Trying To Make Amends Quotes

#1. It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

Martin Henderson

#2. 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

#3. I prefer the gloominess to the sun. I don't know why.

Skrillex

#4. Most modern comedy is crap.

Adrian Edmondson

#5. Truth has no duality.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.

Laini Taylor

#7. To relinquish yourself carries no shame.

Haruki Murakami

#8. 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

#9. In the Congress of the United States, Cromwell had known a good many men who were possessed of absolute certainty, and this he feared so much that he felt the only real and enduring evil on the face of the earth was unbending certainty, unshakable orthodoxy.

Howard Fast

#10. In the book A Wrinkle in Time, it says that time is like a big old rumpled blanket. What I'd like is to be caught in one of those wrinkles. Tucked away. Hidden in a small tight fold.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#11. Monopoly, like every other system of injustice, carries in itself its own punishment.

Frederic Bastiat

#12. I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#13. When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day.' Not some days. Every day.

Ray Allen

#14. There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

Gillian Flynn

#15. This was why mothers were so obsessively, consumingly, drivenly, and yet somehow narcissistically loving of you, their kid: the mothers are trying frantically to make amends for a murder neither of you quite remember.

David Foster Wallace

#16. She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.

Khaled Hosseini

#17. The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#18. 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

#19. He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.

Mike Ditka