Apologizing Quotes - Page 5

• Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

  Douglas Coupland

  Apology, Long, Car

  10 Copy quote

• I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

  Bob Matsui

  Country, Apology, Past

  7 Copy quote

• It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Life, Sorry, Humorous

  The Man Upstairs (1914) title story

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

  David Brin

  Inspiring, Apology, Carpe Diem

  31 Copy quote

• If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hilarious, Dream, Love Yourself

  Twitter post from Sep 16, 2010

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sorry, Apology, Men

  14 Copy quote

• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Apology, Later In Life, Feet

  "The Crack-Up". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1936.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

  Grace Hopper

  Apology, Permission, Easier

  12 Copy quote

• A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

  Trent Lott

  Apology, Past, Choices

  "Lott Apologizes for Remark". www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2002.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television.

  Katherine Moennig

  Character, Apology, Television

  16 Copy quote
• 

  We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.

  Joan Rivers

  Humor, Apology, Laughing

  Piers Morgan @piersmorgan, twitter.com. September 04, 2014.

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.

  Larry Adler

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Larry Adler, Philip Judge (1994). “Me and My Big Mouth”, Blake Pub

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I have done wrong to another person, the correct course of action is to apologize and make amends to that person and not blow it all off and hope that some God is going to forgive me and make it all go away. That sort of mentality is what allows people to not treat others in a way that is good.

  Matt Dillahunty

  Blow, People, Forgive Me

  45 Copy quote

• I really believe it's time for some of us to stop apologizing for God and start apologizing to Him for being embarrassed by the ways He has chosen to reveal Himself

  Francis Chan

  Believe, Way, Embarrassed

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.321, David C Cook

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.

  Saul Alinsky

  Fighting, Blow, Land

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.7, Vintage

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evening? I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. but I'm not going to. I don't have anything to apologize for. They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Sorry, People, Feelings

  9 Copy quote

• He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Guests, Unexpected

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Stardust”, p.15, Harper Collins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine, you don't have to go back and rework it. You don't have to apologize.

  Anjelica Huston

  Decision, Criticism, Getting Older

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Last night I made an insensitive comment which I sincerely regret. It was my mistake and I want to apologize to those who were offended.

  Tyler Seguin

  Regret, Mistake, Night

  15 Copy quote

• Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.

  Nick Hornby

  Sorry, Couple, Regret

  9 Copy quote

• Never apologize, it's all part of the trick.

  Harry Lorayne

  Magic, Tricks

  10 Copy quote

• In those early centuries of Christianity,
  Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers
  of darkness and undo the works of the devil, and it lived in holy triumph.

  John G. Lake

  Darkness, Devil, Triumph

  John G. Lake (2010). “Your Power In The Holy Spirit”, p.78, Whitaker House

  356 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

  Dave Hickey

  Gossip, Complaining, Shut Up

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never apologize on stage. Most people never notice when you make a mistake or if you are having a bad show.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Mistake, People, Stage

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when--I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Moving, Teaching

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source