Quotes About Apologizing

#1. 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

#2. [ ... ]but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.

Karin Slaughter

#3. When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.

Charles Spurgeon

#4. Some days I am more wolf than woman, and I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.

Nikita Gill

#5. Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It's not personal, it's business.

Katharine Weymouth

#6. Comics who grew up surviving their childhood by being able to be the first one to make the joke about their weight or their hairy arms - like me - whatever they're insecure about, whatever they're apologizing for, that becomes their strength.

Sarah Silverman

#7. I really wish you hadn't said sorry for it. Because apologizing means regretting.

Estelle Maskame

#8. While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it's just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to.

Donna Lynn Hope

#9. There are things that can be fixed with an apology and things that can't.

Otani Lovely Complex

#10. It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.

Joel Stein

#11. It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that's already come true.

Beth Revis

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

Chris Kurtz

#13. Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

Tyler Kent

#14. I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.

India.Arie

#15. I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.

Albert Einstein

#16. I didn't need one so pissed at his ex-wife he'd make me fall in love with him before apologizing for leading me on. He wanted to hurt women, and nothing froze my creative juices like heartache.

C.D. Reiss

#17. I apologize for apologizing."
"Thank you.

Rick Riordan

#18. President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it.

Kevin Madden

#19. 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

#20. [perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.

William Westney

#21. But I'm no good at apologizing. I always end up making it worse. I'll say, "I'm sorry," and I'll be all sweet, and then once I'm forgiven, I'll say, "But you really did start it.

Rainbow Rowell

#22. Achieving true sobriety goes beyond abstinence. it's also about healing your soul, apologizing for damage you did to other, and seeking forgiveness.

Lou Gramm

#23. I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

Robert Plant

#24. I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.

Dizzy Gillespie

#25. I'm apologizing. For whatever I did. For whatever the guy who hurt you did. For the JFK assassination or the botched moon landing. Take your pick." ~Cain, Ghost of You

Kelly Moran

#26. Comedy is truth. We should not apologize for it.

Joan Rivers

#27. Japan is formally apologizing and admitting the state was responsible for the system of comfort stations or brothels for soldiers in which mostly teenage girls were expected to service 60 to 70 men a day. That is from a U.N. report.

Elise Hu

#28. We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

Rick Perry

#29. If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult ... I apologize.

Edward Abbey

#30. I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.

Aviva

#31. The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.

Criss Jami

#32. I'm her fucking man, so you better start apologizing before you become her dead brother.

Aly Martinez

#33. To be able to say 'sorry' to a woman- a sister, or a mother, is a most helpful thing, whether sorry or not. Still, for the sake of peace and gentleness at home just 'Sorry'which doesn't bind you to anything---but it turns away wrath! And soreness! And is like sunshine and hurts no one.

Catherine Bailey

#34. I have nothing definite to apologize for; I'm just sorry about everything in general.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#35. For as long as I could remember, I had been apologizing for existing, for trying to be who I was, to live the life I was meant to lead.

Meredith Russo

#36. In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman.

Georgette Mosbacher

#37. You just said you were sorry."
...
"I was only apologizing," he said stiffly, "for startling you. The applause was to compliment you on the improvement in your life-saving techniques since the last time you-

Meg Cabot

#38. In America, we celebrate success. We don't apologize for success.

Mitt Romney

#39. Never apologize on stage. Most people never notice when you make a mistake or if you are having a bad show.

Tristan Prettyman

#40. If you catch yourself apologizing and then using the word but, stop dead in your tracks and back up. That little conjunction should be like a blinking red light, indicating that you are not taking ownership.

Michael Hyatt

#41. When we apologize we end our struggle with history.

John Kador

#42. I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician that I am without apologizing.

Irene Cara

#43. Oh, how the clouds stumbled in and assembled stupidly in the sky.
Great obese clouds.
Dark and plump.
Bumping into each other. Apologizing. Moving on and finding room.

Markus Zusak

#44. Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Benjamin Disraeli

#45. Who cares who's right or wrong when the last word is a kind apology?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#46. Women who live the life of their dreams don't get there by being dainty and darling. They demand what they want and they do what it takes to make it happen. That could mean breaking a few rules, a few hearts, and a few habits along the way, especially the habit of apologizing for who you are.

Laurie Sue Brockway

#47. I just want to apologize in advance that I don't have enough subpoenas for all of you.

Preet Bharara

#48. I hear the unmistakable sound of glass breaking and I start apologizing to no one, trying to pick it up again, but I can't.
I can't get my hands to work because they're too cold.

Courtney Summers

#49. She looked so cute wen she was apologizing that Helen couldn't even pick up a grudge, let alone carry one.

Josephine Angelini

#50. I think fitting in is highly overrated. I'd rather just fit out ... Fitting out means being who you are, even when people insist that you have to change. Fitting out means taking up space, not apologizing for yourself, and not agreeing with those who seek to label you with stereotypes.

Golda Poretsky

#51. I begin, then, with some remarks about 'the meaning of a word.' I think many persons now see all or part of what I shall say: but not all do, and there is a tendency to forget, or to get it slightly wrong. In so far as I am merely flogging the converted, I apologize to them.

J.L. Austin

#52. Everybody knows I'm impatient. I don't have to apologize for it. I'm too old for that.

Dennis Green

#53. 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

#54. Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.

Alice Sebold

#55. Catholic sex is twenty minutes of pleading and whining (Vatican-approved foreplay), thirty seconds of involuntary shuddering and an hour of apologizing to God.

Lionel Fisher

#56. In those early centuries of Christianity,
Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers
of darkness and undo the works of the devil, and it lived in holy triumph.

John G. Lake

#57. Whether they are accepted or not isn't important. What is important is the act of apologizing, the act of admitting fault, the act of asking for forgiveness.

James Frey

#58. My mouth dries up. I know I am not apologizing for the picture. I am sorry for being there in the first place.

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

#59. Now is not the time, he sternly reminded his cock. I'm busy apologizing to my assistant.

Jessica Clare

#60. MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended
including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.

Janet Jackson

#61. Saying sorry too much is an anchor on your upward mobility.

Aimee Cohen

#62. You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either

Gene Stallings

#63. 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

#64. Perhaps, after all, the most beautiful words in the language are I'm sorry.

Christopher Buckley

#65. A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.

Judith Martin

#66. We need to get women to the point where they aren't apologizing. Its time to take ownership in our success.

Tory Burch

#67. It is easier to apologize than to get permission.

Grace Hopper

#68. I apologize for my wild imagination.

Bert Cooper

#69. You don't know me well enough to know that I spend half my life saying stupid things and the other half apologizing for them, said Tedros.

Soman Chainani

#70. Everyone says apologizing works, but it never really does. Not quickly enough anyway.

Sara Barnard

#71. I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

Stevie Nicks

#72. I felt like, in the recent past, people have been apologizing for Superman, a little bit, for his costume, for his origins, and for the way he fits into society.

Zack Snyder

#73. I'm not apologizing for what I did. I'm apologizing for what I didn't do.

Jennifer Tilly

#74. I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great

Carlos Mencia

#75. Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.

Jose N. Harris

#76. We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.

Rick Perry

#77. You're apologizing? Seriously, what happened to you? Have you been taken over by a pod person?

Dianne Duvall

#78. To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your "Core Attachments," means apologizing for your very existence.

Walter Kirn

#79. This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

Dorothy Parker

#80. If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong.

Kate Morton

#81. And certainly there are many speakers whom I'd like to see do more trembling, more unknowing, more apologizing.

Maggie Nelson

#82. I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.

Mason Cooley

#83. The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.

Peter King

#84. Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#85. Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

Nellie L. McClung

#86. She'd never mastered the talent for apologizing, but she appreciated it in other people.

Terry Pratchett

#87. It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time,

Mark Hoppus

#88. Talk about your failures without apologizing.

Brene Brown

#89. Before the code, women on screen took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, held down professional positions without apologizing for their self-sufficiency, and in general acted the way many of us think woman acted only after 1969.

Mick LaSalle

#90. On a trip to Israel, Sarah Palin asked the Israelis why they're apologizing all the time. They responded saying, 'Because we told everyone Tina Fey was coming.'

Conan O'Brien

#91. I resign myself to apologizing to the miniature goth monster.

Lauren Layne

#92. I've heard attacks were made on coalition forces because of those. I apologize to the families of those who lost loved ones or were injured because of the photos.

Lynndie England

#93. His nervous eyes watched me above his words, apologizing for the ways the excuses weren't right even as he couldn't stop presenting them.

Darin Strauss

#94. To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize.

Newt Gingrich

#95. All of us need to stop apologizing for having been to hell and come back breathing

Clementine Von Radics

#96. Id done more apologizing in the past week than a politician with a crack pipe and a sex addiction.

Kristin Walker

#97. Form and content must never apologize for each other.

Scott McCloud

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

Rick Riordan

#99. Inventing was easier than apologizing. It least it was easier to invent excuses.

Jake Lingwall

#100. I'm sorry, but you're kinda losing me here. I'm happy to keep apologizing, but I do need to know what I'm apologizing for.

Mira Grant