Sorry But Quotes

#1. You are well within your rights to stand up, interrupt everyone around you and say, 'This is not who I am. This is not what I want. I'm sorry, but you've mistaken me for somebody else.

Iain S. Thomas

#2. Being not perfect is not about making mistakes and saying I'm sorry, but! its about learning from it and then being perfect for not making the same mistake again.

Saleem Durrani

#3. I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

Charles Olson

#4. I am sorry, but I cannot be friends with a goddess, because I have signed a contract with a devil.

Lelouch Vi Britannia

#5. A blanket could be used to express my condolences. I'm sorry to have to tell you I'm sorry, but that's life, you know?

Jarod Kintz

#6. I'm not really sorry. But I'm not absolutely unsorry.

John Fowles

#7. So, yes, I lied, And, believe me, I am so sorry. But I was so in love with you and I didn't know what to do about it and I didn't want to give you any reason not fall in love with me back

Jessica Love

#8. You can always say sorry but the real apology is when you hear the sadness in their voice and see the look in their eyes. And you realize that they have hurt themselves just as much.

Kid Cudi

#9. I'm sorry, but I just don't believe in your ... religion,

Robin Sloan

#10. Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. Don't call it sexism. Call it "manners" instead. When a woman blinks a little, shakes her head like Columbo, and says, "I'm sorry, but that sounded a little . . . uncivil," a man is apt to apologize. Because even the most rampant bigot on earth has no defense against a charge of simply being rude.

Caitlin Moran

#12. Then why are you here?" Emma demanded. "Oh, is this one of those missed-connections things? We met the other night, you felt a spark? Sorry, but I don't date trees."
"I am not a tree." Iarlath looked angry, his bark peeling slightly.

Cassandra Clare

#13. No." I tilted her chin up. "I expect you to live a damn good life. I expect you to listen to me when I tell you there has never been anyone but you. No one. Only you, always you, forever you. And I'm sorry, but I won't take back what I did." - Nixon

Rachel Van Dyken

#14. I'm sorry, but I stand by my decision. I am now a member of the elite club of people that have fought a professional team mascot. You sir, are not in that club.

Tucker Max

#15. We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.

Steve Yegge

#16. To those people who say, 'My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say, 'Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.' Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade-off.

Bill Maher

#17. I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

Stephen King

#18. Kids kill a show! It's, like, a fun concept when the character is pregnant, but then if a show runs for a while, I'm sorry, but it gets annoying when it starts to talk. You get a child actor in there, and unless that child actor is freakin' awesome, it's going to be annoying.

Eliza Coupe

#19. It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.

David Levithan

#20. If you expect others to think for you, then you expect others to live your life for you. And I'm sorry, but the only person I'll let live my life for me is my clone. He thinks like me, so I'm OK with him thinking for me.

Jarod Kintz

#21. I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.

William Bratton

#22. I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows.

Jim Butcher

#23. I feel as if the world is listening for my next thought. But I can't think of anything. Sorry, but I just can't think of anything.

Haruki Murakami

#24. Sorry, but the whole walking corpse epiphany kind of threw me off my game.

Rachel Vincent

#25. On Sharing
I'm sorry, but if your brother doesn't want you to play with his shit, then you can't play with it. It's his shit. If he wants to be an asshole and not share, then that's his right. You always have the right to be an asshole - you just shouldn't use that right very often.

Justin Halpern

#26. I'm sorry. No." Her mouth continued to move, too fast, pouring out a stream of
explanation and apology.
Jim didn't need to understand all the words. "Sorry, sorry, sorry, but no," they all said.

Bonnie Dee

#27. I would ask, 'Have you read '1984'? Have you read 'Brave New World'? If so, I'm sorry, but you read science fiction.'

Carrie Vaughn

#28. I'm sorry, but you just can't fit fabulous into a backpack.

Samantha Sotto

#29. I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

Larry Wall

#30. Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

Henry Ward Beecher

#31. Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.

Tite Kubo

#32. I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#33. I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is not a AAA nation.

Mark Steyn

#34. Scarlet realized that in the five years since last she'd seen him, she'd come to match her father's height. They stood eye to eye; she burning up on the inside, he frowning as though he wanted to be sorry but couldn't quite grasp the emotion.

Marissa Meyer

#35. We need you."
"I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore.

Ally Condie

#36. I'm sorry, but I have this fear that someday you're going
to
wake up a dried-out, bitter old hag with plenty of science awards
but no personal life whatsoever. And you'll sit there at night and
sob about
how you've wasted your life.

Robin Brande

#37. My in-ear Babelfish provides synopses of the passages rather than a running translation, but now and then the interpreter confesses, I'm sorry, but I have no idea what he just said. I'm not sure the author knew, either.

David Mitchell

#38. Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

Ewan McGregor

#39. I was so sorry, deep in my heart I was sorry, but all your "sorrys" are gone when a person dies. She was gone. Gone. That's why you have to say all your "sorrys" and "I love yous" while a person is living, because tomorrow isn't promised.

James McBride

#40. I'm so sorry for loving you, I'm so sorry ... But it was such a wonderful dream, my love, such a wonderful dream.

Melissa De La Cruz

#41. It's very hard for me to say I'm sorry ... but I do.

Joe Nichols

#42. She fit her hand around the curve of his whiskered jaw. "I'm sorry. But I knew you would not leave otherwise - "
"Damn right I would not have left," he said gruffly. "Don't you understand what you mean to me? You are everything. Never doubt that. My place is with you, only you.

Monica McCarty

#43. Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don't just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get to stop working in the middle of your life just because your prostate hurts? That's desertion.

Stephen Colbert

#44. I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir
but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.

John Steinbeck

#45. What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

Leo Durocher

#46. I want to grab him by the wrist and head back into the woods, tell these guys, sorry but I found him first.

Jandy Nelson

#47. And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?'
Esca said very simply, 'They will kill me.'
'I am sorry, but I do not think much of that plan.' Marcus said.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#48. All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.

Jon McGregor

#49. [Devina] "You know, Adrian, you ever get bored with being a Goody Two-shoes, you could come over to my side."
"Because you have cookies, right."
Those black eyes returned to his own. "And so much more."
"Well, I'm on a diet. Sorry - but thanks for the invite.

J.R. Ward

#50. I know I usually come here to tell you I'm sorry. But I think today I want to tell you that I'm going to be all right.

Rainbow Rowell

#51. I bet you thought I was Alison, didn't you? Well, sorry, but I'm not. Duh. She's dead.

Sara Shepard

#52. You may be sorry, but I'm proud of you." She looked up and saw her father beaming at her. "What?" "I said I'm proud of you." "I

Harper Lee

#53. I'm sorry but I will manage my anger when you manage your childishness.

Nina Ardianti

#54. Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me ... I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

Gabrielle Zevin

#55. I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

Oscar De La Renta

#56. I didn't need to be rescued."
"Sorry, but my sword outranks your ... " she glanced at my hand, "sock puppet.

Kelley Armstrong

#57. Sebastian simply shrugged once more, placed his hand over his mouth in an exaggerated motion, and then bowed, gesturing to Robert. Robert translated this as 'I'm deeply sorry, but having promised my cousin that I wouldn't say a word, I must now embarrass him as best as I can with gestures.

Courtney Milan

#58. America is like a dog. I'm sorry, but it is. It cannot understand actual words. It understands inflection. It understands fear. But you can't actually explain issues to a dog.

Bill Maher

#59. Can I just wrap up this whole line of conversation by saying I really don't give a shit whether you're upset? If you were actually hurt, or dead, then I'd say sorry. But you're not, so suck it up.

John Scalzi

#60. Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended.

Kevin DeYoung

#61. God always offers forgiveness," I said, softening my tone, "to those who are truly sorry. But sorry isn't a feeling, you understand. It's an action. A determination to make things right.

Phil Klay

#62. It's your Christmas present.
What is?
All this. The whole world. The houses, cars, streets, the wind... it's all yours. You can do what you like.
Sorry, but I'm not sure it's a good present. It's windy... ...there's a mist. It's so cold. And this world isn't that good.

Lukas Moodysson

#63. I hope that you are a disaster. I'm sorry, but I do. I hope that you are thunder and lightning. I hope you are a forest fire, I hope you kill the dead wood and burn off the rotting leaves. With the canopy gone, the sun can get in. You need new growth. I hope you're terrible and broken and perfect.

Joey Comeau

#64. I'm sorry, but you said 'suck,' and I'm immature.

S. Walden

#65. Be sad, be sorry - but don't shoulder it." We

E. Lockhart

#66. I'm sorry, but dragons don't come in pink.

Stephen Dunkley

#67. I'm sorry. but you could never tell the difference between the mood you were in, and me.

Pleasefindthis

#68. I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

James Whistler

#69. - run. Sorry, but I got to run. Sorry, Danny ole kid ole doc, but I got to run. It's sure been fun, you son of a gun, but I got to hurry, I got to run.

Stephen King

#70. I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.

Jessie Jones

#71. He tried to soften his mouth against hers, tried to tell her he was sorry, but she stayed frozen in his arms, as if she couldn't believe, after everything that had happened, that he thought he could break her heart and take a kiss too.

Amy Harmon

#72. To all the men in the bar: I'm not sorry, but her attention's on me. She

Eve Jagger

#73. I'm sorry, but Juicy Couture tracksuits and Ugg boots don't move me in any way, shape or form. I refuse to wear them. Modern fashion doesn't appeal to me; the 1950s were better in every way, don't you think?

Imelda May

#74. When consumers know things, they tend to make informed choices, and that could affect corporate profits. I'm sorry, but your right to know is always going to be outweighed by their right to hide it from you.

Bill Maher

#75. And then he wanted to say he was sorry, but just that sometimes he felt un-understandable and sometimes he worried when they bickered and she went a while without saying she loved him, but he restrained himself.

John Green

#76. I'm sorry but I've been on my own a long time. I don't know what to talk when I bump into other people.

Lesley Howarth

#77. Hey, heads up. The hottest doctor in town just came by and coerced me into telling him where you were. I folded like a cheap suitcase. Sorry, but he's hard to say no to. Don't be mad. I owe you a cupcake.

Jill Shalvis

#78. I'm sorry, but I can't imagine being an American icon! It would be pretty difficult to look at your face in the mirror and think of yourself as that without laughing and spitting toothpaste all over!

Jane Pauley

#79. What happened to our friendship? I really think it's our obligation as friends to be brutally honest and be frank with them and say, 'Look, I'm sorry, but your baby is fking boring.'

David Cross

#80. Sorry, but at first yeah all lie, but you forgot to say that the truth comes from the lies. (Especially for GreenHollyWood)

Deyth Banger

#81. What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

Laetitia Casta

#82. Most people just say 'sorry'. But handing over your ex for painful handling was so much better.

Suzanne Wright

#83. No you don't understand. I've been afraid my whole life.
So Sorry, but may I ask of what?
Of the future ... of my path..I've..I've been afraid of so many things.
Perhaps..Perhaps your days of being afraid are done.

John Shors

#84. I've been very self-indulgent and weird and I'm sorry. But I'd really like to die.

Frederick Busch

#85. I hate it when people use the word 'sorry' aggressively, as in, 'Sorry, but I hate you.' Sorry's an important word, and it shouldn't be abused.

Robert Webb

#86. You've picked up a rummy habit," James Banister said cordially as they approached one another. "Sort of a crouch. You look a bit ... well, I'm sorry, but you look a bit Victor Hugo, if you catch my drift. Would you like to adjourn to a cathedral or something?

Nick Harkaway

#87. I always find music guys writing about love. Think of something else for a change. I'm sorry, but it's been done, and it does work and it's good and all that, but I think something else would be nice.

Jesse Spencer

#88. I felt someone should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had absorbed. We should kiss them one by one & say, we are sorry, but something strong & lasting had to do this for May, & you are the chosen ones. God bless your rock hearts.

Sue Monk Kidd

#89. White folks are not going to come to see a bunch of guys with tattoos, with cornrows. I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks different, they're stupid.

Charles Barkley

#90. Bella: "I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm not."
Edward: "And I should feel sorry that you're not sorry, but I don't.

Stephenie Meyer

#91. Sorry, but despite how I look, I really love this planet.-Gintoki

Hideaki Sorachi

#92. I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.

Matthew Fox

#93. Lane, I will become attached to you. It happens with everyone. Something about my personality makes me latch on to people. First, it was my friend Tina, then Liam, and now you. I'm sorry, but I know it will happen. It already is happening. Now that we've had sex, I don't want you out of my sight.

K. Webster

#94. Sorry! But I'm not a game played when ever you want to play it!

Gina Karablieh

#95. (I'm sorry, but the guy breastfed until he was four. That's beyond being "old enough to ask for it" and practically into being "old enough to make your own breakfast.")

Dahlia Adler

#96. mouth as she continued to back up toward the house. "We shouldn't have done that. I'm sorry, but that can't happen

Jennifer McMurrain

#97. I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and all my poets look exactly like pianists

Oscar Wilde

#98. At the sunroom doors, he cast a glance back, and found Rhy looking at him with an expression that might have been I'm sorry, but also could have been fuck off, or at the very least we'll talk later.

Victoria Schwab

#99. - I'm sorry, but I don't know any stories.

Elizabeth Bear

#100. I am not sorry, but this has hurt my heart and spirit more than all the other trials, for being forsaken is worse than being killed. (Sept 5, 1881)

Nancy E. Turner