Saying Sorry Quotes - Page 2

• A man walks into a hospital feeling unwell and the doctor says: "Sorry, you've only got three minutes to live." The man said: "Can you do something for me?" "Yes," he said. "I'll boil you an egg."

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Sorry, Humor

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• Forgiveness depends on the person. If he's saying sorry to make himself comfortable, then don't forgive him. If he's asking for forgiveness sincerely, then it's okay to forgive him. If you don't know what's on that person's mind... It's easy. Watch carefully how that person has lived up to now, and how he's living right now.

  Kim Du-han

  Sorry, Drama, Living Right

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• I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.

  Imelda Marcos

  Sorry, Godly

  "No Apology, It Was A Godly Act - Imelda". NewsFlash News Agency, October 14, 1998.

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• This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get federal situation, the fiscal policy [under control], we're Greece. We're a banana republic. Our status as a nation is threatened by what we’ve got coming at us in the area of deficit and debt. And it’s only a few more years, at the most, that we have to work with here before the market says, ‘Sorry, your currency is something we can not continue to defend.’

  Judd Gregg

  Sorry, Years, Political

  "'We're Greece' in a Few Years: Sen. Gregg". www.cnbc.com. November 3, 2010.

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• I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Sorry, Gun, Thinking

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• Are we going to say sorry for our lack of customer service? Absolutely not.

  Michael O'Leary

  Sorry, Offensive, Customers

  "Ryanair shows how much it cares" by Julia Day, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2002.

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• It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Sorry, Drunk, Okay

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• I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet.

  Michel Gondry

  Sorry, People, Risk

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• I just do not hang around anybody that I don't want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don't mind saying sorry or thank you... and [are] having a fun time.

  John Assaraf

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sorry

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Mar 05, 2014

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• I travel with chocolate - Godiva with caramel. When the craving hits, I have to have it. I share, but if I'm on my last one, I've been known to say, 'Sorry, I'm out!'

  Christa B. Allen

  Sorry, Chocolate, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron. "What did you have to imitate her for?" "She laughed at my mustache!" "So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sorry, Mustache, Flocks

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• I wanted to say sorry, I wanted to tell her I could not forget the roundup, the camp, Michel's death, and the direct train to Auschwitz that had taken her parents away forever. Sorry for what? he had retaliated, why should I, an American, feel sorry, hadn't my fellow countrymen freed France in June 1944? I had nothing to be sorry for, he laughed. I had looked at him straight in the eyes. Sorry for not knowing. Sorry for being forty-five years old and not knowing.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Sorry, Taken, Eye

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• There was something I needed to say. “Sorry. About before.” Fang shot a sideways glance at me, his eyes dark and inscrutable, as always. He looked back out at the water. I didn’t expect any more acknowledgment than that. Fang never- “You almost gave me a heart attack,” he said quietly. “When I saw you, and all that blood . . .” He threw a small rock as hard as he could down the beach. “I’m sorry.” “Don’t do it again,” he said. I swallowed hard. “I won’t.” Something changed right then, but I didn’t know what.

  James Patterson

  Beach, Sorry, Heart

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• Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a bar, you see, very unassuming, and order a martini. Then the bartender, Hilarity, hauls off and squirts me in the face with a seltzer bottle, ruining my n ice new camel hair suit, dousing my monocle and my watch fob, soaking my cravat. So, do I let him have what for, and blow my top? I do not. I simply say: Sorry, I believe I said 'very dry'.

  Chip Kidd

  Cousin, Sorry, Believe

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• There were so many things I have had to say sorry for that I wasn’t sorry about.

  Miley Cyrus

  Sorry

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• Her eyes, mostly cast downward, occasionally flicker upwards to meet his before falling again. She is apologetic for everything, as always, constantly saying sorry to the world, as though as her very presence offends.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Sorry, Fall, Eye

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• I don't like to start anything, ever, but if they're going to try to intimidate me, I like to just stand there and say, 'Sorry, it ain't gonna happen.' I'm shy but I'm badass. I'm not shy in a timid way, just shy in a way that I'm not comfortable with people.

  Rosie Napravnik

  Sorry, Badass, People

  "Rosie Napravnik: 'I had a dream of winning the Derby on Shanghai Bobby'". Interview with Daniel Ross, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2013.

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• I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Sorry, Wife, Reason

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2007.

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• Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up

  Tim Ferriss

  Sorry, Screw Ups, Troublemaker

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving Up, Sorry, Waiting

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.87, New World Library

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• I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry.

  Hwang Woo-suk

  Sorry, Apology, Miserable

  "Disgraced stem cell scientist blames researchers". www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2006.

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• Every Sunday my dad calls to ask if I went to church. And every Sunday I lie and say: Sorry. Wrong Number.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Sorry, Dad, Lying

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2010

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• I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Sorry, Moving, Doctors

  Jenny McCarthy (2007). “Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism”, p.75, Penguin

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• Saying sorry doesn't mean there isn't guilt & forgiving doesn't mean that the pain is gone.

  Harriet Morgan

  Sorry, Pain, Mean

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• I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to people who make millions by murdering other living creatures.

  Geoffrey Giuliano

  Children, Sorry, People

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