Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Lethem

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror

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.

Jim Rohn

The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.

Joe Biden

I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I was wrong. He called me to tell me after Pat Robertson's endorsement, there's an Amen in every sentence he says too.

John Landis

One of the challenges of the movie is there are no apologies or excuses.

Judith Martin

A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.

Joyce Meyer

The best way to have the last word is to apologize.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one." He Spread his hands wide. "My deepest apologies." "When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful." The press was busy printing money.

Justin Amash

To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community and apology for a disgusting and despicable smear campaign,

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.

Mike Huckabee

Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.

Jodi Picoult

An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology

Nikki Cox

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

Ma Jian

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

Meshell Ndegeocello

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

Mitt Romney

An apology for America's values is never the right course.

Kevin Madden

President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it.

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.

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.

Ken Burns

I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.

Kathy Griffin

I have a no-apology policy.

Randy Pausch

Apologies are not pass/fail.

Randy Pausch

A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

Sienna Miller

I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.

Rajneesh

Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.

Socrates

It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.