I Am Sorry Quotes - Page 2

• Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

  Douglas Horton

  Im Sorry, Selfish, Apologizing

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• When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

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  Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Clever

  "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.

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• In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

  Margaret Laurence

  Funny, Family, Sarcastic

  Margaret Laurence (2014). “A Bird in the House: Stories”, p.90, University of Chicago Press

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  Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Im Sorry, Being Yourself

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• An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

  Lynn Johnston

  Im Sorry, Apology, Apologizing

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• True sorrow is as rare as true love.

  Stephen King

  Im Sorry, Sorrow, Being Sorry

  Stephen King (1974). “Carrie: A Novel of a Girl with a Frightening Power”, Scarborough, Ont. : New American Library of Canada

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• Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Bitterness, Provoked

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.74, Heron Dance Press

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• I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

  William Whipple

  Sorry, Apology, Long

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• Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.

  Bryan Davis

  Im Sorry, Heart, Apology

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• I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

  Sitting Bull

  Im Sorry, Native American, Saying Sorry

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• But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

  Stephen King

  Im Sorry, Sorrow, Emotion

  Stephen King (1974). “Carrie”

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• You can always say sorry but the real apology is when you hear the sadness in their voice and see the look in their eyes. And you realize that they have hurt themselves just as much.

  Kid Cudi

  Hurt, Sorry, Real

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• You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

  E. W. Howe

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Apology

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• Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

  Lee Atwater

  Im Sorry, People, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Archibald Alexander

  Im Sorry, Heart, Apology

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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• It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.

  Stephen Stills

  Lonely, Hurt, Sorry

  Song: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, 2007

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• I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

  Anthony Weiner

  Im Sorry, Hurt, Mistake

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• I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Bible, Sorry, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1911-1912”

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• I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.

  Zachary Taylor

  Sorry, Regret, My Friends

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• Looking out of the window at the infinite sky, I prayed out, 'Dear Baby Jesus, I am sorry for my sin, even though I do not know what they are, which seems a bit unfair if it is going to be held against me. But that is your way. And I am not questioning your wisdomosity. In future, however, would it be possible for my life to be not so entirely crap? Thank you.

  Louise Rennison

  Baby, Jesus, Sorry

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• The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Sorry, Mad

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity - and it was an atrocity.

  Oliver Stone

  Sorry, Regret, Hard Work

  "Oliver Stone: ‘Jewish Domination Of The Media’ Propagates Holocaust Myths". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

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• Granted, not really a joke, but how often do you get a mic in your hand? You know? So. I am sorry but don't anybody trip on my soap box on the way out. Don't anybody trip over that. And the chip on my shoulder's a little heavy. I have back problems now.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Sorry, Hands, Littles

  "Janeane Garofalo". TV Special, August 23, 1997.

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• I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorry, Kindness, Gambling

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 21 November 1773

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