Sorry Quotes - Page 37

• I'm sorry about your Porsche." "I can replace the Porsche. I can't replace you. You need to be more careful." I was just sitting in your car!" Babe, you're a magnet for disaster.

  Janet Evanovich

  Car, Sitting, Porsche

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Eleven on Top”, p.72, Macmillan

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• Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

  Paul Valery

  Men, Giving, Feelings

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• We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and found myself dangling by one hand from a ledge fifty feet above the rocky surf. But I found another handhold and kept climbing. A minute later Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately, that something was my face. "Sorry," she murrmured. "S'okay," I grunted, though I'd never really wanted to know what Annabeth's sneaker tasted like.

  Rick Riordan

  Sneakers, Feet, Climbing

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Tyson- "Cash? Like...green paper?" Percy- "Yeah." Tyson- "Like the kind in duffel bags?" Percy-"Yeah, but we lost those bags days a-g-g--." "Tyson! How did you--" Tyson- "Thought it was a feed bag for Rainbow. Found it floating in sea, but only paper inside. Sorry.

  Rick Riordan

  Sea, Rainbow, Paper

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• You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Home, People, World

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “This Side of Paradise”, p.13, Pelekanos Books

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• America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Kids, America, Communist

  Allen Ginsberg, “America”

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• We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

  Randy Pausch

  Hands, Play, Cards

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.

  Mary Balogh

  Wine, Tomorrow, Ifs

  Mary Balogh (2003). “Slightly Wicked”, p.41, Dell

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• I'm so smart now. Everyone's always like 'take your top off'. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I'm not stupid.

  Paris Hilton

  Funny, Witty, Smart

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• And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.

  George W. Bush

  Hard Work, Trying, Towns

  "NPR Interview with President Bush". Interview wtih Juan Williams, www.npr.org. January 29, 2007.

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• I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.

  Shannon Hale

  Scarecrow, Said, Dummy

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• Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?

  Jacqueline Carey

  Facts, Enjoy, Dear

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.72, Macmillan

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• Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

  Rick Riordan

  Death, Mythology, Feels

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• Heart may still be the fire in hearth but I'm suddenly too cold to continue, and besides, there's no hearth here anyway and it's the end of June. Thursday. Almost noon. And all the buttons on my corduroy coat are gone. I don't know why. I'm sorry Hailey. I don't know what to do.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Heart, Fire, June

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies through the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry Another comes also picking flowers

  e. e. cummings

  Bullying, Flower, Eye

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.

  Libba Bray

  Mistake, People, Action

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1216, Delacorte Press

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• I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervous about?" "Look," I said. "I'm sorry about the band room. I hope they didn't kick you our or anything." "Nah. They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb." "Was it hard?" Annabeth asked.

  Rick Riordan

  Dumb, Monsters, Annabeth

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.178, Penguin UK

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• Have you tried to talk to her?" "What would you like me to say Bastian? OH, I'M SORRY, INEZ. I DIDN'T MEAN TO BITE YOU, MY FANGS SLIPPED.

  Lynsay Sands

  Mean, Like Me, Bites

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• A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Friendship, Real, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes - you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Falling In Love, Eye, Ephemeral

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• I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Littles, Desperate, Seems

  Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

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• J.D. cleared his throat and pushed the button on the intercom. “Uh, Payton, hi. It’s J.D.” Dead silence. Then another crackle. “Sorry. Not interested.” Cute. But J.D. persisted. Again with the button. “I want to talk to you.” Crackle. “Ever hear of a telephone, asshole?” Okay, he probably deserved that.

  Julie James

  Cute, Silence, Buttons

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.125, Penguin

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• its like you said? i lead my people-" forth!" zifnab carried on enthusiastically! " out of eygpt! out of bondage! across the desert! pillar of fire-" desert?" lenthan looked anxious again. "fire? i thought we were going to the stars!" sorry. wrong script" zifnab said

  Margaret Weis

  Stars, Fire, People

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• Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? "What duck?" AH. SORRY.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Ducks, Said

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.388, Random House

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• Once I got over the fact that my Latin teacher was a horse, we had a nice tour, though I was careful not to walk behind him. I'd done pooper-scooper patrol in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade a few times, and, I'm sorry, I did not trust Chiron's back the the way I trusted his front.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Horse, Nice

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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