Quotes About Apology

Don't be sorry, Ms. Grambs. Be worthy of it.

Zodra hij me zijn kant op zag komen, excuseerde hij zich bij de groep met wie hij stond te praten en verdween hij het jongenstoilet in. Waarschijnlijk dacht hij dat hij me daarmee had afgeschud. Blijkbaar kende hij me niet heel goed.

En ik zal voor altijd spijt hebben van wat ik je zus heb aangedaan.

I thought I could wait, but I can't. Sorry.

I can't wait. I thought i could, but i can't. Sorry

I'm sorry. I love you. But not sorry I love you because I could never be sorry for that.

Come back. I love you. I'm sorry.

Then there was a little silence. Robert was not proud of himself for having been so cross, and the others were not proud of him either. You often notice that sort of silence when someone has said something it ought not to—and everyone else holds its tongue and waits for the one who oughtn't to have said it is sorry.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.  But, if you be ashamed of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.  You must go up and offer to kiss her, and say—you know best what to say; only do it heartily, and not as if you thought her converted into a stranger by her grand dress. 

By God!  Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.

It was a mistake. You didn't try to hurt anyone.

a bit of a dirty fighter, quick with cutting words that he later regrets and doesn't really mean. Then again, I wonder if there isn't always a grain of truth in them, somewhere

If you're sorry, folks can tell. No use piling on the verbiage.

The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.

Don't hate me forever, Arty, whispered Holly. I couldn't bear that.

I'm sorry, Arty,' she whispered into his ear. 'Sorry for what?' 'For everything. For the last few months, I haven't been myself. But things are going to change. Time to stop living in the past.' Artemis felt a tear on his cheek. He wasn't sure whose tear it was.

I know what the Book says," snapped Root. "I just wish you weren't so gung ho about it. If I didn't know you better, I'd say there was some human blood in you." "There's no call for that," pouted Cudgeon. "I'm only doing my job." "Point taken," conceded the commander. "I'm sorry." You didn't often hear Root apologizing, but then it had been a deeply offensive insult.

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Uno no tiene por qué pedir disculpas si quiere ser el dueño de su propia alma... para bien o para mal. Cuando ya todo se ha dicho y hecho, es todo cuanto queda.

You did not have to apologize for wanting to own your own soul. Your soul belonged to you—for better or worse. When all was said and done, it was all you had.

The color of a polar bear's skin? Is? In fact? BLACK!" she cried. Some passengers cheered, but several looked crestfallen. "I'm so sorry," an older man implored his wife. "I really did think it was pink." "I know you did, honey," said his wife morosely, peering into her empty glass.

I meant no offense." "Yet you offend so well.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.