Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Paine

The continual whine of lamenting the burden of taxes, however successfully it may be practiced in mixed governments, is inconsistent with the sense and spirit of a republic. If taxes are necessary, they are of course advantageous, but if they require an apology, the apology itself implies an impeachment. Why, then, is man imposed upon, or why does he impose upon himself?

Robin Quivers

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

Sarah Kay

You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.

Trent Lott

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

Richard Widmark

Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.

Samuel Johnson

Apologies are seldom of any use.

Samuel Johnson

There are occasions on which all apologies are rudeness.

Ronald Reagan

America's foreign policy supports freedom, democracy, and human dignity for all mankind, and we make no apologies for it. The opportunity society that we want for ourselves we also want for others, not because we're imposing our system on others but because those opportunities belong to all people as God-given birthrights and because by promoting democracy and economic opportunity we make peace more secure.

Vivian Stanshall

Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

Upton Sinclair

It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.

Stephen Colbert

I did learn something interesting [while at the Atlanta airport]. You have to be a member of the TSA in order to legally perform a cavity search. My apologies to the staff of Cinnabon, but you guys should really keep that extra frosting where the customers can find it.

Jerome Corsi

I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.

Jim Bakker

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

Jack Vance

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Evan Esar

If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.

Guy Clark

I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.

Gary owes an apology because he started the lockout. He put all of this in motion.

George W. Bush

I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail.

Francis Parkman

If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.

Fiona Apple

I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.

Fiona Apple

Everything that happens with me gets made out to be a fiasco, but I have every right to do everything I've ever done. I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

Helen Keller

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live ...

No apology is owed for protecting the safety of elementary students.

Brian Smith

The attorney who put the wheels in motion for the garnished wages, if memory serves me, was Gregory A. Benoit. A letter of profuse apology from Mr. Benoit came to me after I contacted him in writing expressing my displeasure with the turn of events.

Syria has failed to protect a diplomatic mission. If you look at the pictures, you can see that the security people turned their backs. Everybody was hoping that when the newspaper came out with an apology and our prime minister came out with a personal apology, this would have cooled things. What more can we do ?

Lindy Ruff

It's a distinct kicking motion. It was kicked in, and I'm sure we'll get an apology from the league on it. We've had reviews that lasted five minutes. That took two seconds and the guy kicked it in? Come on, I don't understand how a video judge here can make that type of call when it's that distinct.

Erin Morgenstern

Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds other ways to tell her, his fingers leaving faint trails of ink in their wake. He savors every sound he elicits from her. The entire room trembles as they come together. And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks.

Jay Leno

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

Julian Bond

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

Ken Kesey

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

Harry Reid

There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people, ... The president's going to have to get a touch of reality.