Bob Morley Quotes

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

Changing course is never easy.

I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day.

I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

The pendulum will swing back.

I know that in my public life I fell below the standards that I had set myself... I have seen what is wrong but not done enough to put it right. I have been more critical than correct.

I wrote an apology for the harm I'd caused, but I also knew that an apology could never undo any of it.

I think, hey, everybody has a right to change their mind.

Not only in the Octagon, but also in life, sometimes I have to take two steps back to take one step forward.

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

What a way to pay a man back for helping you. Gah, I suck as a human being.’ (Shahara)

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

No use wishing now for any other sin.

...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.

I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!

I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.