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• The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

  Jay McInerney

  Friendship, Family, Inspiring

  Jay McInerney (2011). “The Last of the Savages”, p.3, Vintage

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• The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Spiritual, Humility, Apology

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• You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either

  Gene Stallings

  Success, Apology, Flaunting

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• The self-righteous never apologize.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Self, Righteous, Self Righteous

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• I am not going to apologize for speaking the Name of Jesus, I am not going to justify my faith to them, and I am not going to hide the light that God has put in me. If I have to sacrifice everything... I will.

  Rachel

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Light

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• This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.

  Fred Thompson

  Country, Freedom, Tired

  "ABC Reacts to Fred Thompson Entry With Boredom, Sarcasm". "Good Morning America", www.newsbusters.org. August 31, 2007.

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• Never apologize for being yourself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Being Yourself

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• Um, Bella? You've got a huge cut on your forehead, and it's gushing blood," he informed me. I clapped my hand over my head. Sure enough, it was wet and sticky. I could smell nothing but the damp moss on my face, and that held off the nausea. Oh, I'm so sorry, Jacob." I pushed hard against the gash, as if I could force the blood back inside my head. Why are you apologizing for bleeding?" he wondered as he wrapped a long arm around my waist and and pulled me to my feet.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sorry, Cutting, Blood

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• I would like to apologize to Brock Lesnar, his family, the UFC and the UFC fans for my stupid remarks. I respect Brock, all the other fighters, and the sport of mixed martial arts. I’m sorry that I stepped out of line.

  Frank Mir

  Sports, Art, Sorry

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• I’m sorry. I was just thinking of that stupid song, ‘Seasons in the Sun.’ You know, ‘we had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.’ Good grief, I should be a mental patient. (Cassandra) You have more strength than any warrior I have known. Don’t ever apologize to me again for those few times when you show your fear to me, Cassandra. (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Song, Sorry, Fun

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.297, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.

  Richelle Mead

  People, Moved On, I Realized

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.251, Penguin

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• Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one." He Spread his hands wide. "My deepest apologies." "When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Apology, Hands, Trying

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.63, Penguin

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• I don't like this." "I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the police and your murderous twin, and Damian's looking peaky, plus Christian did apologize for trying to kill us earlier." "I wasn't talking about that. It's your lamentable habit of using completely unsuitable love names for me that gives me grief," Adrian groused. "I am not a lambypie, nor am I a spaetzel.

  Katie MacAlister

  Christian, Running, Grief

  Katie MacAlister (2008). “Sex, Lies and Vampires (Dark Ones Book Three)”, p.271, Hachette UK

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• Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.

  Paulo Coelho

  Doe, Permission, Asks

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• What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Practice, Civilization, Solitude

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent
  civilians...What is one more life thrown away in this
  sad and useless national tragedy? If one death can
  atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the
  world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am
  ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my
  country.

  Malachi Ritscher

  Country, Tragedy, World

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• I'm sorry, Dite." Dite shrugged away the apology. "You have spared my brother when you could have killed him and you have offered me escape from the cesspit of my family and this court. You know what it means to me, to make music in the court of Ferria. You've put a purse and an impossible dream in my hand. I don't know why you should apologize." "Because I am exiling you, Dite. I intend to raze your patrimony and salt its earth. You emphatically do not need to thank me.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Dream, Brother, Sorry

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• Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Forget, Forget It

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• But you have said it too often, Mr. Benedict!" said Mrs. Perumal in an imperious tone that was quite out of character. "And if you continue in this vein, I'm afraid we'll be compelled to cut our visit short. Surely there are other establishments that would host an entire troup of guests - indefinitely and without reward - and not feel obliged to apologize for it!

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Character, Cutting, Guests

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• Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.

  Janet Fitch

  Taught, Made

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• I’m not leaving,” Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. “Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.

  Rachel Caine

  Princess, Eye, Boys

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.635, Penguin

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• Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Brother, Father, Teeth

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• If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our timidity and they feel awkward and we feel awkward. There is a certain shyness and awkwardness about us when we go to tell men and women of the things of eternal life, which react upon them until they become nervous and awkward too.

  Mildred Cable

  Men, People, Awkward

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• I think women have a lack of confidence. They often apologize; I was guilty of that too. When people have said, "Oh, look at your success," I would downplay it.

  Tory Burch

  Thinking, People, Guilty

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

  Neal Shusterman

  People, Wish, Should

  Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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