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.

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.

Jack Vance

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

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.

George W. Bush

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

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.

Jerome Corsi

I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.

Jim Bakker

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

I understand the document actually hit the page and I think that he really owes her the apology at the very least.

Skip Bertman

While the football game was exciting, I am especially writing to express my sincere apology and regret to you, your president and all Tennessee fans for the incident which took place on our campus as your team buses were approaching Tiger Stadium.

Randy Pausch

Apologies are not pass/fail.

Randy Pausch

A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

Sienna Miller

I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.

Ma Jian

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

Meshell Ndegeocello

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

Michael C. Hall

Sometimes men present a swagger that suggests a prowess, whether it's sexual or financial. L.A. seems to be a place where trying too hard is almost a given. Some people are unapologetic about how blatantly they represent who they are through what they wear or drive. Subtlety is in short supply.

Michael Chabon

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

Nina Hagen

I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.

Thaksin Shinawatra

The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

Margaret Mitchell

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

Kevin Shelley

I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself.

Michael Foot

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology

Rajneesh

Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.

Socrates

It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.

Socrates

Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place.

Socrates

Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.

Socrates

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.