Top 33 Quotes About Making Amends
#1. A powerful wind swept through the shtetl, making it whistle. Those studying obscure texts in dimly lit rooms looked up. Lovers making amends and promises, amendments and excuses, fell silent.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#2. Ain't no deserving, or otherwise,' Silo said, his bass voice rolling out from deep in his chest. 'There's what is, and what ain't, and there's what you do about it. Regret's just a way to make you feel okay when you're not making amends. A man can waste a life with regrets.
Chris Wooding
#3. Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.
George Eliot
#4. Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.
George Eliot
#5. I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends.
Steve Carell
#6. If Wayne needed a punching bag, Vic was ready to take the hits. It would be a way of making amends.
How she loved that word. She liked that it almost sounded like "amen".
Joe Hill
#7. If actions were always judged by their consequence, we'd spend half our lives making amends.
-Luke Skywalker
James Luceno
#8. True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.
Lawana Blackwell
#9. And this is the end of Elaine Stainless, it seems. I thought I was helping those I'd harmed before, somehow - that I was making amends. I still think that now, if I'm honest. It's not like there's anything else I can do. Your backstory always gets you in the end.
Jason Heller
#10. Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.
Marianne Williamson
#11. Cassidy Evans would be a welcome distraction from life for a while. She would be treated kindly of course. She deserved that much. His family had benefited from her pain in the past, and he would enjoy making amends for any inconvenience she had suffered.
Michelle McLoughney
#12. I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.
Jayson Blair
#13. He wanted his articles to be, not infinite exactly, but big enough to suggest infinitude.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#14. If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?
George Carlin
#15. The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.
Joss Whedon
#16. So by keeping her word, Frieda B. made amends. And the two who'd been strangers became best of friends.
Renata Bowers
#17. I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards him when he was alive.
Michael Ignatieff
#18. The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost.
Shannon L. Alder
#19. Many years before, she had read, and recognized as true, the words of W. B. Yeats: 'A Pity beyond all telling is hit at the heart of love'. She had smiled over the poem, and stroked the page, because she had known both that she loved Colin, and that compassion formed a huge part of her love.
J.K. Rowling
#20. Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.
Jon Cryer
#21. You'd be teary, too, yes you would be," he said, "if a girl and her bed had crashed into your head.
Renata Bowers
#22. Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
Dale Earnhardt
#24. The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.
Vincent Van Gogh
#25. Need twisted deep and low inside her. It twined through her body like kudzu vines growing out of control, taking over and smothering what little good sense she had left.
Cat Johnson
#26. Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
Jean De La Fontaine
#27. Also my with sadness, something else crept in the door, a trace of something else, I mean. It must have come from the woodpile or ran in from the woods, because I'd not felt anything like it before.
Gerard Donovan
#28. Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#29. Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.
Shannon L. Alder
#30. It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.
Freya North
#31. Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of amends, the relief of anger and compassion for the victim, to deep reconciliation.
Phil Cousineau
#32. Gravity is why there are suns and planets in the first place. It is practically God.
Mary Roach
#33. 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
