Pardon Me Quotes - Page 2

• I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Easier, Difficult

  Usenet article <199710120226.TAA06867@wall.org>, 1997.

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• I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80 percent of the air pollution in this country. ... Well, now he was a little wrong about what I said. I didn't say 80 percent. I said 92 percent-93 percent, pardon me. And I didn't say air pollution, I said oxides of nitrogen. Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. ... If we are totally successful and can eliminate all the manmade oxides of nitrogen, we'll still have 93 percent as much as we have in the air today.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Fun, Successful

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• Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour. In other words, you don't want to be serious - It takes two to be serious.

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Girl, Flower

  "Forward to an Exhibit: II". Poem by E. E. Cummings, 1945.

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• Pardon me, O perfections of my God, for having preferred imperfect and evil inclinations to Thee! Pardon me, O justice of my God, for having outraged Thee by my sins. Pardon me, O holiness of my God, for having so long stained Thy sight's purity by my sins. Pardon me, O mercy of my God, for having despised so long Thy mercy's voice. In deep sorrow and contrition, I cast myself at Thy feet: Have mercy on me.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Forgiveness, Voice, Feet

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• What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

  Voltaire

  Tolerance, Humanity, Frailty

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.497, Voltaire

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• So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.

  William Morris

  Forgiveness, Sea, Paradise

  William Morris (1871). “The Earthly Paradise: A Poem”, p.2

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• You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

  Charles II of England

  Gentleman, Dying, Last Words

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• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  Barbara Olson

  Presidential, Special, Attention

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• If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish.

  Lana Turner

  Party, Dumb, Hollywood

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• You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

  Martial

  Thinking, Pay, Praise

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.384

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• Pardon me while I lower my voice.

  Verne Lundquist

  Voice, Pardon

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• O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.

  Gemma Galgani

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I've forgot, Please stick them in you eye!

  Shel Silverstein

  Goodbye, Kindness, Eye

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• If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pardon, Ifs

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• The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't look like much of a minstrel, and you're— pardon me for saying so lad, but it's true— ordinary as cheese crumbs. So it's love if you ask me.

  Neil Gaiman

  Land, Mad, Ordinary

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• Pardon me, but there’s someone on the phone who says they have a call for you.” There’s a call to tell me I have a call?” he asked with heavy skepticism.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Phones, Heavy, Skepticism

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• Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.

  Sena Jeter Naslund

  Self, Degradation, Soar

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• Pardon me, Highness, a women waits whithout." "Whithout what?

  Jonathan Stroud

  Waiting, Pardon, Highness

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• S'mimasen," Alyss said repeatedly as they brushed against passerby. "What does that mean?" Will asked as they reached a stretch of street bare of any other pedestrians. He was impressed by Alyss's grasp of the local language. "It means 'pardon me,'" Alyss replied, but then a shadow of doubt crossed her face. "At least, I hope it does. Maybe I'm saying 'you have the manners of a fat, rancid sow.

  John Flanagan

  Mean, Doubt, Shadow

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• That be the jealousy talking," Gator said, in no way perturbed. "I can't help the way the women love me. I was born with the gift." The men hooted and made rude noises. "You were born with a gift of bullshitting." Sam pointed out, "but that's about it." He looked at Dahlia. "Pardon me, ma'am, but its the truth." "I rather thought it was," she agreed.

  Christine Feehan

  Men, Talking, Rude

  Christine Feehan (2004). “Mind Game”, p.189, Penguin

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• But I wasn't happy... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt]. 'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace... The Ranger gave him a withering look. 'Oh, pardon me... three more men does make a lot of difference.

  John Flanagan

  Men, Two, Differences

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• Morning, sunshine." Vlad blinked at her. "Morning, sulfuric acid." "Pardon me?" "Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'?

  Heather Brewer

  Morning, Sunshine, Vampire

  Heather Brewer (2007). “The chronicles of Vladimir Tod: eighth grade bites”

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• Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.

  Douglas Adams

  Breathing, Way, Paranoid

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free. For God the just is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me.

  Charitie Lees Smith

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

  Voltaire

  Forgiveness, Failure, Errors

  Voltaire, André Maurois (1939). “The Living Thoughts of Voltaire”

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