Apology Quotes - Page 12

• Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror

  Jonathan Lethem

  Mirrors, Want, Habit

  Jonathan Lethem (2003). “Gun, with Occasional Music”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

  Chinua Achebe

  Procrastination, Men, Lazy Man

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Girls at War”, p.42, Anchor

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• "You already said that," Sabine said, folding the wrapper back from her burger. "You said it a lot, actually. Which supports my theory that apologies are basically pointless. They don't fix anything, right? That's why I rarely bother."

  Rachel Vincent

  Support, Burgers, Folding

  "Before I Wake". Book by Robert Wiersema, 2006.

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• We apologize for the fact that the cartoons undeniably have offended many Muslims.

  Carsten Juste

  Cartoon, Facts, Apologizing

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• For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

  Robert Breault

  Regret, Hundred, Persons

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• Accept life, and you must accept regret.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Regret, Acceptance, Accepting

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• Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

  Karl Hess

  Peace, War, Government

  "Why Americans Hate Politics" by E.J. Dionne, Jr., Simon & Schuster, (p. 267), 2004.

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• Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection.

  Wes Fesler

  Perfection, Mankind, Courses

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• I don't see the point in apologizing to someone who remains angry enough to throw me off a cliff...unless we are standing by a cliff.

  Wes Fesler

  Cliffs, Apologizing, Enough

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• I don't need to apologize for my behavior you need to apologize for not understanding.

  Bar Refaeli

  Understanding, Needs, Apologizing

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• I also want to apologize to my fans, to the kids, everyone who's affected by the situation me and my wife are in.

  Ray Rice

  Kids, Wife, Fans

  "Ray Rice's wife slams his punishment for violence against her" By Ashley Fantz, Josh Levs, Catherine E. Shoichet, www.cnn.com. September 16, 2014.

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• Sometimes you forgive people simply becuase you still want them in your life.

  Ally Carter

  People, Forgiving, Want

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• It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine. First and most important, my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.

  William J. Clinton

  Hurt, People, Sorrow

  "President: 'I have repented'" by John King, www.cnn.com. September 11, 1998.

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• You know, I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through, and I'm concerned about more hate and more rage and more anger coming through, not just towards me but towards a black/white conflict.

  Michael Richards

  Sorry, Hate, White

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• I want to say to each of you, simply, and directly, I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior I engaged in.

  Tiger Woods

  Sorry, Selfish, Want

  "Tiger Woods Mea Culpa, Media Reaction Examined". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 19, 2010.

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• If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.

  Rachel McAdams

  Hurt, Sorry, Eye

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 23, 2004.

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• I believe, very strongly, that it is the responsible, adult, recreational, no apologies necessary, 'it just makes my music more fun,' recreational use of marijuana is a civil liberty.

  Rick Steves

  Fun, Believe, Marijuana

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• I actually have a long apology letter from Robert Brustein, saying, "I'm so sorry this happened to you. I didn't realize the people who were running the acting department at the drama school hated actors." They did. And they were fired when I graduated.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Running, Sorry, Drama

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Book, Tree, Forests

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• Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Positive, Girl

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (191?). “Society and solitude, Letters and social aims”

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• Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Art, Order

  Julia Cameron (2001). “God is No Laughing Matter”, p.158, Penguin

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• There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians

  Dennis Prager

  Christian, Leader, Massacres

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• When something feels real, you don’t make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.

  Rihanna

  Real, Feel Good, Noise

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• In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the "romance of possibility".

  Louise Wilder

  Garden, Artist, Romance

  "Colour in My Garden".

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• In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.

  Socrates

  Reputation, Found, Investigation

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