Quotes about An Apology

I guess I have learnt now that life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. Votes: 4

I think I deserve an apology. Votes: 3

Never ruin an apology with an excuse. Votes: 3

No sensible person ever made an apology. Votes: 3

Nobody wants an apology letter 14 years later. Votes: 3

I'm sorry you're angry is not an apology. Votes: 3

My life is not an apology, but a life. Votes: 3

Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces. Votes: 3

Everything starts with a lie and ends with an apology. Votes: 3

An apology informed is good; an apology performed is better. Votes: 3

rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress. Votes: 3

My life is an apology for the life of my father. Votes: 3

My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement Votes: 3

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology. Votes: 3

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper. Votes: 3

An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology Votes: 3

It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain. Votes: 3

It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission. Votes: 3

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology. Votes: 3

There are things that can be fixed with an apology and things that can't. Votes: 3

Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology. Votes: 3

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology. Votes: 3

I started to write an apology, but I don't have anything to say I'm sorry for, Votes: 3

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'! Votes: 3

I wish for you the wisdom to realize that forgiveness has nothing to do with an apology. Votes: 3

In this life, when you deny someone an apology,you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness. Votes: 3

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. Votes: 3

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange. Votes: 3

The only people I owe an apology to are my dead parents. Except my father because he's still alive. Votes: 3

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. Votes: 3

I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement. Votes: 3

In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly. Votes: 3

If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning. Votes: 3

Sometimes, an apology sets free a part of you that you didn't even realize was caged...and forgiveness destroys the cage. Votes: 3

I'm sorry, my lady," said Geric, rubbing his arm. "But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose. Votes: 3

How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment? Votes: 3

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man. Votes: 3

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When I accept an apology it means that the part in me that honors our relationship honors the part in you that honors our relationship. Votes: 3

If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for. Votes: 3

Sorry for hurting you, she said right in my ear, but it wasn't really an apology, because you don't bite someone's earlobe to tell them you're sorry. Votes: 3

You don't know where life's gonna take you. Sometimes it takes you getting carried out of a club and then into a booth as an apology for it. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. Votes: 3

No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable. Votes: 3

"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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When we have fights in our family, they don't end with an apology. You make up by getting back to normal. Like you'll call and say, 'You want to go shopping?' Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I want you to answer this question: Why should you settle for anything less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and values without an apology? Think about that. Votes: 3

. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead. Votes: 3

In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful." The press was busy printing money. Votes: 3

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators. Votes: 3

I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique. Votes: 3

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music. Votes: 3

The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear. Votes: 3

I actually think that the president owes the Jews of Europe an apology. They deserve better from the President of the United States. Anti-semitism is on the rise, and somebody must stick up for them. Votes: 3

I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. Votes: 3

President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that -- Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore. Votes: 3

I drew a vicious cartoon of an Islamic extremist as a dog, knowing full well what an insult that was is in the Islamic world. Furthermore, I added an apology to dogs everywhere (being a dog lover myself). Votes: 3

Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it. Votes: 3

Two things I learned a long time ago, Cate: Don't hold a grudge longer than it takes to work your way through a pan of brownies all by yourself, and don't begrudge someone an apology if they deserve it. Votes: 3

When you say the word 'sorry' make sure you understand that an apology has 3 parts. "I'm sorry", "It's my fault and I won't do it again" and "How can I make things better". The last part is the most important. Votes: 3

So what did you bring? Lip gloss and a hairbrush?Smirking, she unpacked the sandwiches Mort's cook had made for her, along with an ample slice of chocolate cakeYou owe me an apology.Omigod, it's a feast! Okay, you're forgiven. Votes: 3

Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology. Votes: 3

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... Votes: 3

So what did you bring? Lip gloss and a hairbrush?" Smirking, she unpacked the sandwiches Mort's cook had made for her, along with an ample slice of chocolate cake. "You owe me an apology." "Omigod, it's a feast! Okay, you're forgiven. Votes: 3

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. Votes: 3

I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I was wrong. He called me to tell me after Pat Robertson's endorsement, there's an Amen in every sentence he says too. Votes: 3

The first comfort women didn't actually come forward until 1992, and since then, the issue has really been kicked up. Japan issued a 1993 acknowledgement on this. It's called the Kono Agreement. But in recent years, South Korea has been wanting an apology to go much further. Votes: 3

I guess we didn't even officially apologize. Jesse Jackson called on the United States to officially apologize to the Chinese. Jesse said, 'An apology is not a sign of weakness.' And as President Clinton has taught us, an apology isn't even a sign you're sorry. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The etiquette business has its emergencies, heaven knows, but it is in the nature of etiquette emergencies that once one realizes what one has done, it is too late. One might as well get a good night's sleep and send flowers with an apology in the morning. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one. Votes: 1

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. Votes: 1

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. Votes: 1

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. Votes: 1

It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower. Votes: 1

An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent. Votes: 1

I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career. Votes: 1

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation. Votes: 1

I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that. Votes: 1

After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind. Votes: 1

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past. Votes: 1

I have a no-apology policy. Votes: 0

Too much apology doubles the offense. Votes: 0

violets are God's apology for February ... Votes: 0

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology. Votes: 0

Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli Votes: 0

Friends are God's apology for relations. Votes: 0

Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection. Votes: 0

But my apology was a thousand apologies. Votes: 0

We rarely wrestle with apology and lose. Votes: 0

Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Votes: 0

Progress occurs one apology at a time. Votes: 0

Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Votes: 0

I want a formal apology from the mayor. Votes: 0

The best apology against false accusers is silence. Votes: 0

Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology. Votes: 0

A hero is someone we can admire without apology. Votes: 0

The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins. Votes: 0

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology Votes: 0

An apology for America's values is never the right course. Votes: 0

Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith. Votes: 0

Apology may be scorned, but it retains its inherent value. Votes: 0

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. Votes: 0

No apology is equal to the task set before it. Votes: 0

In the case of Tori Spelling, there were two apology emails. Votes: 0

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli. Votes: 0

Apology is the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves. Votes: 0

The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken. Votes: 0

And I make no apology for linking my thinking with computer technology. Votes: 0

Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got. Votes: 0

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. Votes: 0

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless. Votes: 0

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless." Votes: 0

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that. Votes: 0

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. Votes: 0

Apology is not for the faint of heart, but then, neither is life. Votes: 0

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that. Votes: 0

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem. Votes: 0

The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense. Votes: 0

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Votes: 0

There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians Votes: 0

I lied to you about a lot of things....but I meant every apology. Votes: 0

Suicide is the utmost sincere and candid apology to the ones you hurt most Votes: 0

We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice. Votes: 0

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison. Votes: 0

Apology reminds us that each person (including ourselves) deserves to be respected and treated fairly. Votes: 0

Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas. Votes: 0

An effective apology focuses more on compassion for the victim than redemption for the offender. Votes: 0

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live ... Votes: 0

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift. Votes: 0

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology. Votes: 0

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well. Votes: 0

A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound. Votes: 0

Accepting the apology signals the acknowledgment of a need to move forward, but not necessarily together. Votes: 0

I believe that things should be let go once they are discussed. Apology accepted. End of story. Votes: 0

To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me. Votes: 0

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes. Votes: 0

Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth. Votes: 0

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology. Votes: 0

An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?" Votes: 0

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Votes: 0

I'm The Only Entity On Earth, Other Than Rogue States, That Has Received An Apology From The White House Votes: 0

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read. Votes: 0

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat. Votes: 0

To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community and apology for a disgusting and despicable smear campaign, Votes: 0

I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced. Votes: 0

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour. Votes: 0

I'll accept your apology on one condition." He folded his arms across his chest. "Anything?" "You trust me. Votes: 0

If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity. Votes: 0

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. Votes: 0

If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now. Votes: 0

Some days I will be a stuttering apology and you won't know how to handle all the things I've done wrong. Votes: 0

Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right. Votes: 0

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know. Votes: 0

I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath Votes: 0

You know your marriage is in trouble when your wife would rather listen to a cackling drug lord than accept your apology. Votes: 0

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. Votes: 0

It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused. Votes: 0

Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history. Votes: 0

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release. Votes: 0

I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid. Votes: 0

I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born Votes: 0

From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology. Votes: 0

In one's garden a person may be one's own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the romance of possibility. Votes: 0

The purpose of apology is to extend ourselves in such a way that relationships become deeper, and life becomes richer and more human in the process. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice. Votes: 0

Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it. Votes: 0

There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people, ... The president's going to have to get a touch of reality. Votes: 0

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult. Votes: 0

Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins. Votes: 0

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all. Votes: 0

Apology is both transactional, in that it restores what has been broken to what it was before, and transformational, in that it creates opportunities that didn't exist before. Votes: 0

I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap. Votes: 0

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless. Votes: 0

The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are. Votes: 0

Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology. Votes: 0

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt Votes: 0

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. Votes: 0

I suppose I should make a little apology to Cyndi - although I'm not taking the blame for this - because I was the one who did say Cyndi had won. Votes: 0

Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures. Votes: 0

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows. Votes: 0

I make no apology for wanting to make a profit - the more I make, the bigger percentage will go to charity. So most of the work I do now is motivated by that. Votes: 0

Apology calls for a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the wronged party and the inherent value of the relationship, not for what it brings to you but for what you can bring to it. Votes: 0

It depressed him to consider how much energy he had wasted, over the years, in the self-denying posture of apology. From now on, whatever else his life might hold, there would be no more apologies. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I swallow any sort of apology. "screwing your neighbor." There. Said it. React, okay? pregnant pause becomes three weeks overdue. Four weeks. Time for a C-section. What? Oh, Kaeleigh, I'm so sorry. Are you sure...? Votes: 0