Obliged Quote by Wally Lamb Download Open image ““...there was no shorthand for "I'm sorry." You were obliged to speak those two words.”” — Wally Lamb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Obliged Obliged Speak Shorthand Shorthand Sorry Sorry Obliged Two Words
“And there was no way to unsay words you'd blurted out, no matter how sorry you were.” — Terri Farley Copy Share Image
“You... what was that word you just used? Apologize? First 'please' and now 'apologize'? I think I need to sit down.” — Adrian Phoenix Copy Share Image
“I didn't ask anything—I hadn't the words. Instead I spoke the smallest one—the one I should have used more in my short and foolish… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Think first - you can apologize for hurtful words, but you can't take them back once spoken.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I never say 'sorry'. It's completely meaningless, and it doesn't change anything.” — Shay Savage Copy Share Image
“Sorry' is just a word… A word that acquires a little bit of strength when uttered by a heart, which believes in its power,… — Irina Serban Copy Share Image
“I’m so sorry,” I said again, though I knew they were the most useless words in the world.” — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
“You are not an apology, do not treat yourself like one; your lips are perfect for kissing, your hips do not spell 'sorry'.” — Azra T Copy Share Image
“No words for a long time. Which is fine, because even the most important ones-- I love you. I'm sorry. Forgive me? I'm here… — Huntley Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“Well, 'I'm sorry' is just a thing to say, you see. I'm trying not to be so apologetic and obsequious all the time. It's… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“By the day's end I realized that there were a zillion ways to apologize to someone, but none of them mattered if you never… — Jennifer Jabaley Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we want something to be true so badly that we convince ourselves that it is true.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“why would white dudes want to change things when they held all the cards?” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“And in taking on the subject of themselves-making themselves vulnerable to the unseen reader-they have exchanged powerlessness for for the power that comes with… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“People had always amazed him, he began. But they amazed him more since the sickness. For as long as the two of them had… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“So I got my stuff and the girl at the register puts these other things in my bag, too. Little free samples: gum and… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“Guess what?' I said. 'I have a psychic.' His head tilted questioningly, birdlike. A sidekick?” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“What I remembered about those seesaw rides was the way Thomas would get mad at me, midride, and evacuate. Send me crashing back down… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result. — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be… — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
“You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
