Apologize First Quotes

#1. I take it she didn't accept your apology?"

"Who says I gave an apology, or a reason to need one?"

"Because you're you, and on top of that, you're a man . . ." He salutes me and downs the rest of what's in his glass. "We always have to apologize first. It's the way it is.

Anna Todd

#2. I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

Eliot Spitzer

#3. After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

Hu Shih

#4. Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

Saint Augustine

#5. After I directed for the first time, I wanted to call every director I'd ever worked with and apologize. In television you are tasked with shooting 42 minutes, or whatever, in eight days. That's not a lot of time.

Michelle MacLaren

#6. Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.

Mark Steyn

#7. Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

Athanasius

#8. Nothing great was ever created without a great dream.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Tonight he was a firm adherent to the classic McCloud school of thought; plant bugs first, apologize later.

Shannon McKenna

#10. It's easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place.

Clifford Stoll

#11. The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.

Swami Vivekananda

#12. I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#13. If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

Erica Jong

#14. I focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the sunnah as our reference point does not mean that we depend for our ethics on 'Islam as opposed to the others'.

Tariq Ramadan

#15. It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012.

Nick Denton

#16. Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

Joy Browne

#17. I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian. If you take anything I'm saying too seriously, then you shouldn't be paying attention in the first place. If you find me offensive, don't follow me.

Chelsea Handler

#18. Little girls think their fathers will save them. Women know better.

Rafael Yglesias

#19. Tied round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words "DRINK ME" beautifully printed on it in large letters.

Lewis Carroll

#20. Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move ... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example

George S. Patton

#21. I scored a touchdown on the first reception I made in the NFL and spiked the ball. The instant I did, I felt horrible and couldn't wait for the game to end so I could call Coach Bryant and apologize. He said he didn't even notice, but I never spiked the ball again.

Ozzie Newsome

#22. What about a compromise? I'll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I'll apologize.

Rick Riordan

#23. Let's all put our weapons down," Piper said. "Coach, you first." Hedge clenched his jaw. "Just one thwack?" "No," Piper said. "What about a compromise? I'll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I'll apologize." "No!" Piper insisted. "Meh." Coach Hedge lowered his club.

Rick Riordan

#24. Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.

Shakira

#25. If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.

Michelle Shocked

#26. The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

Thaksin Shinawatra

#27. Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.

Katha Pollitt

#28. How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?

Mark Steyn

#29. America, I'm gonna shoot straight with you, I think I've wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time. I apologize for that.

Glenn Beck

#30. I do hope some of my work has a long lifetime. A piece that works out well this year may work out very well in twenty years' time as well, but I'm very much thinking about what's the right piece now, at this moment.

Judith Weir