Stand Corrected Quotes

#1. Sorry, Bill. I just have this awful vision of being p-peeled like an onion, looking for the seeds."
He grinned. "Onions don't have seeds, Cordelia."
"I stand corrected," she said dryly.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. I stand corrected. Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell,

Rachel Caine

#3. Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan.
Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus.
Cordelia: I stand corrected.
Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.

Mutant Enemy Joss Whedon

#4. I stand corrected. Yours is a far superior arbitrary system of governance.

A. Lee Martinez

#5. I feel like I'm wearing orthopedic shoes, because I stand corrected.

Bill Maher

#6. Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

William Safire

#7. Do you imagine
" Mr. Lorry had begun, when Miss Pross took him up short with:
"Never imagine anything. Have no imagination at all."
"I stand corrected; do you suppose
you go so far as to suppose, sometimes?"
"Now and then," said Miss Pross.

Charles Dickens

#8. I've always thought having a kid that played soccer would be the worst punishment. After watching 3 min of water polo I stand corrected.

Daniel Tosh

#9. We will never know everything. But I think if we can learn within the next few decades to face the danger we all are in, I believe there will be tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions, of human beings working wherever they are to do something good.

Pete Seeger

#10. Holding my camera, freezing, and a mile from flames that could burn me alive, I'd finally found what I didn't know I was looking for.

Jamie McGuire

#11. My dad always said to go for my hobby and used to commend me for my excellent judgement so i try to do the similar for my children.

Heather McDonald

#12. Rain is Nature's way of telling us to go slowly because the roads will soon be wet.

Hermester Barrington

#13. I shall answer all the questions you are afraid to ask me openly. Do I wish to pay my workers more than their services are worth to me? I do not. Do I wish to sell my product for less than my customers are willing to pay me? I do not. Do I wish to sell it at a loss or give it away? I do not.

Ayn Rand

#14. So with science, it's original idea was to ignore the spiritual or nebulous side of reality and to strictly work on concrete things. Say there's a brick which we cut it in half and then see there's two half's of a brick. If we keep cutting we can then see there's particles and so on and so forth.

Brad Warner

#15. Goddammit, Pen!" Lightning lit him from behind. "That's not happening. And if you ever use magic on me again without my permission, we're done. You owe me a fucking apology for last time.

Ellen Connor

#16. Ah hears tings which Ah don' like at all. Cain't say much. Get mahself 'n plenty trouble. But yuh all want to watch yo step plenty good. Yassuh.

Ian Fleming

#17. A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.

Lynn Coady

#18. Discontented women dream of being rescued by Prince Charming. Discontented men dream of finding a horny blond in the back seat ofa taxi.

Mason Cooley

#19. Sometimes curiosity is a poison, not only for those who drink it but for everyone around it

G. Norman Lippert

#20. I was wrong to insult you, and not only because you are my hosts. I am afraid that I mistook kindness for weakness. My apologies. I stand - only with your aid - profoundly corrected.

Beth Fantaskey

#21. Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.

Albert Brooks

#22. The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#23. National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

Samuel Smiles

#24. I agree with what the Chairman Greenspan said whatever it is that he did say.

Robert Rubin