Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oprah Winfrey

The reason I gained so much weight in the first place and the reason I had such a sorry history of abusive relationships with men was I just needed approval so much. I needed everyone to like me, because I didn't like myself much.

Margaret Atwood

The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.

Margaret Atwood

I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, than at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia. I wish it had more shape. I wish t were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one’s life, or even about sunsets, birds, rainstorms, or snow. I’m sorry there is so much pain in this story. I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Kiefer Sutherland

When Julia and I broke up and I was really scared to go into a market or anywhere because I thought, Oh God, everyone must hate me. And that wasn't the case. People said, I'm sorry this happened, man. Are you alright?

Ken Mehlman

As I've been involved in the fight for marriage equality, one of the things I've learned is how many people were harmed by the campaigns in which I was involved. I apologize to them and tell them I am sorry. While there have been recent victories, this could still be a long struggle in which there will be setbacks, and I'll do my part to be helpful.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television.

Margaret Thatcher

In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'

Margaret Thatcher

What? What am I 'bound to be feeling?' People don’t think anymore. They feel. 'How are you feeling? No, I don’t feel comfortable. I’m sorry, we as a group we’re feeling….' One of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas. Thoughts and ideas. That interests me. Ask me what I’m thinking.

Margaret Thatcher

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

Margaret Deland

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

Margaret Cho

Now on Facebook I have all these 'friends' who used to bully me, and they're like, 'We're so proud! We love you!' They come to shows and want to take a picture, and they're like, 'Don't you remember us?' And I'm like, 'I'm sorry, I don't.' And I feel bad, but I feel good.

Paul Ford

Writing code means always having to say you're sorry.

Lillian Hellman

Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.

Lillian Hellman

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

Lea Michele

I think I’m his biggest fan. Like, I’m really sorry everybody out there but you have a tough time beating me. I’m like the number one Chris Colfer fan club.

Laurence J. Peter

When you see yourself quoted in print and you’re sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

Lauren Miller

Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.

Lauren Myracle

I'm sorry," he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them.

Lauren Oliver

I’m sorry for everything.” Then he turns and pushes back into the woods, and he’s gone.

Lauren Oliver

I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind.

Lauren Oliver

Because?' I prompt 'Because I'm sorry, but I can't help it, and I really need to kiss you right now.

Lauren Oliver

I’m sorry,” he repeats again, too low for Raven and Tack to hear. “I’m sorry for everything.

Lauren Oliver

For the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for Carol. I'm only seventeen years old, and I already know something she doesn't know: I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is to find things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

Larry Wall

I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

L. Frank Baum

We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong.

Paul Stanley

America is a business. If you can't afford to do something, no matter how much bellyaching everybody does I'm so sorry, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it.

Oscar Wilde

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

Isaiah Mustafa

Sorry, I'm not much of a cook.

Imelda Marcos

I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.

Idries Shah

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Forgiveness is not a matter of feeling superior, of feeling sorry for our parents because they didn't' know any better. It comes when we understand that as humans we all do the very best we can, and we can't ask for more than that. Forgiveness is making the choice to find no more value in anger, and to see that we are all God's light, all joined, and the separations we feel are only part of the illusions of the ego.

Harry Reid

Do you know how I feel about that? I'm sure this is no big surprise... what a mistake. I should never have voted for that, but I accepted what [former Secretary of State] Colin Powell and the others said. But it took me just a matter of a few months to realize it was a bad mistake, and my record speaks for itself. I've spoken out against what was going on, not once, not twice, but lots of times. And I'm sorry that I was misled, but I was, and it was a mistake for me to vote for that war.