Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Disraeli

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Archibald Alexander

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

Anthony Weiner

I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

Albert Einstein

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Mason Cooley

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

Douglas Horton

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Benjamin Franklin

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Demetri Martin

People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.

Demetri Martin

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

John Donne

Rebel and Atheist too, why murmur I, / As though I felt the worst that love could do?

Bede Griffiths

Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.

C. S. Lewis

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

C. S. Lewis

Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.

C. S. Lewis

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

C. S. Lewis

In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.

C. S. Lewis

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Carl Reiner

I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.

Carl Sagan

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

Joseph Cohen

recession fears are unwarranted for this year and the next.

John Given

Our record won't strike fear into people. But some of our losses have been to some pretty good teams. We're the kind of team that most don't want to see.

Mark Brown

Part of the reason that I watch hockey is to have a physical game, ... Maybe initially they'll fear a penalty, but sometimes it's worth it to get a good lick in.

Asahi Shimbun

Our fears have come true. To regain our trust, the U.S. must fundamentally review its safety standards.

Lutfullah Mashal

Rescue workers are trying to find survivors feared to have been trapped under the ruins.

John Sherry

Physicians told us that not being able to type quickly is a big fear.

Joel C. Rosenberg

Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'