Stiff Apology Quotes

#1. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design." - Erik Spiekermann, graphic designer When

Marc Stickdorn

#2. We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

Emanuel Cleaver

#3. If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive.

Clive James

#4. Joy is innermost peace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.

Edsger Dijkstra

#6. All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

Eyvind Kang

#7. Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

Seamus Heaney

#8. It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

Clive Bell

#9. There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

Giacomo Casanova

#10. Doesn't the seventeenth-century use of the measurement yard for penis strike you as a bit of an exaggeration, unless the yard then was not the yard now?

Siri Hustvedt

#11. 4.04 APOLOGY
A second insult be just a stiff apology,
As the first be when hurt was the party;
Damages for aggrieved no medicine be,
But healing from hurt - the desire only.
[38] - 4

Munindra Misra

#12. There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong ... A stiff apology is a second insult.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#13. Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

Heinrich Mann

#14. Giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

Margaret Halsey

#15. Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build from a vision practically anything; fundamentally it is a human, creative act.

Jeffry A Timmons

#16. I feel a smile sweep across my face, remembering all the light showers, the dark showers, picking up rocks and finding spinning planets, days with thousands of pockets, grabbing moments like apples, hopping fences into forever.

Jandy Nelson

#17. I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to childhood - collecting used keys.

Micah Lexier