Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

Bill Vaughan

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

Bill Vaughan

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

Bill Bradley

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

Lao Tzu

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Laura Schlessinger

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

Tonya David

Know from our heart that it's a forgiving heart. Forgiveness is everything. It's everything.

Sean Brady

It is gratifying to note how scriptural words like justice, peace, forgiveness have become the lingua franca of the peace process,

Blaise Pascal

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

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.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

Beeban Kidron

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

Bebe Neuwirth

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well

Beck

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.

Beck

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

Beck

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

Beck

I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.

Beck

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Beck

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.