Top 100 Quotes About Apology
#1. A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#2. My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
Colin Firth
#3. There will never be a reunion, as I will never do anything with an asshole like Will Smith. He is still an egomaniac and has not grown up. This constant reunion thing will never ever happen in my lifetime unless there is an apology, which he doesn't know the word.
Janet Hubert
#4. He was so handsome she wanted to demand an apology from him.
Tiffany Reisz
#5. The only people I owe an apology to are my dead parents. Except my father because he's still alive.
Chelsea Handler
#6. I take it she didn't accept your apology?"
"Who says I gave an apology, or a reason to need one?"
"Because you're you, and on top of that, you're a man . . ." He salutes me and downs the rest of what's in his glass. "We always have to apologize first. It's the way it is.
Anna Todd
#7. I want your best room,' said Laurent, 'with a big bed and a private bath, and if you send up the house boy, you'll find out the hard way that I don't like sharing.'
He delivered the innkeeper a long, cool look.
He's expensive,' said Damen to the innkeeper, by way of apology.
C.S. Pacat
#8. The Scots language is a mark of the distinctive identity of the Scottish people; and as such we should be concerned to preserve it, even if there were no other reason, because it is ours. This statement requires neither explanation nor apology.
J.Derrick McClure
#9. He turned the book around to show me. It was a short list. Accept Dan's apology. Give Dan a Toblerone. Kiss Dan. Without
Lindsey Kelk
#10. What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers.
James Clavell
#11. There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on mounts and signs announcing artist Photographer, Artistic Photography Studio, etc., and the lower the standard the more frantic the claim ...
Gertrude Kasebier
#12. 'I'm sorry' won't fix what's been broken. It can't reverse time or undo the damage or change anything that happened. But a sincere, humble apology can serve to soften the sting and sometimes do a pretty good patch up job.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#13. I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.
Anthony Trollope
#14. Ellie fought the urge to stamp her foot. "I meant it this time. Do you accept my apology?"
"It appears," he said, raising his eyebrows, "that you might do me bodily harm if I do not."
"Ungracious prig," she muttered. "I am trying to apologize."
"And I," he said, "am trying to accept.
Julia Quinn
#15. The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said; for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved. When
Frederick Douglass
#16. Don't apologize."
"I wasn't-"
"Not in words, but it was clear from your tone. Apology suggests that you are keeping me from doing what I need to do, which implies I am somehow powerless to do otherwise. It's a choice, Olivia.
Kelley Armstrong
#17. The PR industry loves the concept that if you just apologize, the problem goes away. The concept of apology is known in the Judeo-Christian sense: You apologize, but then you suffer. The problem is nobody wants the suffering. Everybody wants drive-through redemption.
Eric Dezenhall
#18. We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.
David Letterman
#19. Everything starts with a lie and ends with an apology.
Zoran Drvenkar
#20. Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question ... so break 'yo'self'!
T.F. Hodge
#21. There was another way to live. A way that did not involve anesthetizing yourself. A way that did not mean you lived your whole life as an apology for who you were.
Jojo Moyes
#22. Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.
Mordecai Richler
#23. Behavior speaks ... I need not listen to someone's apology; I'll watch for it. I've learned not to let someone's words blind me from their behavior.
Steve Maraboli
#24. This apology is not just to Bernie Sanders. It is to donors. It is to anyone and everyone that clearly we offended. And the e-mails that were revealed that were hacked.
Donna Brazile
#25. Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection.
Wes Fesler
#26. There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians
Dennis Prager
#28. In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
Horace
#29. It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.
Cassandra Clare
#30. Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology.
Nouman Ali Khan
#31. I'd developed an apology-is-much-better-than-asking-for-permission mentality.
S.A. Tawks
#32. His smile was instinctive. A little bit apology, a little bit politeness. And a little bit of charm because, of all the things he'd expected to come from his trip to the market, meeting a cute girl with messy hair and dirty work gloves had definitely not been one of them.
Marissa Meyer
#33. I had no business trying to see you leave, see death arrive, I owe you an apology, an elegy, I owe you the drift of memory, the praise of everything, of saying it was the best decision of my life, to hold you full, hold you empty, & live as the only bond between the two.
Bob Hicok
#34. Phrased it. The state sends him to prison, and the church gives you an apology in the
Danielle Steel
#35. I can feel the apology in his fingers, and this takes the wind out of me, so I lean into him - just a little - and read over his shoulder. His hand is warm and I don't want to stop holding it. We
Jennifer Niven
#36. No apology is equal to the task set before it.
John Kador
#37. How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?
Faraaz Kazi
#38. "I would like to apologize" may sound like an apology, but it is no more an actual apology than saying "I would like to lose weight" makes you suddenly slimmer.
John Kador
#39. Please, Decker, nothing says I-can't-be-bothered-trying like a bunch of flowers and a half-assed apology.
Kirsty Dallas
#40. Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.
Matt Taibbi
#41. Hurt people hurt people more skillfully. An expert heartbreaker knows the effect of each incision. The blade slips in barely noticed, the pain and the apology delivered at the same time.
Anonymous
#42. The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached ... An apology for America's values is never the right course ... The statement that came from the administration was - was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a - a severe miscalculation.
Mitt Romney
#43. Her technique was not perfect. Here and there he heard an off-pitch note, and her run of sixteenths was uneven. But her attack was fierce, her bow digging into the strings with such confidence that even her mistakes sounded intentional, every note played without apology.
Tess Gerritsen
#44. It's nobody's fault that our hearts work in their little strange ways. It's nobody's fault that we fall for one another. It's nobody's fault that we can't have the love we yearn. It's nobody's fault that we never learn. So, save your apology, my dear. Save it for later days. Save it for better days.
Noor Iskandar
#45. When you make a mistake, give an apology without an excuse attached to it. The longer an apology, the less authentic it is.
Steve Maraboli
#46. I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
#47. It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.
Michael Chabon
#49. I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music.
Gillian Flynn
#50. If you don't know why you're apologizing, your apology probably sucks.
Holly Black
#51. And we used "I love you" like an apology for the things we couldn't give each other
Anthony Kiedis
#52. We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.
Denis Napthine
#53. An apology informed is good; an apology performed is better.
John Kador
#54. It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.
Stephen Fry
#55. The custom of prefixing or appending to historical narratives an estimate of the character and personality of the principal agent is of doubtful advantage at the best of times - it either imparts a specious unity to the action or permits apology or condemnation on moral and emotional grounds.
Ronald Syme
#56. Mike Adams' assertion that I grabbed Chelsea's (backside) is both false and defamatory. I think we can all agree that Chelsea is not nearly as hot as Ms. Lewinski. The charges simply lack any indicia of credibility. I demand an apology. And I also demand a cigar.
William J. Clinton
#57. Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful.
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. Sometimes, an apology sets free a part of you that you didn't even realize was caged ... and forgiveness destroys the cage.
Sanjo Jendayi
#59. 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
#60. An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?"
John Kador
#61. softly spoken apology for this detour in my life was powerful in its simplicity.
Vikki Claflin
#62. Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?
Marie Lu
#63. Darling, family can be the very devil in disguise. More powerful than any drug, more alluring than any sin. They can demand a loyalty that will rip your heart out and chew it up without the thought of an apology.
Liz Reinhardt
#65. I didna say I wanted an apology, did I? If I recall aright, what I said was 'Bite me again.
Diana Gabaldon
#66. An effective apology focuses more on compassion for the victim than redemption for the offender.
John Kador
#67. I pulled her arms around me without apology, tight enough that it was difficult to expand my chest enough to fully inhale but for the first time all night, I felt like I could breathe.-pg 232/ARC
Jamie McGuire
#68. Love is a bonfire. It's every kind word. It's every sincere apology. It's every compromise.
Nessie Q.
#69. I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.
Kathleen Raine
#71. I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian coworkers at 30 Rock, without whom Tracy would not have lines to say, clothes to wear, sets to stand on, scene partners to act with, or a printed-out paycheck from accounting to put in his pocket.
Tina Fey
#72. Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don't, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.
Adrian Tan
#73. Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right.
John Kador
#74. Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#75. I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.
Kirk Douglas
#76. There was no echo, no reverberation. If anything the room ate sound. It swallowed her voice, her words, and her eternal, inadequate apology. But not her memories. She would never be rid of those.
Laini Taylor
#78. You know your marriage is in trouble when your wife would rather listen to a cackling drug lord than accept your apology.
Red Tash
#79. An apology is designed to make the offender feel okay so that he can do it again. Don't be sorry. Kincaid tried to gather the shreds
Ken Follett
#80. I was raised Catholic," he began. "But you're not now?" the judge asked, frowning. "No," he said. He had worked for years to keep the apology out of his voice when he said this.
Hanya Yanagihara
#81. I'm not staying with him for the pain. It's what he says in his sleep. When he's moaning, he whispers. The cry he utters with a face so full of sorrow.
"So ... "
" ... rry ... "
"I'm sorry ... "
It makes me sad that no one hears his apology.
SHOOWA
#82. An apology, even as sincere as the one she had just received, could repair not one hour of the suffering she had endured over the last one hundred years, but ... her thoughts trailed away from her and her mouth fell open.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#83. Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
Patti Davis
#84. Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#85. If the blaming action produces a false apology, patronization of the moral code, and false promises with no intention of complying with moral law, it prevents satisfaction in the victim.
Karin Huffer
#86. Revolution is the sound of your heart still beating. and as long as it is, you have work to do. Do it. Without apology. Do it. Bravely and nobly. Do it. Exist, insist, and by all means, resist.
Dominique Christina
#87. Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history.
Ralph Barton Perry
#88. What's the n-never-fail universal apology?"
"'I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go fuck yourself with this bag of money.
Scott Lynch
#89. Physical laws are ruled by logic, and are ungovernable: so when the die comes to rest on its edge, it owes neither apology nor account.
John Hadac
#90. I lied to you about a lot of things," he finally said. She snorted. "But I meant every apology.
Marissa Meyer
#91. I don't even think you should tell the audience you're improvising. It's like an apology in case it's bad : 'we're just making it up' If the improv isn't better than the rehearsed stuff, then you should just rehearse it.
Keith Johnstone
#92. I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.
Andy Andrews
#93. I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
John Milton
#94. He sighed. "I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?
"No.
Patricia Briggs
#95. It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.
Lester Cole
#96. The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.
Kevin Rudd
#97. Do you know want I'm going to do first thing tomorrow?"
"Can I put in a request?"
"I'm going to call every man I've ever had sex with and demand an apology.
Jeaniene Frost
#98. The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.
John Alfred Langford
#99. Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology
Michael Foot
#100. People owe us nothing: they can blow through our lives, make us feel hopeful and loved, and then disappear with no explanation or apology.
Ryan O'Connell
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