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• Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents.

  Wil Wheaton

  Money, Stand By Me, Seven

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• A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

  Ovid

  Honesty, Men, Being Honest

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• I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth. I feel sorry for the men, too.

  Erma Bombeck

  Cute, College, Men

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.291, Open Road Media

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• Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Pride, People

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

  James M. Barrie

  Games, Play, Tennis

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Hurt, Boredom

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.

  Frank A. Clark

  Christian, Feelings, Helping

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

  Wayne Newton

  Feelings, Rooms, Feeling Sorry

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• No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Feelings, Needs

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

  Richard L. Evans

  Courage, Winning, Opportunity

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• Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Adversity, Opportunity

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  Never apologize for what you feel. It's like being sorry for being real.

  Lil Wayne

  Real, Inspiration, Apologizing

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• I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.

  Lou Henry Hoover

  Girl, Father, Hunting

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• I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Bible, Men, Wonder

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1911-1912”

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• Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.

  Etta James

  Song, Feelings, Artistic

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• If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

  Estelle Getty

  Memorable, Mean, Funny Marriage

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• During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Leader, Best Coaches

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• When I was born ... the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father ... I'm very sorry. We did everything we could ... but he pulled through.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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• I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry

  Norman Wisdom

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Norman Wisdom, William Hall (1992). “Don't laugh at me: an autobiography”, Vintage

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• The perfect family doesn't exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let's not talk about the perfect mother-in-law! It's just us sinners. A healthy family life requires frequent use of three phrases: "May I? Thank you, and I'm sorry" and "never, never, never end the day without making peace."

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Husband, Law

  "Pope Francis' top 10 most quotable quotes of the year" by Carol Glatz, www.catholicnews.com. February 28, 2014.

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• I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

  Samuel Johnson

  Communication, Tongue, Losing

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 18 September 1773

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• Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and climbed into the cockpit; I did this, however, to be able to say good-bye to the old dear; and I really felt dreadfully sorry to part with her. I get very attached to aeroplanes, and I am one of those people who think that they aren't so inanimate as we are told they are.

  Charles Rumney Samson

  Thinking, Bye, People

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• Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Retirement, Hate

  On Jeremiah Markland, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 161, n. 3 (10 October 1782)

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• You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like a shard of pottery, when His whole body is dissolved into the dust of death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like Jesus is going back on His commitment.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Commitment, Sacrifice

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• A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Marriage, Wedding Anniversary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.25, BookBaby

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