No More Apologies Quotes

#1. No more apologies! So we're poor! All right, we're poor! This is America! And America is one place in this sorry world where people Shouldn't have to apologize for being poor. The question in America should be, 'Is this guy a good citizen? Is he honest? Does he pull his own weight?

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. No more apologies," he says. "I don't want you to think I'm holding something over you. I'm not. This isn't a favor. This is just love.

Heather Cocks

#3. It depressed him to consider how much energy he had wasted, over the years, in the self-denying posture of apology. From now on, whatever else his life might hold, there would be no more apologies.

Richard Yates

#4. I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.

Dorothy Wordsworth

#5. When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

Idris Elba

#6. Every time you show your feelings, you apologize. Have you ever had an emotion in your life that you weren't ashamed of?

R. J. Anderson

#7. The hero in this novel lives a life by his own code with no apologies.

Kristen Ashley

#8. He bent forward and kissed me. He kissed me with promises that we never made to one another. He kissed me with apologies for things he never did. He kissed me with all that he was, and I kissed him back with everything that existed within me.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#9. What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

Nenia Campbell

#10. If only I had it in me to be all fierce, fearless and forthright instead of forever sprinkling my discourse with pitiful retractions, apologies and prevarications.

Anonymous

#11. Apologies have nothing to do with you. They are balloons in the sky. They may never land.

Anonymous

#12. Apology is pointless. Apologies are for when you forget something. Or bump into somebody. Apologies are for accidents. You can't apologise for something you chose to do. That's like apologising for being you.

Steven Camden

#13. I did learn something interesting [while at the Atlanta airport]. You have to be a member of the TSA in order to legally perform a cavity search. My apologies to the staff of Cinnabon, but you guys should really keep that extra frosting where the customers can find it.

Stephen Colbert

#14. Apologies; our cultural obsession with them isn't about actually being offended, or simply needing to hear, "I'm sorry." It's not really about right or wrong. It's about wanting to throw a rock in the dark and hear something break.

Jim Norton

#15. My book is extremely graphic. I make no apologies for it. But it is graphic only because I told the truth about what the Ripper did to his victims.

Bernard Schaffer

#16. Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

Julia Cameron

#17. It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P.G. Wodehouse

#18. Please accept my apologies, lass. I should nae have been so forward, but I've been wanting to kiss ye.

Victoria Roberts

#19. With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.

Amish Tripathi

#20. Apologies do not make good bandages.

Clementine Von Radics

#21. It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.

Celso Amorim

#22. I make no apologies for you. After all, each one of us is little more than the meager residue of the infinite unrealized possibilities of our lives.

Gregory Frost

#23. I believe, very strongly, that it is the responsible, adult, recreational, no apologies necessary, 'it just makes my music more fun,' recreational use of marijuana is a civil liberty.

Rick Steves

#24. Fuck the drug war. Dropping acid was a profound turning point for me, a seminal experience. I make no apologies for it. More people should do acid. It should be sold over the counter.

George Carlin

#25. Apologies, Mrs. Touchett intimated, were of no more use to her than bubbles, and she herself never dealt in such articles. One either did the thing or one didn't, and what one "would" have done belonged to the sphere of the irrelevant, like the idea of a future life or of the origin of things.

Henry James

#26. I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer, and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way. As president, that is exactly what I'll do.

Chris Christie

#27. I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.

Sienna Miller

#28. I don't want to be in some relationship that's just about trading apologies when things get hard. Doing that won't make it all OK, you know? So, no, I don't forgive you. But I fucking accept you, including all the shit you do that tests my patience. Because I love you.

Liora Blake

#29. Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

Tryon Edwards

#30. At first Ifemelu thought Kimberly's apologizing sweet, even if unnecessary, but she had begun to feel a flash of impatience, because Kimberly's repeated apologies were tinged with self-indulgence, as though she believed that she could, with apologies, smooth all the scalloped surfaces of the world.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#31. Fuck the ones who hurt you
Stop thinking about them,
Get on with your own life
They'll eventually come back with apologies
And you'll gladly accept them; as you keep growing with your life.

Nikki Rowe

#32. Writing for the love of writing. My muse makes no apologies under this pen name. ;)

Amanda Wylde

#33. Sincere apologies make deposits; repeated apologies interpreted as insincere make withdrawals. And the quality of the relationship reflects it.

Stephen R. Covey

#34. No excuses. No apologies. No Regrets

Brian Kinney

#35. It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

#36. Apologies aren't meant to change the past, they are meant to change the future.

Kevin Hancock

#37. More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

Greg LeMond

#38. With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

Jami Attenberg

#39. Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.

Ambrose Bierce

#40. I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

Meshell Ndegeocello

#41. Pain never apologizes.

Marty Rubin

#42. There comes a day that we become tired of hearing empty promises and insincere apologies; not just from others, but also from ourselves.

Steve Maraboli

#43. Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.

Sarah Dessen

#44. I'm sorry. Oh, what simple words are these!
I'm sorry. Lips should breathe them out with ease!
But nay, in barring up the way,
"I'll die first" are the words you say.
I'm sorry, woe is all pride guarantees.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#45. Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Tryon Edwards

#46. He actually looks very apologetic, but I know better than to trust the expression on a man's face. The only things worth trusting are actions, and so far he hasn't proven very trustworthy.

Colleen Hoover

#47. Apologies are seldom of any use.

Samuel Johnson

#48. Had I known you had pure, or what you thought were pure intentions, in that silly mind of yours, I wouldn't have tried to kill you."
Philip let out a bark of laughter. "Well, as far as apologies go, that wasn't half bad. Not every day a man comes in and apologises for wishing you dead.

Rachel Van Dyken

#49. Good point." Sophia said at last. "I'm not very good at saying sorry, but I apologize.

Chris Kurtz

#50. If apologies were for sale the world could have been full of rich people

Thabiso Monkoe