Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Disraeli

"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.

Al Gore

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

Demi Lovato

Don't say you're sorry, 'cause I'm not even breaking. You're not worth the time that this is taking.

Charles Olson

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

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."

Chuck Palahniuk

Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry...

Christopher Moore

The bat was looking at Theo and Theo was having trouble following his own thoughts.The bat was wearing tiny sunglasses.Ray Bans,Theo could see by the trademark in the corner of one lens."I'm sorry, Mr.,uh- Case, could you take the bat off your head.It's very distracting." Him." Pardon?" It's a him.Roberto.He no like the light.

Anne Bronte

I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others. But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.

Anne Tyler

The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

C. S. Lewis

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Elbert Hubbard

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Meg Stuart

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Alexander Lowen

The path to joy leads through despair.

Don Piper

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

Andrew Solomon

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

John Talbot

The scanner's about the size of a toaster, maybe just a little longer,

Benjamin Cardozo

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

Jane Austen

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Jane Austen

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Brigitte Bardot

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

Dana Stabenow

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.

Elie Wiesel

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

Edgar Allan Poe

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.