Nisio Isin (NisiOisiN) Quotes

There is nothing more pathetic than asking for an apology.

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• Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Asking
  • Still
  • Sell

• We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Apology
  • Civil Rights

• An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Devil
  • Remembered

• I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You tell me, have you ever seen a 'Whatever happened to' where they seemed anything but pathetic?

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Me
  • Always
  • Thanks

• You think my apology means I'm weak. But it doesn't. It means I am trying to learn how to be strong.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Apology

• It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Book
  • Simple
  • Apology

• That is an apology, not an explanation; and apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Apology

• Trump apologized for nothing, including the horrible tape, right? No apology.

  

  David Brock
  • Trump
  • Apology

• I have a no-apology policy.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Apology

• When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • Women
  • Color
  • Identity

• On behalf of everyone at the DNC, we want to offer a deep and sincere apology to Senator Sanders, his supporters, and the entire Democratic party for the inexcusable remarks made over email. These comments do not reflect the values of the DNC or our steadfast commitment to neutrality during the nominating process.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Party
  • Deep
  • Commitment

• There's never really been a true apology for slavery.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • True
  • Slavery
  • Apology

• GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apology?

  

  James Dobson
  • Apology

• DR JAMES DOBSON: No apology.

  

  James Dobson
  • Apology

• In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was 'with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful.' The press was busy printing money.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Good
  • Money
  • Apology

• Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Small

• You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me?

  

  Brian Tracy
  • True
  • Ideas
  • Judge

• you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Wanted
  • Asking
  • I Loved You

• Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have..." or "Sorry, but I just didn't..." They apologize while telling you that they were right all along, which is the opposite of an actual apology.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • People
  • Sorry
  • Apology

• The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Work
  • Why
  • Question

• Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And things always go wrong. We respond with apologies; we continue to apologize long after the event is forgotten - and even if it had no causal relation to anything we did to begin with.

  

  Nancy Chodorow
  • Long
  • Self
  • Apology

• On a day-to-day level, I love watching my kids accomplish the little things that seem trivial but are really milestones: seeing my son hit a baseball or watching my daughter draw something that actually looks like what she says she's drawing. Or hearing them say 'I love you.'

  

  Matt Lauer
  • She
  • Kids
  • Son

• There is nothing more pathetic than asking for an apology.

  

  Nisio Isin
  • Asking
  • Apology
  • Pathetic