Top 100 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. Some days I am more wolf than woman, and I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.
Nikita Gill
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I really wish you hadn't said sorry for it. Because apologizing means regretting.
Estelle Maskame
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#11. President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it.
Kevin Madden
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
Robert Plant
#15. I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.
Dizzy Gillespie
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.
Aviva
#19. I'm her fucking man, so you better start apologizing before you become her dead brother.
Aly Martinez
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. She looked so cute wen she was apologizing that Helen couldn't even pick up a grudge, let alone carry one.
Josephine Angelini
#28. 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
#29. Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
Alice Sebold
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Now is not the time, he sternly reminded his cock. I'm busy apologizing to my assistant.
Jessica Clare
#35. We need to get women to the point where they aren't apologizing. Its time to take ownership in our success.
Tory Burch
#36. 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
#37. Everyone says apologizing works, but it never really does. Not quickly enough anyway.
Sara Barnard
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. I'm not apologizing for what I did. I'm apologizing for what I didn't do.
Jennifer Tilly
#41. Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.
Jose N. Harris
#42. 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
#43. You're apologizing? Seriously, what happened to you? Have you been taken over by a pod person?
Dianne Duvall
#44. To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your "Core Attachments," means apologizing for your very existence.
Walter Kirn
#45. 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
#46. If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong.
Kate Morton
#47. And certainly there are many speakers whom I'd like to see do more trembling, more unknowing, more apologizing.
Maggie Nelson
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. She'd never mastered the talent for apologizing, but she appreciated it in other people.
Terry Pratchett
#51. It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time,
Mark Hoppus
#52. Talk about your failures without apologizing.
Brene Brown
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. I resign myself to apologizing to the miniature goth monster.
Lauren Layne
#56. 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
#57. All of us need to stop apologizing for having been to hell and come back breathing
Clementine Von Radics
#58. Id done more apologizing in the past week than a politician with a crack pipe and a sex addiction.
Kristin Walker
#59. Inventing was easier than apologizing. It least it was easier to invent excuses.
Jake Lingwall
#60. 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
#61. It's the only real advantage to getting older. You get to say what you mean and stop apologizing.
Jill Davis
#62. He had a notebook. He took notes in it. It was always useful. And them Sybil, gods bless her, had brought him this fifteen-function imp which did so many other things, although as far as he could see at least ten of its functions consisted of apologizing for its inefficiency in the other five.
Terry Pratchett
#63. I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.
John Wayne
#64. Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
Nate Silver
#65. I wish I could tell you what happened, but I can't. Someday I will, but I can't right now and I need you to accept that. Please. And I'm not apologizing to you,because I don't want you to forget what happened and you should never forgive me for it. EVER. Never make excuses for me, Sky.
Colleen Hoover
#66. There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.
Richelle Mead
#67. I talk about beepers going off in the middle of a concert and people being late and not apologizing, and people not RSVP-ing, and adult children going back to live with their parents, which we didn't have in the '60s and '70s.
Letitia Baldrige
#68. I made a horrendous mistake not apologizing to my wife
Ray Rice
#69. We can't go on apologizing all our lives, you know.
Nick Hornby
#70. What the fuck, Dexter," Deborah said accusingly, as if it were my fault the two blood types were different. "I'm sorry," I said, not at all sure what I was apologizing for, but quite certain from her tone of voice that I should.
Jeff Lindsay
#71. One of the things I'm trying to get better at is apologizing when I make mistakes. That's been a big priority of mine.
Evan Spiegel
#72. I'm too tired to fight against you anymore, too tired to say you are wrong. Too tired apologizing, keeping me uping all nighting- criming by wasting my precious timing. Straggling against what I once called charming.
Coco J. Ginger
#73. I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.
Amy Poehler
#74. I'm always apologizing. forever apologizing. for who i am and what i never meant to be and for this body i was born into, this DNA i never asked for, this person i can't unbecome.
Tahereh Mafi
#75. That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time.
Sean Covey
#76. Benjamin's expression turned regretful. "You're right. I'm sorry." Jason couldn't believe his ears. His younger brother was actually apologizing for something. "I appreciate that," Jason finally said.
John O'Riley
#77. I'm so sorry, Jace." His eyes gleamed in the darkness. "I don't understand why mundanes always apologize for things that aren't their fault." "I'm not apologizing. It's a way of - empathizing. Of saying that I'm sorry you're unhappy.
Cassandra Clare
#79. A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, 'Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.'
Mark Waters
#80. If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
Gary Bauer
#81. You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud.
Cara Delevingne
#82. But the universe gave you both Noah. He's the bridge between you. That's why we get the chance to spoil our grandchildren, because by doing that we're apologizing to our children.
Fredrik Backman
#83. If you don't know why you're apologizing, your apology probably sucks.
Holly Black
#84. I'm a real woman who digests her meals and breaks out and has sweet little pockets of cellulite on her upper thighs that she's not apologizing for. Because guess what? We all have that shit. We're all human beings.
Amy Schumer
#85. A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.
Mignon McLaughlin
#86. 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
#87. I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to.
Jess Walter
#89. We cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends.
Mike Pence
#90. For the first time in some years, I didn't care what Father said to me, even though I knew that by the end of the day my conscience would probably win out and I would end up apologizing to him as well.
M.L. LeGette
#91. Sorry 'bout that," Pretty Boy says with a crooked grin. I don't know whether he's apologizing for our initial collision or for the humiliating near-miss of an inadvertent motorboat situation.
Lauren Layne
#92. After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
Sue Grafton
#93. I spent the first twenty-five years of my life apologizing for people like Harald because we're family. Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love and I had a few reasons to defend Harald.
Stieg Larsson
#94. Apologizing makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Expressing gratitude makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Maybe there's something to this vulnerability/strength connection, eh?
Danielle LaPorte
#95. I should stop apologizing for being overly analytical about this, even though I am sorry (not to you but in a deeper way, sorry for my brain chemistry and who I am. I do what I can that isn't heroin to modify it but I was born as anxious and obsessive as any incredibly gorgeous child ever could be.)
Lena Dunham
#96. I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.
Mika Brzezinski
#97. It'd be good if you'd stop apologizing right about now." "It's about all I've got to fix things.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#98. I'm sorry,' I whispered. I didn't know whether I was sympathizing with her broken heart or apologizing for a family who had had theirs broken, too.
Chelsey Philpot
#99. Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.
Joe Wurzelbacher
#100. Anatomy lab, in the end, becomes less a violation of the sacred and more something that interferes with happy hour, and that realization discomfits. In our rare reflective moments, we were all silently apologizing to our cadavers, not because we sensed the transgression but because we did not.
Paul Kalanithi
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