Best 528 quotes in «apology quotes» category

My life is an apology for the life of my father.

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

My life is not an apology, but a life.

My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

No apology is equal to the task set before it.

No sensible person ever made an apology.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

No apologies, no regrets.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable.

On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

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.

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes.

Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.

One of the challenges of the movie is there are no apologies or excuses.

One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong and disgraceful. It behooves us to consider if future geenrations will similarly regard the aims we most defend today.

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

Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it.

Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?

Regret is not an apology. I regret that I ran the stop sign, right, but, yeah, I'm not sorry for what I speaking. I regret that because I got a ticket. You can regret things and still not be sorry for them.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.

President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that -- Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore.

Progress occurs one apology at a time.

rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress.

Request an apology when you believe you deserve one, but don't get in a tug of war about it. Instead, be a role model and tender a genuine apology yourself when an apology is due. Your willingness to apologize can be contagious and models maturity for your partner. Also, your non-apologizing partner may use a nonverbal way to reconnect after a fight, defuse the tension, or show you he's in a new place and wants to repair a disconnection. Accept the olive branch however it's offered.

Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

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

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.

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.

Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth.

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.

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

Some days I will be a stuttering apology and you won't know how to handle all the things I've done wrong.

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

So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however." "My apologies to your horse.

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