Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Evan Esar

If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.

Francis Parkman

If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.

George W. Bush

I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail.

Fiona Apple

I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.

Fiona Apple

Everything that happens with me gets made out to be a fiasco, but I have every right to do everything I've ever done. I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

Helen Keller

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live ...

Gary owes an apology because he started the lockout. He put all of this in motion.

Glenn Frey

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

Gwen Ifill

A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit.

Jack White

Let me just say that if whatever said radio station tries to blacklist us for my comments about their balloons, I would like them to know I want a written apology tomorrow for interrupting my song.

Neil Armstrong

I was the strange creature that kidnapped Bock from his homeland and brought him to this strange new and still changing planet. I can't help feeling that I owe him an apology or at least an explanation.

We feel great rage at the continued attacks on Islam and the Prophet of Islam and we demand that the Danish government make a clear and public apology for the wrongful crime.

We can only offer our utmost apology to our Slovenian hosts for what's happened.

Jay Leno

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

Erin Morgenstern

Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds other ways to tell her, his fingers leaving faint trails of ink in their wake. He savors every sound he elicits from her. The entire room trembles as they come together. And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks.

Christine Pelosi

When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

Chris Shays

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Guy Clark

I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.

Harry Reid

There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people, ... The president's going to have to get a touch of reality.

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.

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.

All I asked for was a written and verbal apology from Ms. Gossman, and I didn't get it, ... I have contacted a lawyer, and the housing board is responsible for what she did. You are all three responsible, and you are going to be served. She needs to be taken off the board.

Jodi Picoult

An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No sensible person ever made an apology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

Lee Kuan Yew

I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.