I Am Sorry Quotes

• Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

  Charles Osgood

  Sarcastic, Sorry, Mean

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• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

  H. G. Wells

  Wise, Sorry, War

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• Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Im Sorry, Apology, Positivity

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• The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Teamwork, Im Sorry

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• The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

  Leon Uris

  Sorry, Apology, Apologizing

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• True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Regret

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.59, BookBaby

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• Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.70, Penguin

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  Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Clever

  "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.

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  Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Im Sorry, Being Yourself

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• In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

  Margaret Laurence

  Funny, Family, Sarcastic

  Margaret Laurence (2014). “A Bird in the House: Stories”, p.90, University of Chicago Press

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• An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

  Lynn Johnston

  Im Sorry, Apology, Apologizing

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• Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

  Douglas Horton

  Im Sorry, Selfish, Apologizing

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• When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

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• Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

  Lee Atwater

  Im Sorry, People, Way

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

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• You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

  E. W. Howe

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Apology

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• But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

  Stephen King

  Im Sorry, Sorrow, Emotion

  Stephen King (1974). “Carrie”

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• Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Bitterness, Provoked

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.74, Heron Dance Press

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• I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

  Anthony Weiner

  Im Sorry, Hurt, Mistake

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• True sorrow is as rare as true love.

  Stephen King

  Im Sorry, Sorrow, Being Sorry

  Stephen King (1974). “Carrie: A Novel of a Girl with a Frightening Power”, Scarborough, Ont. : New American Library of Canada

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• Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.

  Bryan Davis

  Im Sorry, Heart, Apology

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• I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

  William Whipple

  Sorry, Apology, Long

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• I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

  Sitting Bull

  Im Sorry, Native American, Saying Sorry

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• You can always say sorry but the real apology is when you hear the sadness in their voice and see the look in their eyes. And you realize that they have hurt themselves just as much.

  Kid Cudi

  Hurt, Sorry, Real

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• It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.

  Stephen Stills

  Lonely, Hurt, Sorry

  Song: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, 2007

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• It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

  Archibald Alexander

  Im Sorry, Heart, Apology

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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