Apology Quotes

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

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

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

A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I make no apologies for being reasonable.

I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values.

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

Ladies, apologies, but isn't 'vintage' just used stuff?

To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

We apologize for the fact that the cartoons undeniably have offended many Muslims.

It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.

Somebody actually said that I'm the only entity on earth, other than rogue states, that has received an apology from the White House.

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

It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.

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.

Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.

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.

Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however." "My apologies to your horse.

But my apology was a thousand apologies.

While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

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.

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.

Hate is only conquered by love.

I can make no apologies for following my heart.

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

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.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins.

I’ll accept your apology on one condition.” He folded his arms across his chest. “Anything?” “You trust me.

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.

Too much apology doubles the offense.

With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

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

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

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

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

Apologies have more power than most of us realize to restore strained relationships, free us from vengeful impulses, and create possibilities for growth.

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.

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.

You can't talk your way out of a situation you acted you way into.

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

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

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