Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Armey

It is with deep regret and sense of apology that I inform members we are unable to do further work this evening on legislative business.

I'm glad he is starting to acknowledge that an apology needs to be made, but it is unfortunate that he has to put conditions on doing the right thing.

I'm definitely thinking about saying something to the front office if they don't say something to us first, some type of apology or ways they are going to step up security.

I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games.

They are not looking for money. They are looking for an apology and they are looking to have their reputation restored.

Colin Firth

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

But just one word of apology would have been needed for us to live in this human society.

David Letterman

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.

Cory Doctorow

What petulant jerks. Look, Sony, you got caught sleazing your customers' computers. Telling us that it wasn't so bad is just infuriating and insulting. An apology would have been better received.

Condoleezza Rice

We were within international waters, we were within international airspace, when this incident occurred, ... An apology is not forthcoming.

We asked for an apology or a censure of the city attorney, but we never got anything from the city.

Kurt Vonnegut

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

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.

Kirk Douglas

If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed the resolution for the apology, but it has to pass the Senate. I think, in spite of all our problems, I think we're in the right direction.

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.

Justin Amash

To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community and apology for a disgusting and despicable smear campaign,

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.

Mitt Romney

An apology for America's values is never the right course.

Mike Huckabee

Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.

Julian Bond

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

Ken Kesey

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

Ken Burns

I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.

Kathy Griffin

I have a no-apology policy.

Kevin Madden

President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it.

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.

Jay Leno

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

Once these young men are vindicated, I feel that a big apology from the community is in order.

This is the way the government apologizes. I view this letter as the government's apology to Richard Jewell.

This might not exactly be the apology I had been seeking, but it is still a step forward. I will now wait for the outcome of my petition in the Pakistani Supreme Court.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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