“How many Sundays – how many hundreds of Sundays like this – lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays i didn't wind my spring.”
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Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 1-10, p. 44
“I made a hurtful and thoughtless comment on Sunday when I said that "I wanted my life back."”
When I read that recently, I was appalled. I apologize, especially to the families of the 11 men who lost their lives in this tragic accident.
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“So let me say on the record, any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.”
2010s
Context: I want to make sure every House Republican is protected from some kind of dishonest Democratic ad. So let me say on the record, any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood. Because I have said publicly those words were inaccurate and unfortunate and I'm prepared to stand up and — When I make a mistake — and I'm going to on occasion — I want to share with the American people "that was a mistake" because that way we can have an honest conversation.
“I teach Sunday School, motherfucker.”
Interviewing Stanford University professor emeritus Dr. Philip Zimbardo, author of the book The Lucifer Effect. After an increasingly heated debate on the problem of theodicy, Colbert sets the record straight responding to Zimbardo's slightly sarcastically charged "Obviously you learned well in Sunday School". The Colbert Report http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=149094&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=%2Fmotherload%2F%3Flnk%3Dv%26ml_video%3D149094&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true (11 February 2008)
On the Roman Catholic Church
The New York Times interview (2005)
“I got the rebound and he tackled me. I know this is Sunday, but this is the wrong field.”
After being tackled by Lamar Odom during a game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics. Lamar Odom Suspended for Flagrant Foul on Ray Allen http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/01/01/lamar-odom-suspended-for-flagrant-foul-on-ray-allen/, January 1, 2008.
Dispatch from King to then-Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, commander of the 1st Marine Division, during the Battle of Guadalcanal in late August 1942. As quoted in Once A Marine: The Memoirs of General A.A. Vandegrift, U.S.M.C. (1964), p. 146
1940s
