Apology Quotes - Page 7

• I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior, which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

  Kate Moss

  Business, People, Want

  "Kate Moss: Sorry I let people down". www.cnn.com. September 22, 2005.

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• And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

  Khalil Gibran

  Grief, Heart, Winter

  Khalil Gibran, “On Pain”

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• My domineering lover made no apologies for his caveman tendencies.

  Sylvia Day

  Lovers, Made, Tendencies

  Sylvia Day (2013). “Entwined with You”, p.174, Penguin

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• The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.

  Kevin Rudd

  New Relationship, Responsibility, Opportunity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.

  Kevin Rudd

  Lying, Challenges, Gaps

  "Late Night Live" with Phillip Adams, www.abc.net.au. August 4, 2010.

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• Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

  Mort Sahl

  Lying, Differences, Demise

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• Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

  Rick Santorum

  Sacrifice, America, Arrogance

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• I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Sorry, Science, Technology

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• It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.

  Celso Amorim

  Would Be, Shock, Concrete

  "Straw 'very sorry' over shooting", www.cnn.com. July 26, 2005.

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• One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

  Maya Angelou

  Christmas, Thank You, Karma

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• But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe that serving the best ends of humanity means getting out in the middle of it just as it is, not staying home writing checks and thinking hopeful thoughts. The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are. And you're damned right that's idealistic. No apology. When idealism goes into the trash as junk mail, we're finished.

  Robert Fulghum

  Distance, Believe, Mean

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.173, Ivy Books

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• I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to be good to me again, to forgive me and love me. Sometimes I had the feeling that she hurt herself when she turned cold and rigid. As if what she was yearning for was the warmth of my apologies, protestations, and entreaties. Sometimes I thought she just bullied me. But either way, I had no choice.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Hurt, Mistake, Choices

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.49, Vintage

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• Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jewels, Portions, Rings

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

  Michael Chabon

  Simple, Accepting, I Apologize

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.149, Open Road Media

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• Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

  Kristin Cashore

  Father, Fire, Way

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.56, Penguin

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• Do you have any idea how much I love you?” he asked. ”Enough to accept my apologies?” I suggested in a small voice. ”Heck no,” he said, and pushed off from the wall, stalking forward. When he reached me, he put his hands up and touched the sides of my neck with the tips of his fingers – as if I were something fragile. ”No apologies from you,” he told me, his voice soft enough to melt my knees and most of my other parts.

  Patricia Briggs

  Wall, Love You, Hands

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.1345, Penguin

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• He sighed. " I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?" "No.

  Patricia Briggs

  Thinking, Mercy, Circumstances

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.76, 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

  Hands, Trying, Friendly

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

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• It's awkward and silent as I wait for you to say, what I need to hear now, your sincere apology. When you mean it, I'll believe it, if you text it I'll delete, let's be clear. Oh, I'm not coming back, you're taking 7 steps here.

  Miley Cyrus

  Believe, Mean, Waiting

  "One Day As A Lion And Dr. Dog". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. July 22, 2008.

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• I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Expectations, Waiting, Shadow

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• She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Trying, Path, Shifting

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.65, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.

  Ernest Rutherford

  War, Believe, Atoms

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• I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry.

  Hwang Woo-suk

  Sorry, Miserable, Difficult

  "Disgraced stem cell scientist blames researchers". www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2006.

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• Amen, sister, ... All apologies to Tom Cruise.

  Libba Bray

  Cruise, Amen, Toms

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• I shrugged. “I guess that guys who’d never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would,” I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late.

  Tammara Webber

  Believe, Hard Times, Guy

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