Apologizing Quotes - Page 2

• Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.

  Drake

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Hurt

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

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, God, Im Sorry

  Notebooks ch. 14 (1912)

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• The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Apology, Government, Firsts

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• I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers.

  Lynndie England

  Apology, America, Soldier

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• I didn't have anything to apologize for.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Apology, Economy

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• To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Future, Apology, Foundation

  Ambrose Bierce (1911). “The collected works”

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• I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.

  Ken Burns

  Apology, Done, Want

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• I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.

  Benjamin Day

  Home, Apology, Forget

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• I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.

  Vincent Gallo

  Sorry, Apology, Pigs

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• It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Apology

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• A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit.

  Gwen Ifill

  Apology, Upset, Littles

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 12, 2005.

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• The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast I can't remember what I said or what happened.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Apology, Night, Awards

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• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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• There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.

  Ryan Adams

  Positive, Happiness, Being Happy

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• The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

  Leon Uris

  Sorry, Apology, I Apologize

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• Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

  Marc Ribot

  Love, Movie, Romantic

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

  Douglas Horton

  Im Sorry, Selfish, I Am Sorry

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• Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Apology, Two Sides, Ego

  1858-9 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.6.

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• Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.70, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.

  Rachel Vincent

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Apology

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• Friends are God's apology for relations.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Friendship, Family, Im Sorry

  In Michael Holroyd Best of Hugh Kingsmill (1970) p. 12

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• We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.

  Rick Perry

  Needs, Celebrate Life, Individual

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