Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Palin

I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree.

Sara Zarr

It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say I’m sorry, to say it’s okay, to say I forgive you. The tiniest of declarations that built, one on top of the other, until there was something solid beneath your feet. And then… and then. Who knew?

Samuel Butler

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

Samuel Lover

Better to be safe than sorry.

W. S. Gilbert

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.

W. H. Auden

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

W. H. Auden

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

Wayne Newton

There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

Wayne Gretzky

I'm not sure Mario is going to get accolafes he deserves, especially from outside the game. But from within, the players, the people who follow closely, realize exactly what he's broughtto the table, exactly what he has done. People tend to forget... hockey was dying in Pittsburgh before he got there. I played there. It was almost dead. I'm sorry, but the NHL would not have a franchise in Pittsburgh today had Mario not come along. Think about it, no hockey in Pittsburgh.

Wayne Dyer

You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose

Vash Young

Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that smile coming onto my face, I wish I could take my face off and stamp on it.

Vincent Cassel

It's now or never. This is simple to say, but then to live like that is not easy at all, I'm sorry. You have to be aware enough so that you can see situations as they pass in front of you and be able to catch the instant, whatever it is. Many times, you just don't see the moment when you were yawning and then it's too late.

Walt Whitman

Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.

Sarah Dessen

The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already. This was a screwed-up place he'd just come into. But he didn't have to know that. Not yet, anyway. There in that room, where it was hot and cramped, the world probably still seemed small enough to manage.

Rogers Hornsby

I never saw a pitcher I didn't feel sorry for.

Rogers Hornsby

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

Robin McKinley

What you describe is how it happens to everyone: magic does slide through you, and disappear, and come back later looking like something else. And I'm sorry to tell you this, but where your magic lives will always be a great dark space with scraps you fumble for. You must learn to sniff them out in the dark.

Robert Rauschenberg

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

Robert Rauschenberg

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

Satoru Iwata

We are sorry about [the E3] media briefings, specifically for those who were expecting to see Nintendo show something about ‘Super Mario’ or ‘Legend of Zelda.’

William Hague

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

Vladimir Nabokov

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Vladimir Nabokov

Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.

Willie Robertson

My advice is: Don't take yourself too seriously, laugh a lot, enjoy your time with family, and appreciate the unique talents of others. Trust in God, love your neighbor, say you're sorry, forgive, and work hard.

Robert Irvine

I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts.

Robert H. Schuller

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Robert Anton Wilson

Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.

Richard L. Evans

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Tucker Max

I'm sorry, but I stand by my decision. I am now a member of the elite club of people that have fought a professional team mascot. You sir, are not in that club.

Tullian Tchividjian

It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.

Tom Peters

Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;" What kind of business should I start?" Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: "What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?" Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask - upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.