-year-old boys; I don't know where they get the eight bucks to get in. It's hush money from the parents.

Tom Paulin

I am not very moved by historical apologies.

Tina Fey

I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian coworkers at 30 Rock, without whom Tracy would not have lines to say, clothes to wear, sets to stand on, scene partners to act with, or a printed-out paycheck from accounting to put in his pocket.

Swoosie Kurtz

It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.

Richard Shelby

I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.

Kevin J. Anderson

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Cory Doctorow

What petulant jerks. Look, Sony, you got caught sleazing your customers' computers. Telling us that it wasn't so bad is just infuriating and insulting. An apology would have been better received.

I understand the document actually hit the page and I think that he really owes her the apology at the very least.

Paul Watson

We are killing our host the planet Earth.... I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the 'AIDS of the Earth.' I make no apologies for that statement.... We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.

Mel Gibson

There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a DUI charge.

Quentin Tarantino

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

Mike Figgis

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.