Top 100 Quotes About Apologies
#1. Amen, sister, ... All apologies to Tom Cruise.
Libba Bray
#2. Last year's wishes, are this year's apologies, every last time I come home. I take my last chance to burn a bridge or two,I only keep myself this sick in the head
cause I know how the words get you
Fall Out Boy
#3. 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
#4. Proper apologies have three parts:
1) What I did was wrong.
2) I feel badly that I hurt you.
3) How do I make this better?
Randy Pausch
#5. Know who you are, and trust that you can know yourself no matter how inexperienced or scared you might feel. Then own the shit out of it and make no apologies, understand?
Rachael Wade
#6. Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made. Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.
Greg LeMond
#7. Apologies require taking full responsibility. No half-truths, no partial admissions, no rationalizations, no finger pointing, and no justifications belong in any apology.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#8. Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Henry A. Kissinger
#9. Apologies are totally inadequate,' shouted Uncle Wattleberry. 'Nothing short of felling you to the earth with an umbrella could possibly atone for the outrage. You are a danger to the whisker-growing public. You have knocked my hat off, pulled my whiskers, and tried to remove my nose.
Norman Lindsay
#10. Regrets and apologies are all very well, but there's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them. They're like brands.
John Boyne
#11. There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am.
Johnny Carson
#12. The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.
Augusten Burroughs
#13. A million dollars? A bit much don't you think?"
"Fuck you."
Caleb smiled, the self indulgent little shit. "My apologies," he mocked with a slight forward bow, "What I meant to say is: no pussy's that good. Though yours does come close.
C.J. Roberts
#14. I offer no apologies to those whom I may have rendered uncomfortable with my open and honest assertions. The truth is often harsh and uncomfortable to embrace.
Casper Odinson Crowell
#15. My apologies. I meant no offense." Except that his tone told her he didn't mean a word he'd just spoken.
Jean Oram
#16. The whole world seemed full of hurt feelings and apologies, endless selfishness and explanations. Wasn't there anything that anyone could understand about each other? Weren't there some hurt feelings that mattered more? Or did it all matter just as much, interminably, wound after wound?
Aoibheann Sweeney
#17. Good behavior in the first place is more important than theatrical apologies afterwards.
L.M. Montgomery
#18. You already said that," Sabine said, folding the wrapper back from her burger. "You said it a lot, actually. Which supports my theory that apologies are basically pointless. They don't fix anything, right? That's why I rarely bother.
Rachel Vincent
#19. I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values.
Barack Obama
#20. It's never going to be that way with us. Anything you say "stop" about, I respect. No apologies, no guilt on your part, no feeling like you've disappointed me. I want you to feel comfortable saying it. You want to get out of here now?.
Joey W. Hill
#21. That's right, I'm a reclusive pervert, and I make no apologies for it. And, giving the matter some thought, a reclusive pervert is much preferable to an extroverted pervert.
L. H. Cosway
#22. I shrugged. "I guess that guys who'd never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would," I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late.
Tammara Webber
#23. But an apology too - you think you're giving something, but you're not. You're really asking for something. You're asking for forgiveness, you're asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.
Deb Caletti
#24. I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.
Keith Urban
#25. I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago ... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.
Andrea Thompson
#26. K
Maybe one day when we're older and wiser, our paths will cross again and we can do it right. You're the love of my life. I can't believe I let that slip away. I hope one day it'll come back.
All of my love and apologies are forever yours, as am I.
S
Emily Trunko
#27. You are who you are. Make no apologies for it." He presses a kiss to my forehead. "I would change nothing about you.
Ruby Dixon
#28. Even if I could be forgiven, how long could I keep up the insincere apologies I made in pain, once I was back in my comfortable old high place. IV-98. For never can true reconcilement grow / Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep:
Joseph Lanzara
#29. 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
#30. Because you and Al have all the truth with you over there. Don't know what I'm talking about, I guess. My apologies to you who knows better.
Daniel Wallace
#31. What's retaliate?" asked Aphasia.
"It means, kill most of the enemy, and let the survivors apologies.
Paul Cornell
#32. Apologies, however late, were appreciated. The principle meant more than the timing
Callie Hunter
#33. Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.
Rachel Vincent
#34. Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror
Jonathan Lethem
#35. My domineering lover made no apologies for his caveman tendencies.
Sylvia Day
#36. My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
Adam Lambert
#37. Your apologies hang heavy like the skeleton of the man I once thought I'd marry. I loved you more than I knew what to do with most days. But I do not know you now. And this stranger you've become makes my stomach hurt.
Ari Eastman
#38. In no way was I intending to say, nor have I ever thought, that the men and women who defend our nation in uniform are anything but courageous and valiant, and I offer my apologies to anyone who took it wrong.
Bill Maher
#39. Apologies tended to give him migraines, which was why he avoided them. (Eoin)
Annie Nicholas
#40. Not all men are like you," she said. "Most are not so weak as to require the constant pleasures of the flesh the way you do." "True. I hope you can bear with me, for I feel that a bout of weakness is coming on. My humble apologies.
Ariel Atwell
#41. I think it may have been Tom Wolfe (if it wasn't, my apologies, Tom, and my apologies to whoever it was) who said in print once, 'David Carradine lives the life that Hunter Thompson only writes about.'
David Carradine
#43. There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
Mark Twain
#44. All apologies for getting most of your fortune buried under shit. I hope we can all still be friends.
Scott Lynch
#45. Of course, apologies are rarely acceptable to true believers - or to anyone who believes in *pure* good, or in pure evil.
John Irving
#46. You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.
Ike Barinholtz
#47. I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.
Maya Angelou
#48. Tracy Morgan apologizes for his homophobic rant, still no apologies for the sketch about the guy living under the street.
Andy Kindler
#49. I'm not good with hospitals. The endless buildings, trees dotted around like apologies, and inside, it's job functions you can't understand and that air of incomprehensible busyness. Curtained-off beds and death settling like falling snow.
Harry Bingham
#50. I'd never known that
anyone could kiss in English, kiss in apologies.
Karen Chance
#52. The only bearable thing about being human is that you can change, the second you feel like. Get it through your head that you changed, and cut yourself some slack before you fucking choke to death from all the apologies in your throat.
C.M. McKenna
#53. History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.
Albert Pollard
#54. Dedicated to: you.
I got you wrong in the beginning and you have my apologies.
It's just so like you that you stepped in anyway, and saved not only him, but also me in this endeavour.
J.R. Ward
#55. I always thought saying sorry was more about alleviating
guilt, that apologies were designed for the mouth, not for
the ears.
Swati Avasthi
#56. What does it take to delete the past? A thousand apologies?
A million regrets?
A litany of prayers?
If I shouted them, would you hear? If I whispered them, would you believe? If I fell at your feet, would you forgive? If I asked, would you start again?
A.L. Jackson
#57. Girls want flowers and candy, they go for the nice business men. They want a good solid fucking that can make them see the face of god, they come to men like me. I make no apologies about being who I am.
Jessica Gadziala
#58. But the king was frowning. "I expected you a month ago."
Aedion actually had the nerve to shrug. "Apologies. The Staghorns were slammed with a final winter storm. I left when I could."
Every person in the hall held their breath.
Sarah J. Maas
#59. If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.
Evan Esar
#60. Fletcher had always said that apologies were just empty words, and that actions were all that really mattered in the end.
Jennifer Estep
#61. It is said that insincere apologies can be detected while heart-felt apologies melt away all grievances, anger and hatred. Felt with all my heart I'm sooo sorry Apologies Sorry Soz so so So Sorry
John Walter Bratton
#62. Romeo gritted his teeth and let the wind hit his face. Believe it, he told himself. Life with this woman will be without apologies.
Barry Gifford
#63. Apologies are only words until they are backed up with actions.
Catherine Bybee
#64. Apologies have more power than most of us realize to restore strained relationships, free us from vengeful impulses, and create possibilities for growth.
John Kador
#65. Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action.
Stella Young
#67. 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
#68. To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.
Carolyn Wells
#69. Sometimes friendship means not having to say anything. Thank yous and apologies can sometimes get lost, but that doesn't mean they're unexpressed," murmured Hermione.
Bex-chan
#70. I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
Rick Warren
#71. The church doesn't seek apologies and we don't give them.
Dallin H. Oaks
#72. Apologies weren't welds; they were just an admission that something had been broken.
Hugh Howey
#73. I was a snowboard instructor, I was a bouncer in a nightclub, I was a whitewater river guide for many years. I worked as a teacher. I make no apologies for a very varied set of life experiences.
Justin Trudeau
#74. I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.
Peter Greenaway
#75. Ladies and dogs," said Jeffrey, "we are about to perform 'Fanfare for the Uncommon Seal.' " "With apologies to Aaron Copland,
Jeanne Birdsall
#76. Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.
Ibrahim Babangida
#77. What will it do to Jimmy's state of mind if he opens his eyes and sees three of his former beloveds bending over him like the three Fates? Demanding his everlasting love, his apologies, his blood in a cat food saucer?
Margaret Atwood
#78. Yep, ouch. He and apologies didn't get along.
Larissa Ione
#80. She sat down next to him, took one of his cigarettes, listened to his apologies. He was distraught, of course: he was just the kind of idiot who could only understand what things meant by doing them first.
Nick Hornby
#81. Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.
Donalyn Miller
#82. My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of this festival, we are sorry for these awful circumstances and you can be certain this will not defeat us.
Blake Judd
#83. There are occasions on which all apologies are rudeness.
Samuel Johnson
#84. You are a woman. Skin and bones, veins and nerves, hair and sweat. You are not made of metaphors. Not apologies, not excuses.
Sarah Kay
#85. If Blake thought she was going to be some meek, mealy-mouthed
pushover grateful for his dick and his non-apologies, he obviously didn't know what it took to make a room full of tenth graders pay attention.
Rebecca Brooks
#87. The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
Bob Moawad
#88. Apologies often cannot undo pain; but they can acknowledge it. And part of the cruelty of bullying is that the bruises it leaves are on the inside - it's a hidden form of violence, shrouded by shame.
Mathew N. Schmalz
#89. Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.
Randall Terry
#90. No apologies. I could kiss you right now. Judging by the look in his chocolate-brown eyes, he meant it.
Katie McGarry
#92. An endless, meaningless string of apologies signals a failure to change one's own behavior. What matters is not whether the person was authentic or "really meant it" in those passionate expressions of remorse. All that counts is whether that person follows through so there is no repeat performance.
Anonymous
#93. One of the challenges of the movie is there are no apologies or excuses.
John Landis
#94. Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.
Max Lucado
#95. A great book is a homing device
For navigating paradise.
A good book somehow makes you care
About the comfort of a chair.
A bad book owes to many trees
A forest of apologies.
J. Patrick Lewis
#96. Apologies are a dime a dozen. I don't need an apology. What I need is sincerity.
J.R. Richardson
#97. You'll learn one day that real apologies don't come with a BUT in the middle.
Jordan Sonnenblick
#98. I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
Jack Vance
#99. 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
#100. There was no going back. Apologies weren't welds; they were just an admission that something had been broken. Often between two people.
Hugh Howey
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