Apologizing Quotes - Page 25

• Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

  Bella Abzug

  Race, Half, Never Forget

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• I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Writing, Blood, Hands

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Sex, Peaceful, Normal

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• You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.

  John Scalzi

  Feel Better, People, Giving

  John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.27, Macmillan

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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 want to make women laugh. I want to make them feel beautiful in their own skin. I want to empower them to use their voice and not apologize.

  Amy Schumer

  Beautiful, Laughing, Empowering

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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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• The PR industry loves the concept that if you just apologize, the problem goes away. The concept of apology is known in the Judeo-Christian sense: You apologize, but then you suffer. The problem is nobody wants the suffering. Everybody wants drive-through redemption.

  Eric Dezenhall

  Christian, Apology, Suffering

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• President Obama has been a disaster for America. He's wrecked our economy, saddled our children with more debt than America managed to rack up in 225 years, and gone around the world apologizing for our country - as if the greatest nation in the world needs to apologize for being a land of opportunity and freedom, which we were before Obama became president.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Every day I have spent in Uganda has been beautifully overwhelming; everywhere I have looked, raw, filthy, human need and brokenness have been on display, begging for someone to meet them, fix them. And even though I realize I cannot always mend or meet, I can enter in. I can enter into someone's pain and sit with them and know. This is Jesus. Not that He apologizes for the hard and the hurt, but that he enters in, He comes with us to the hard places. And so I continue to enter.

  Katie Davis

  Hurt, Jesus, Pain

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• A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.

  Mark Waters

  Firsts, First Time, Filmmaker

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• Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Spring, Thinking, Government

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• What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the government-subsidized sector, staffing the welfare regulatory state, and apologizing for its policies, as well as propagandizing for them among the public. To put it bluntly, intellectuals, theorists, pundits, media elites, etc. get to live a life which they could not attain on the free market, but which they can gain at taxpayer expense.

  Murray Rothbard

  Jobs, Government, Media

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• I don't apologize for my diamonds, Rolls-Royce, Range Rover, or anything. Look, Queen Elizabeth has more diamonds than me. Why don't people attack her for it?

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Queens, People, Looks

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• I think the church has to apologize not only to the gay person it has offended, but also to the poor, to women who are exploited, to children forced into labor and for having blessed so many weapons in the past.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Blessed, Gay

  "Church Should Apologize To Gays, Pope Francis Says". The Pope’s Press Conference on Flight from Armenia, www.npr.org. June 27, 2016.

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• Well, Americans expect our president to be human beings, and as imperfect as all of us are. They expect us to make mistakes and all that. But one thing the American public likes is, if you make a mistake, you do that, you cross that line that they expect you to behave under, then you apologize or then you correct that behavior and said you have learned, you are going to do better, you are going to achieve better, and you are going to serve a higher purpose than that.

  Matthew Dowd

  Mistake, President, Purpose

  Source: www.pbs.org

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