I Am Sorry Quotes - Page 3

• I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorry, Kindness, Gambling

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 21 November 1773

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• Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sorry, Gone, Feels

  Arthur Ashe's message to his daughter Camera, as quoted in Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad "Days of Grace: A Memoir" (p. 341), May 1, 1994.

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• As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.

  Bobby Vinton

  Sorry, Guy, Drug

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• Granted, not really a joke, but how often do you get a mic in your hand? You know? So. I am sorry but don't anybody trip on my soap box on the way out. Don't anybody trip over that. And the chip on my shoulder's a little heavy. I have back problems now.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Sorry, Hands, Littles

  "Janeane Garofalo". TV Special, August 23, 1997.

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• But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.

  Thomas Keneally

  Sorry, Home, School

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• I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sorry, Son, Trying

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• Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.

  George MacDonald

  Sorry, Princess, Opportunity

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.4208, Delphi Classics

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• I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

  Jane Austen

  Sorry, Spending, Extravagant

  Jane Austen (2008). “Letters of Jane Austen: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of my league.” “Then I wish for an infinite number of wishes!” Those people on fairy tales never thought of that. “People in fairy tales wish for that all the time,” the genie said. “They arent stupid. It just isnt in the records because I cant grant that type of wish.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sorry, Stupid, Numbers

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• Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Sorry, Suffering

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.71, Random House

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• And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Im Sorry, Being Sorry, Feeling Sorry

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• Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

  Karl Kraus

  Sorry, Law, Abortion

  Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar

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• I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits that he does not know anything of these terms or what it is all about; but, Mr. Chairman, it is indeed a sad day for the people of this country when we must close the doors of the laboratories doing research work for the people of the United States.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Country, Sorry, Party

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• In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity - and it was an atrocity.

  Oliver Stone

  Sorry, Regret, Hard Work

  "Oliver Stone: ‘Jewish Domination Of The Media’ Propagates Holocaust Myths". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

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• The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Sorry, Mad

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Sorry, Grieving, I Can

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• ... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics. I am sorry, but this seems to be the case.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Sorry, Science, Law

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• and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sorry, Games, Play

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• I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Sorry, Men, Law

  Last words on October 16, 1946. "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II". Book by John Lewis-Stempel, p. 564, 2002.

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• And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?' Esca said very simply, 'They will kill me.' 'I am sorry, but I do not think much of that plan.' Marcus said.

  Rosemary Sutcliff

  Sorry, Thinking, Stories

  Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Eagle”, p.161, Macmillan

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• As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.

  Rosie Perez

  Sorry, Latin, Office

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• I am sorry to be so blunt, but I do not see much ambiguity here. [Barack] Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture. And now he is quick to make allies with the Muslim Brotherhood for tactical reasons as well (though earlier that same administration stoked Islamophobic fear about that very political party).

  Judith Butler

  Sorry, Military, Party

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• I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.” “I’m in love with her.” “I am sorry to hear that,” he says. “It will make the challenge a great deal more difficult for you.” “We have been playing at this for more than a decade, when does it end?” “It ends when there is a victor.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Sorry, Distance, Challenges

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• I am sorry " I murmured. "I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair. "I just cannot bear to be kept out of your life " I said into the dark. He gave a sigh. "Julia you daft woman. When you will you understand You are my life.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Sorry, Dark, Kissing

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• I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there to save you, or to die alongside you. I am sorry that I have kept you with me for so long, trapped in my heart, bound in sorrow and remorse. I forgive you too. I forgive you for leaving me, and I forgive you for returning. I forgive you your anger, and your grief. Let this be an end to it.

  John Connolly

  Sorry, Grief, Heart

  John Connolly (2012). “The John Connolly Collection #2: The White Road, The Black Angel, and The Unquiet”, p.1300, Simon and Schuster

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