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Quotes About Apology

Apologizing is a magic move. Only the hardest of hearts will fail to forgive a person who admits they were wrong. Apology is where behavioral change begins.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
Tell him the truth and keep it short. No one actually cares about all the reasons you did something wrong. It's a half-assed way of saying you're sorry, not sorry. Admit what you did and stand in it.
~ Unknown
Sheba, who didn't especially like me, although she did serve me cookies when I was here before. I'd managed to get rid of them. My mother's cookies had spoiled me for anyone else's. I think I crumbled up Sheba's and tossed them off the porch. "How are you, Mr. Queen? I'm real sorry to
~ Martha Grimes
Amena said, Sorry, ART. Apology accepted, ART said. I felt its attention shift in the feed. (Imagine it staring meaningfully at me.) (It could stare all it wanted, I'm not apologizing.)
~ Martha Wells
He wanted to give her a chance to yell at him in private before he apologized.
~ Martha Wells
Upon my word, Watson!" said Holmes at last with an unsteady voice, "I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one's self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry." "You know," I answered with some emotion, for I had never seen so much of Holmes's heart before, "that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.
~ Unknown
Americans' reputation for friendliness is the absence of physicality. In the United States, no one ever touches anyone else and if they do so by accident, most apologize immediately. Physical contact is seen by many as analogous to trespassing on posted land,
~ Martin Lindstrom
Do not underestimate the importance of stating the obvious. Most people don't because they think it goes without saying, but it does need saying. Like 'I love you' and 'I'm sorry' and 'I can't live without you'. You know, that kind of bullshit.
~ Unknown
The man had the intelligence of the average fence post, the personality of a wounded warthog, and the stubbornness of a flea-bitten mule. Grace silently apologized to all the animals she'd just insulted.
~ Mary Connealy
St. Peter scold me saying son, where have you been? And he saw me with you and asked why are you with that person? and I said to him sorry St. Peter, I though it was heaven.
~ Anonymous
I say 'I'm sorry.' It usually disarms them.
~ Sarah Silverman
Im sorry for being me. I wont ever do it again.
~ Janeane Garofalo
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
~ Erich Segal
Giving a sincere apology and using these ways to say sorry can help restore your relationship with your husband or wife, and can help you grow in humility, as well. And its critical to saving marriage.
~ Unknown
Saying something mean and then claiming you're not yourself doesn't take the hurt away.
~ Mary Downing Hahn
I trust you all slept well," I said, deliberately keeping my tone light. I returned Malich's glare with a tight-lipped grin. "Yes, we did," Kaden answered quickly. "I'm sorry to hear that.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I beg your forgiveness, Your Eminence. I would not truly feed your face to the hogs. It might make them sick.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Wait," I said, and they paused mid-stride. "Thank you. Rafe told me you were the best of Dalbreck's soldiers. Now I know that he didn't overestimate your abilities." I turned to Sven. "And I'm sorry I threatened to feed your face to the hogs." Sven smiled. "All in a day's work, Your Highness," he said, and then he bowed. *
~ Mary E. Pearson
Forget the garden rake. Remember that time you dived over the desk at that guy in moot court? Had him by the throat in two seconds flat, that's what I heard." "You heard wrong." "And they suspended you for how long?" Antonia innocently asked. "A day. And I apologized. Actually I crawled like a slug and ate dirt," Bree said ruefully. "But that was years ago, and have I pulled a stunt like that again? No, I have not.
~ Unknown
Feeling one ought to apologize is not quite the same thing as saying 'I am sorry' " -Penelope
~ Unknown
Cassawoof no teeth, no bite, sorry, sorry, sorry.
~ Unknown
Forgive me for being at my toilette,
~ Unknown
I'm sorry. This is diary, not enlightenment.
~ Unknown
No nos miramos de verdad. No nos tocamos de verdad, apenas nos dijimos nada. Sus ojos demasiado grandes en la piel de porcelana, y esa manera extraña de pedir perdón por sonreír. Sus labios, que revoloteaban como un copo de nieve perdido en una playa estival, y yo, que trataba de cazarlo con mi nevera demasiado grande. Un cataclismo disfrazado de beso en miniatura. Más poderoso que un ejército de rayos. El beso más pequeño nunca visto. Impacto de luz y luego nada.
~ Mathias Malzieu