Apology Quotes - Page 8

• I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have been sent and apologies made and everyone else had moved on. Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions

  Reif Larsen

  Ideas, Long, Feelings

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.317, Penguin

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• It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Book, Writing, Simple

  "The Girl in Blue". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1970.

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• It was a trap after all,” Alric said. He turned to Royce. “My apologies for doubting your sound paranoia.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Doubt, Sound, Paranoia

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “The Crown Conspiracy”, p.132, Ridan Publishing

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• So what did you bring? Lip gloss and a hairbrush?” Smirking, she unpacked the sandwiches Mort's cook had made for her, along with an ample slice of chocolate cake. “You owe me an apology.” “Omigod, it's a feast! Okay, you're forgiven.

  Jana Oliver

  Cake, Chocolate, Sandwiches

  Jana Oliver (2012). “Forgiven”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Whoa there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Weren't you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you people did was... graze hands or something." "Then how do you explain all the Abnegation children?" Tobias raises his eyebrows. "They are brought into being by sheer force of will," the woman on the arm of the chair interjects. "Didn't you know that, Tobias?" "No, I wasn't aware." He grins. "My apologies.

  Veronica Roth

  Children, Men, Hands

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• Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds other ways to tell her, his fingers leaving faint trails of ink in their wake. He savors every sound he elicits from her. The entire room trembles as they come together. And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Silence, Leaving, Together

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• I’m sorry, my lady,” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.

  Shannon Hale

  Sorry, Offending, Arms

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.186, A&C Black

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• Erin was right. Apologies could come too late.

  Tammara Webber

  Too Late, Erin, Late

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• John rose to his feet and apologized to Holiday. Her mom seethed. Her dad tried to talk to her seething mom. Holiday tried to touch everyone. Burnett continued to glare green daggers at John, proving how hard it was for a vampire to accept an apology. Not that she blamed him. Kill him. Kill him. She cheered the vampire on. Lucas hadn't stopped scowling at Derek and Derek hadn't stopped ignoring Lucas.

  C.C. Hunter

  Mom, Dad, Holiday

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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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• I’ll accept your apology on one condition.” He folded his arms across his chest. “Anything?” “You trust me.

  J. Lynn

  Arms, Trust Me, Accepting

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• The sense that in his mother's view, he had let down his family just by being who he was... was a failure of acceptance that he was never going to get over. He just wanted to live, honestly and out front, with no apology. Like everyone else. To love who he loved, be who he was… but society had a different standard, and as he always feared, his parents were a part of that.

  J.R. Ward

  Mother, Acceptance, Views

  "Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood".

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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 Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed. The Democrats are utopians. They seek to create an America so fair and non-judgmental that life becomes an unbearable series of apologies. Together, the two parties function like giant down comforters, allowing a candidate to disappear into the enveloping softness, protecting them from exposure to the harsh weather of independent thought.

  Jon Stewart

  Party, Independent, Past

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• I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary.

  Chester Crocker

  Thinking, Rivalry, States

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• Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Forgiveness, Sorry, Revenge

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• History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.

  Albert Pollard

  People, History, Age

  Albert Pollard (2018). “Henry viii”, p.199, Ozymandias Press

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• I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together.
  The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

  Michael Howard

  Wise, Clever, Military

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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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• 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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• Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Yoga, Effort, Accepting

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

  Fulton Oursler

  Moving On, Regret, Fear

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• Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Hard Times

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• The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion.

  Barbara Cubin

  Political, President, Politics

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

  Libba Bray

  Cruise, Amen, Toms

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