Apology Quotes - Page 23

• Forgiveness is the only way to heal

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Friendship, Way, Four Agreements

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• Hate is only conquered by love.

  Gautama Buddha

  Hate, Complacency, Hateful

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• You are not made of metaphors,
  Not apologies, not excuses.

  Sarah Kay

  Excuse, Metaphor, Made

  Sarah Kay (2016). “The Type”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• I make no apologies for being reasonable.

  Barack Obama

  Reasonable

  Remarks by the President in a Town Hall Meeting in Decorah, Iowa, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 15, 2011.

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• The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.

  Tim Cahill

  Dream, Lying, Eye

  Tim Cahill (1987). “Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.

  Jack Donovan

  Jobs, Believe, Emotional

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• Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counter proof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology.

  Abraham Coles

  Wine, Character, Rocks

  Abraham Coles (1882). “The Evangel: Or The Life of Our Lord in Verse”

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• The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

  Debbie Ford

  Excuse, Mask, Acts Of Courage

  "Courage: Overcoming Fear and Igniting Self-Confidence". Book by Debbie Ford and Wayne W. Dyer, 2012.

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• It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Humble, Example, Way

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Democrats had a secret meeting in Reid's office on Halloween night at 6:15 and they hatched this plot. They said the only way they could get this investigation going was to do it in secret. They say they've been frustrated for a year and a half in getting this investigation into whether the administration twisted the intelligence and they're making no apologies whatsoever for it.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Halloween, Night, Years

  "Partisan Anger Could Hobble Senate". abcnews.go.com. November 2, 2005.

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• I want a formal apology from the mayor.

  Antonio Gonzalez

  Want, Mayors, Formal

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• I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Suffering, Ends

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• A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold on to this book.

  Christine Schutt

  Book, Sublime, Letters

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• In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator, and no two shall reach the same conclusion; nor shall we, any more than other creative workers, be ever wholly satisfied with our accomplishment. Ever a season ahead of us floats the vision of perfection and herein lies its perennial charm.

  Louise Wilder

  Art, Lying, Men

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• It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him….[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Inspiration, Challenges, Temples

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• In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

  Louise Wilder

  Artist, Men, Garden

  Louise Beebe Wilder (1918). “Colour in My Garden”

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• Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our understanding of the world so that we can become a full and equal part of it rather than just a means of decorating it; to move towards a place where the mere act of being a girl isn't used against us as both a threat and an obligation. Through feminism, I have found a peace of sorts from the sense that my femaleness required a constant apology so that I might be given permission to pass through these narrow corridors.

  Clementine Ford

  Girl, Hurt, Women

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• I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sympathy, Morning, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.194, Penguin

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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

  Self, Long, Hatred

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• Somebody actually said that I'm the only entity on earth, other than rogue states, that has received an apology from the White House.

  Charles Krauthammer

  White, House, Earth

  "Krauthammer: "I'm The Only Entity On Earth, Other Than Rogue States, That Has Received An Apology From The White House"", www.realclearpolitics.com. August 1, 2012.

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• I think it may have been Tom Wolfe (if it wasn't, my apologies, Tom, and my apologies to whoever it was) who said in print once, 'David Carradine lives the life that Hunter Thompson only writes about.'

  David Carradine

  Live Life, Writing, Thinking

  David Carradine (2014). “The Kill Bill Diary: The Making of a Tarantino Classic as Seen Through the Eyes of a Screen Legend”, p.14, A&C Black

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• To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community and apology for a disgusting and despicable smear campaign.

  Justin Amash

  Community, Campaigns, My Family

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• I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Men, Things In Life, Rawness

  "First Lady LisaRaye McCoy-Misick: 'I'm Going to Get Through This'". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

  William James

  Opportunity, Men, Blood

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.134, Booklassic

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• The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast I can't remember what I said or what happened.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Night, Awards, Mind

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