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Quotes About Apology

I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
she cried and cried and cried, there weren't any napkins nearby so I ripped the page from the book - I don't speak. I'm sorry. - and used it to dry her cheeks, my explanation and apology ran down her face like mascara (..)
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I ripped the page from my book - I don't speak, I'm sorry. - and used it to dry her cheeks, my explanation and apology ran down her face like mascara.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I don't speak," he wrote, "I'm sorry.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I don't speak, I wrote. I'm sorry. She looked at the piece of paper, then at me, then back at the piece of paper, she covered her eyes with her hands and cried, tears seeped between her fingers and collected in the little webs, she cried and cried and cried, there weren't any napkins nearby, so I ripped the page from the book -I don't speak. I'm sorry.-and used it to dry her cheeks, my explanation and apology ran down her face like mascara,[...]
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Je hoeft je heus niet te verontschuldigen voor Vrolijkheid en Blijheid enzo. Die dingen komen nu eenmaal voor. Sombere raad van Iejoor
~ A. A. Milne
A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it.
~ A. W. Hare & J.C. Hare
Did I miss?" you asked. "You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon." "I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.
~ A.A. Milne
I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
~ Aaron Carter
So be it.' She faded into silence. I could feel what she wanted to say. She wished to apologise for letting her anger get the better of her, and for sending us here to die, but the word 'sorry' was too alien to an inquisitor's tongue. 'Hyperion?' +Mistress?+ 'Hiljah kah uhtganjen mev tarvahettan.' My laughter carried over the vox. Greet the end with courage. Fenrisian poetry at its blunt best.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
I'm so sorry,' Stone said. I don't know whether he was speaking to me, or Ghosh, or the universe. It wasn't enough, but it was about time.
~ Abraham Verghese
There it was, Hema must have thought; it was both the sorry and the thank-you that was so long overdue, and the funny thing was that at this moment, she didn't care. It no longer mattered. She didn't even look his way.
~ Abraham Verghese
Forgive me," she says now. "For what?" "For everything. Sometimes we can wound each other in ways we don't intend.
~ Abraham Verghese
It's important for these youngsters to realize that if they're genuinely sorry their feelings of remorse should be translated into action. The "repeat offender" can be told any of the following: "Sorry means behaving differently." "Sorry means making changes." "I'm glad to hear you're sorry. That's the first step. The second step is to ask yourself what can be done about it.
~ Adele Faber
Utterly disgraceful was NBC Video's interruption of the religious service in order to show a chimpanzee," railed the New York Times. "No apology can be adequate.
~ Adrian Tinniswood
You have to remember that your mother is unaware of what she's done and always will be," Margot continued. "If you're waiting for an apology or gratitude, don't. You have hard work ahead. You need to forgive her and move on. Happiness is a choice that you have to make for yourself.
~ Adrienne Brodeur
The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, not that he is a thief. #ReasonbehindApology
~ Proverb
We should have loved her back, openly and without apology, but between the teen heart and the teen brain, only so much gets done.
~ Quan Barry
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
I'm okay now, just embarrassed. Sorry about this humiliating display." "Display?" Marvin snorts. "What are you talking about? We're human people; human people cry. It's a good thing.
~ Quentin Tarantino
white folks can never comprehend a situation where they can't be forgiven for past transgressions).
~ Quentin Tarantino
Shit, you shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.
~ Quentin Tarantino
I am sorry,' he whispers. 'I am sorry I treated you so ill. I thought only to protect Duval.' 'It was not I who was poisoning him,' I say. 'No, but you had stolen his heart and I was afraid you would rip it from his chest when you left.
~ R.L. LaFevers