Famous Quotes & Sayings

Desmond Tutu

In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

Sebastian Faulks

My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You’re a slave? (Eleni) I was. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have come here. (Acheron) Take your cloak off and sit, Acheron. You’ve done nothing to apologize for. I admire you all the more for stopping to help us. It’s nothing for a nobleman to do so, yet they seldom bother to help those less fortunate. For a freedman to speak up in defense of another takes great courage and character. What you did is all the more noble and kind, and I would be honored to have you sit at my table with us. (Acheron)

Meg Cabot

Mia, I'm not sorry. And I'll wait. Love, Michael.

Lance Armstrong

Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.

Lisa Kleypas

I want you to admit just once what you feel for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry for anything.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sorry. I have technical difficulties making it through a room without bumping into something. Thank God my clumsiness is only restricted to the ground. I’d probably kill myself diving if I was this bad underwater. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Now, that’s my boy you’re talking about, and I don’t want to get crossed up with you, Sasha. But you keep that tone and attitude about him, and we will.” – Sundown “Sorry. I forget you and Ash are weird enough to actually like him. No accounting for taste.” – Sasha

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m sorry, you just remind me of someone. (Rose) Old boyfriend? (Gallagher) No, my great-grandfather. (Rose) That’s not particularly flattering. I thought I looked rather good for my age. (Gallagher)

Gayle Forman

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.

Gayle Forman

I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close. Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough.

Curtis Sittenfeld

If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him.

Colum McCann

I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter.

Orson Scott Card

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

Stevie Smith

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Cate Blanchett

Please, I need you to save my ass.

Jeff Buckley

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

Georges Bataille

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

George Will

The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.

Jeff Olson

Sometimes you need to slow down to go fast.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

Gena Showalter

What we want is not always what we need.