Quotes About Apology

had just apologized to me. Hell must have been experiencing some climate change.

He doesn't trust me—and I'm sorry to say he has reason." He looked at Samuel. "I don't think he'll trust you either—not another male when his daughter is there." He turned back to me. "But you have his scent all over your van, and he has a picture of you in his bedroom." Samuel gave me a sharp look. "In his bedroom?

Marsilia had just apologized to me. Hell must have been experiencing some climate change.

an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. (Adam)

He laughed as he bled down his shirt, and I babbled apologies. He let his head fall back against the truck door with a thump. "Leave off, Mercy. It'll close up quick enough on its own." I backed up until I was sitting beside him—half-laughing myself, because although it probably hurt quite a bit, he was right that his injury would heal in a few minutes. It was minor, and

Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone—'I didn't mean to startle her.

I don't mean to make you mad, I just keep doing it by accident.

Shiara glanced up at me, then sighed. "Oh, all right. I'm sorry, Suz." The lizard twisted his head around. "You are?" He ran around the branch again and peered at her upside down from underneath the limb. "No, you're not at all. How disappointing. I accept." He ran back up on top of the branch.

Et il partira. Il sortira de sa vie comme l'on sort d'une pièce en s'excusant de s'être trompé de porte.

I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.

Four lines, and the world went quiet. I'm sorry for telling everyone about your mum , read the first line. I miss being your friend , read the second. Are you okay? read the third. I see you , read the fourth, with the I underlined about a hundred times.

The wind picks up a little more (Terribly sorry, I imagine it saying; apparently, the wind is British, wondering how it got all the way over here)

I'm sorry for telling about your mom, read the first line. I miss being your friend, read the second. Are you okay? read the third. I see you, read the fourth, with the I underlined about a hundred times.

Apology now is of little consequence," she said, her voice flat and chill as slate. "Anything you say at this point cannot be trusted. You know I am well and truly angry, so you are in the grip of fear. "This means I cannot trust any word you say, as it comes from fear. You are clever, and charming, and a liar. I know you can bend the world with your words. So I will not listen." "Vashet to Kvothe

She brought Foxen with, of course. She would hardly trust a place like that to behave in the dark. But since a proper birching of the place required two hands, Auri tied Foxen to a long lock of her hanging hair. Foxen's dignity was somewhat bruised by this, and Auri kissed him in sincere apology for the affront. But they both knew he took a certain secret joy from swingling wildly all about, making the shadows spin and skirl.

didn't think I could trust you," I said. "I was wrong, and I regret it. It wasn't the clearest thinking I've ever done.

I'm sorry? Congratulations?" He made a shy smile at me. "Do I buy you a bandage or a beer?

Madge didn't appear to be around. I had no idea what I would say to Madge when I finally saw her. 'Sorry I killed a couple of guys out by your pool, and oh by the way I need a refill on my coffee' didn't

I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that it would be wrong of me to try to defend myself. Nevertheless, there is at least the possibility of an explanation.

Asking forgiveness from someone is a complicated affair, a delicate balancing act between stiff-necked pride and tearful remorse, and unless you can truly open up to the other person, every apology sounds hollow and false.

As the philosopher Pamela Hieronymi says, "A past wrong against you, standing in your history without apology, atonement, retribution, punishment, restitution, condemnation, or anything else that might recognize it as a wrong, makes a claim. It says, in effect, that you can be treated in this way, and that such treatment is acceptable

In On Apology, Aaron Lazare offers a similar sentiment: "what makes an apology work is the exchange of shame and power between the offender and the offended. By apologizing, you take the shame of your offense and redirect it to yourself.

Apologizing is a concrete action that deepens trust, respect and intimacy