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"I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living."
"The reason I gained so much weight in the first place and the reason I had such a sorry history of abusive relationships with men was I just needed approval so much. I needed everyone to like me, because I didn't like myself much."
"That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with "in" and emphasize it. Get me a jury and show me how you can say "In July" and I'll go down on you. That's just idiotic, if you'll forgive me for saying so. It's just stupid... "In July"; I'd love to know how you emphasize "In" in "In July". Impossible! Meaningless!"
"A being who, as I grew older, lost imagination, emotion, a type of intelligence, a way of feeling things - all that which, while it made me sorry, did not horrify me. But what am I experiencing when I read myself as if I were someone else? On which bank am I standing if I see myself in the depths?"
"No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry."
"I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole."
"The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name? Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I call you? Idris: I think you call me... Sexy? The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we're alone. Idris: We are alone. The Doctor: Oh. Come on then, Sexy."
"So why don't you tell him you're sorry?" Gaby suggested. "Uh... because he probably never wants to speak to me again?" "How do you know? Do you have a fifth sense too?" Scarlett sighed. "No. And I think that's sixth sense." "No, I don't see dead people. It's different."
"My Dad always told me ‘Flowers mean I’m sorry, chocolates mean I love you.’"
"It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time."
"I’m sorry,” he repeats again, too low for Raven and Tack to hear. “I’m sorry for everything."
"I’m sorry for everything.” Then he turns and pushes back into the woods, and he’s gone."
"Because?' I prompt 'Because I'm sorry, but I can't help it, and I really need to kiss you right now."
"I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind."
"Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself."
"It's so unattractive, I'm sorry."
"Henry: Well I'm sorry about your head though, but I thought you were one of them. Indiana: Dad, they come in through the doors."
"I'm sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence."
"I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain."
"Sorry, I'm not much of a cook."
