Top 100 Quotes About Apologies
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Writing for the love of writing. My muse makes no apologies under this pen name. ;)
Amanda Wylde
#6. Sincere apologies make deposits; repeated apologies interpreted as insincere make withdrawals. And the quality of the relationship reflects it.
Stephen R. Covey
#8. 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
#9. Apologies aren't meant to change the past, they are meant to change the future.
Kevin Hancock
#10. More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.
Greg LeMond
#11. With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.
Jami Attenberg
#12. 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
#13. 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
#15. 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
#16. Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.
Sarah Dessen
#17. 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
#18. Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
Tryon Edwards
#19. 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
#21. 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
#22. Good point." Sophia said at last. "I'm not very good at saying sorry, but I apologize.
Chris Kurtz
#23. If apologies were for sale the world could have been full of rich people
Thabiso Monkoe
#24. Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.
Ambrose Bierce
#25. I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.
Dorothy Wordsworth
#26. 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
#27. The hero in this novel lives a life by his own code with no apologies.
Kristen Ashley
#28. 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
#29. What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?
Nenia Campbell
#30. 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
#31. Apologies have nothing to do with you. They are balloons in the sky. They may never land.
Anonymous
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.
Julia Cameron
#37. 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
#38. Please accept my apologies, lass. I should nae have been so forward, but I've been wanting to kiss ye.
Victoria Roberts
#39. 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
#41. It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.
Celso Amorim
#43. God, I love spending time with you." His smile eases me. "Don't get mad at me, but I'm going to say something and I have no apologies for saying it." I raise my eyebrows in curiosity. "You look fucking hot in that bikini.
Jeannine Colette
#44. No apologies. No matter what happens, I will never, not in a thousand tragic outcomes, ever regret loving you.
Sara Raasch
#45. Writing about sex is not as personally revealing as one might think, because like anything else you write about, the words are not the deed. I have not done those words, I have done and felt private things for which words such as "sex" and "lust" are only poor apologies.
Doreen Baingana
#46. Everything that happens with me gets made out to be a fiasco, but I have every right to do everything I've ever done. I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.
Fiona Apple
#47. 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
#48. now and it mustn't be broken under any circumstance. There was so much yet to be said, but it would all come in good time. So many meaningless apologies. So many strained explanations. Promises
Stefan Ahnhem
#49. You really shouldn't sneak up on people in the dark, sir. It isn't gentlemanly." He responded quickly, the deep tenor of his voice sweeping over her. "My apologies. Of course, one might argue that lurking in the darkness isn't exactly ladylike.
Sarah MacLean
#50. Sorry, I should have warned you. Apologies are the keystone of an enduring relationship. Failing to apologize for mistakes, or getting onto a treadmill of belittling insults, is a bad warning sign. So far we've avoided it, but .
Charles Stross
#51. Wow," Miranda said, "You'd better be careful Della. In the last few days, I think you've used up your vampire quota of apologies for the next ten years."
"Kiss my apologetic ass!" Della snapped.
C.C. Hunter
#52. A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers have made us such flawed husbands.
Pat Conroy
#53. It was a trap after all," Alric said. He turned to Royce. "My apologies for doubting your sound paranoia.
Michael J. Sullivan
#54. Salty tears stream down my face - coating my lips as I mutter senseless apologies for so many things. So many irreversible things.
Morpheus peels the vines off and lifts me, cradling me to his chest.
A.G. Howard
#55. 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
#56. Allow others to give you loving care. Receive without guilt or apologies.
Doreen Virtue
#57. The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.
Criss Jami
#58. I was wrong to insult you, and not only because you are my hosts. I am afraid that I mistook kindness for weakness. My apologies. I stand - only with your aid - profoundly corrected.
Beth Fantaskey
#59. anthrapologize FW 151.7 v. Express regret or apologize for the science of man or anthropology. So many mistakes, unintentional and sometimes not, have been made in the study of human origins and development, especially racial, along with customs and beliefs, that some apologies are needed.
Bill Cole Cliett
#60. When you heart is ablaze with the love of God, when you love other people - especially the ripsnorting sinners - so much that you dare to tell them about Jesus with no apologies, then never fear, there will be results.
Catherine Marshall
#61. If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government's attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived.
Els Borst
#62. I have been tied up, my apologies, Abigail Miller." He chuckled deeply at his corny joke and I would have rolled my eyes, but considering he just took an epic fall, I let him have this one.
Ashlan Thomas
#63. I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail.
George W. Bush
#65. and it never occurs to me
that you are neither angel nor devil
but merely human
like me.
(and I am very sorry
for that)
Tah The Trickster
#66. I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts ... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .
William Westmoreland
#67. Sorry' isn't a synonym for 'guilty.' It's a way to say you're listening.
Martina Boone
#68. I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.
Lee Kuan Yew
#70. Darlin I am sorry, please.
No Knox, get out! you know what they say about apologies?
No,
They are better said with chocolate!
Knox & Bailey, Scarred Hearts
Elizabeth Kelly
#71. Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.
David Deida
#72. When you're a poet
you can dish out whatever's
on your mind and you don't have to
apologize for it
Shannon Lynette
#73. We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.
Georg Brandes
#74. I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.
Aaron Burr
#75. With apologies to Judy Garland and Cole Porter, all the world does NOT love a clown. John Wayne Gacy might have been the final nail in the coffin in terms of anyone associating clowns with funny (if a bunch of clowns die, do they all fit into one coffin?)
Christopher Lombardo
#76. I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#77. The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that's all there's is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
Vernon Howard
#78. I see you are still unnerved by my presence," the Curator noted. He was still smiling. "My apologies.
S.G. Night
#79. I carefully choose people in my life and if you are not happy with it, then its your call to be angry, broken, disappointed and lose sleep over my choice, judgement & decision ... no apologies.
Uzoma Nnadi
#81. When something feels real, you don't make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.
Rihanna
#82. Sorry's not good enough. When something's broken, sorry can never bring it back.
Kenneth Eade
#83. Though our childhood abuse left us feeling someone ought to make reparation to us, if we wait a lifetime for that, we may never receive what we need. We choose instead to face the idea that from now on, we are going to take responsibility for caring for ourselves.
Maureen Brady
#84. I think we each have a certain number of unnecessary apologies, which we willingly dish out before we realize it's time to stand and fight. I may still have two or three left.
Joyce Rachelle
#86. It is either all of Christ or none of Christ! I believe we need to preach again a whole Christ to the world - a Christ who does not need our apologies, a Christ who will not be divided, a Christ who will either be Lord of all or will not be Lord at all!
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#88. Charles realized that if he were going to apologize to Chrestomanci, he had better do it at once. He turned around to say it. But the folds had already rippled flat and nothing was the same anymore ...
Diana Wynne Jones
#89. I almost apologized again, but apologies were really like wishes. There was an abundance of both in my life, and neither really made a difference.
J. Lynn
#90. Excuses satisfy no one and apologies make everyone uncomfortable
Robert Greene
#91. I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies.
Tommy Kirk
#92. with, "Can I hug you?" I wrap my arms around him and for a solid minute, our bodies talk. There are apologies. And questions. And answers. And promises. When
Kim Holden
#93. Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?
Daniel Berrigan
#94. Saying sorry too much is an anchor on your upward mobility.
Aimee Cohen
#95. A truly humble apology works to part storm clouds, calm rough seas, and bring on the soft lights of dawn; it has the power to change a person's world.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#96. And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books ... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.
Julianna Baggott
#97. The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.
Tim Cahill
#98. An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them it is a means to an end, and quite often at your expense.
Gary Hopkins
#99. I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone ... it's a joke!
Kathy Griffin
#100. Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
Kurt Vonnegut
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