Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivan Lendl

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

Greg LeMond

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

Grace Hopper

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

Georg Brandes

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

Hume Cronyn

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

Mordecai Richler

Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.

Kevin Rudd

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.

Kelley Armstrong

Just show him that I didn't need his apology, I guess. Show him that I was okay. Better than okay. I was happy, in spite of everything he'd done to me, and no, I didn't forgive him. God help me, I would not forgive him.

An apology would not be in order. Nothing improper was done.

Karen Smith

An apology to Jason Smith and his family in court does very little to remove the bodily harm and injury that (Elvena) has done to him. A slap on the hand is no punishment for a broken nose.

Heath Ledger

I apologize for my terrible interview skills.

Khaled Hosseini

She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Michael C. Hall

Sometimes men present a swagger that suggests a prowess, whether it's sexual or financial. L.A. seems to be a place where trying too hard is almost a given. Some people are unapologetic about how blatantly they represent who they are through what they wear or drive. Subtlety is in short supply.

Michael Chabon

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

Nigel Dodds

The entire Protestant community have every right to receive a total unequivocal apology without weasel words of excuses about provocation.

The coming days offer a critical chance to take a bold new step forward by raising these issues with confidence and without apology and asking for some concrete and time-bound human rights commitments in return.

Paul Simon

The commission was concerned about the working relationship between myself and Judge Castillo when I served as presiding judge in 2003. I regret that despite my apology to that judge and my efforts to restore a working relationship he chose to file a complaint,

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.

John Milton

The best apology against false accusers is silence.

Joan Rivers

We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.

George Allen

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

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.

Lynndie England

I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers.

John Landis

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

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.

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.

Maimonides

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.