Apologizing Quotes - Page 22

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Apology, Sides, Desperate

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• I argue with myself, get mad at myself, throw myself around the room and then apologize to myself.

  Jim Cummings

  Mad, Rooms, Arguing

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  Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sad, Robots, Emotion

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Do what you think is right and apologize later.

  Scott Wilson

  Thinking, Morgana

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• MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended - including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.

  Janet Jackson

  Nfl, Mtv, Intention

  "Apologetic Jackson says 'costume reveal' went awry". www.cnn.com. February 3, 2004.

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• I say to the [European countries]: Hurry up and apologize to our nation, because if you do not, you will regret it. This is because our nation is progressing and is victorious. Do not leave a black mark in the collective memory of the nation, because our nation will not forgive you.

  Khaled Mashal

  Country, Memories, Regret

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• The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It's what he does in response to his mistakes. The same is true of companies. We have to apologize, we have to fix the problem, and we have to learn from our mistakes.

  Wil Shipley

  Mistake, Men, Community

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• If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize.

  Edward Abbey

  Insult, I Apologize, Stills

  Edward Abbey (1988). “One Life at a Time, Please”, p.5, Macmillan

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• I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Grandchildren, Looks, Planets

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.79, RosettaBooks

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• Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Opportunity, Thinking, Giving

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• Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Mistake, Media, Editors

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• Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, Sadness, Men

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• Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And things always go wrong. We respond with apologies; we continue to apologize long after the event is forgotten - and even if it had no causal relation to anything we did to begin with.

  Nancy Chodorow

  Apology, Self, Long

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• The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

  Charles Handy

  Strength, Struggle, Successful

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• Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own.

  Ruth Whitman

  Faces, Worn, Let Me

  Ruth Whitman (1990). “Laughing Gas: Poems, New and Selected, 1963-1990”, p.66, Wayne State University Press

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• I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Hard Times, Thinking, Self

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• Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

  Dave Parker

  Successful, Thinking, People

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

  Tyler Kent

  Night, Burning, Made

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• 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.

  Jay Leno

  Stupid, Apology, Should Have

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• I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.

  Mason Cooley

  Regret, Blame, I Apologize

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• You have to almost apologize for saying, please enforce the laws. The laws, that they're [government] receiving good federal dollars to be able to ensure for public safety, which is incumbent upon them to secure on the streets in every city and state across this country. And instead government allows individuals who are a risk, who are a threat, to come back in the country, routinely, regularly without any kind of checks and balances.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Country, Government, Law

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in self-ridicule or self-help. Dunham doesn't apologize like that-she simply tells her story as if it might be interesting. The result is shocking and radical because it is utterly familiar. Not That Kind of Girl is hilarious, artful, and staggeringly intimate; I read it shivering with recognition.

  Miranda July

  Girl, Honesty, Self

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• [T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it.

  Jeff Cooper

  Mistake, Government, United States

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• I begin, then, with some remarks about 'the meaning of a word.' I think many persons now see all or part of what I shall say: but not all do, and there is a tendency to forget, or to get it slightly wrong. In so far as I am merely flogging the converted, I apologize to them.

  J. L. Austin

  Thinking, Forget, Tendencies

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• To all the kids who looked up to me, I’m truly sorry for letting you down, but I hope it’s helped you learn that one bad decision can turn your dream into a nightmare. There is no excuse for domestic violence, and I apologize for the horrible mistake I made.

  Ray Rice

  Dream, Sorry, Mistake

  "At crossroads in quest to continue NFL career, Ray Rice asks forgiveness" by Aaron Wilson, www.baltimoresun.com. February 13, 2015.

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