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Quotes About Apology

Do you know you're bleeding? he asked. I had a suspicion. That looks nasty. My apologies. What happened to your forehead? A fork. A fork? Yes, sir. I wish I'd been eating with a spoon. You stabbed yourself with a fork? It flipped. Flipped? The fork. A flipped fork? It flicked my forehead. Pausing in the counting of my change, he gave me a narrow look. That's right, I said. A flipped fork flicked my forehead.
~ Dean Koontz
But love flowed into the apology, to coddle and mollify the guilt.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
This was one of the little ways in which he said sorry. They were meant to add up each day.
~ Zadie Smith
Kiki began to giggle. Now Howard let go of Zora and held his wife instead, gripping he from behind. His arms could not go entirely around her, but still they walked in this manner down the small hill towards the gates of the park. This was one of the little ways in which eh said sorry. They were meant to add up each day.
~ Zadie Smith
Don't apologize. It's a sign of weakness. Captain Nathan Brittles, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
~ Zane Grey
Papa used to shake his head at this and say, "What's de use of me taking my fist to a poor weakly thing like a woman? Anyhow, you got to submit yourself to 'em, so there ain't no use in beating on 'em and then have to go back and beg 'em pardon.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I take accountability for my actions.
~ Rajon Rondo
Admit it America - 2008 was our national 'oops' moment!
~ Rick Perry
I will never, ever apologize for being passionate about the things that I believe in, and it is just that, it is just an opinion, and people don't have to share my opinion.
~ David Draiman
I didn't have anything to apologize for.
~ Bernard Ebbers
It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.
~ Swoosie Kurtz
I apologize when I'm wrong.
~ Donald Trump
In rock n' roll music, you almost have to apologize for being around more than four or five years. I don't know why.
~ Dickey Betts
I am not going to apologize for my service to the country.
~ Richard Painter
We teach our kids to be fair and things like that and if you make a mistake you apologize for it.
~ Ken Griffey Jr.
One of the values of a human being is to be honest and admit at times knowing when to apologize.
~ Pepe
I am done apologizing for being ambitious and I stand for all those women who don't want to apologize just because they are working.
~ Kashmira Shah
There's never really been a true apology for slavery.
~ Kenya Barris
How can you accept an apology from someone if they don't say what they did?
~ Samantha Ponder
Sometimes all you're looking for is an apology.
~ Ashleigh Murray
I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.
~ Howard Fast
Sorry Marion.
~ Unknown
Friends are God's apology for relations.
~ Hugh Kingsmill
Allez-vous au plus vite - crac ! Oh, désolé, laissez-moi vous mettre une attelle, monsieur.
~ Hugh Laurie