Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Brenda Lee

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

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.

Albert Einstein

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Douglas Horton

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Mason Cooley

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

Benjamin Disraeli

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Greg LeMond

More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

Jack Abramoff

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

Leon Czolgosz

I am sorry I could not see my father.

Sitting Bull

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

Monica Lewinsky

And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.

Lee Atwater

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

Henry A. Kissinger

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Lynn Johnston

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

Stephen King

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Robin Quivers

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

Vincent Gallo

Im sorry Im not gay or Jewish, so I dont have a special interest group of journalists that support me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

Syd Barrett

Im sorry I cant speak very coherently.

Steve Martin

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Stephen King

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Robert Fulghum

Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.