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Quotes About Apology

A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.
~ Robert Brault
A woman's love can be violent. Sometimes they hurt a man worse than they think they have, worse than they mean to. Sometimes, they're even sorry afterwards.
~ Robert Jordan
Min, you're a friend," he protested. "I don't think of you as a woman." It was the wrong thing to say; he knew it as soon as the words left his mouth.
~ Robert Jordan
from Mr. Bell. Sorry, miss! Sorry isn't going to help matters any. You'd better go and look at the havoc that animal has made in my oats Ã¢â'¬Â¦ trampled them from center to circumference, miss. I am very sorry, repeated Anne firmly, but perhaps if you kept your fences in better repair Dolly might not have broken in. It is your part
~ L.M. Montgomery
It gives you a lovely, comfortable feeling to apologize and be forgiven, doesn't it?
~ L.M. Montgomery
I was very sorry that i had been in a temper --- but I was sorry because it was foolish and undignified, not because it was wicked.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.
~ Lance Armstrong
You ought to take more chances, I said. I took too many earlier, she said. I'm sorry.
~ Larry McMurtry
I'm sorry,' Finn mumbled, a global apology for everything he was, and everything he was not, and all the ways he couldn't let it go.
~ Laura Ruby
When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect
~ Laurell K Hamilton
Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan. I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one. He Spread his hands wide. My deepest apologies. When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
He said, softly, "Sorry, Jimmy." He still didn't cry. I would have cried. But then, women have more chemicals in their tear ducts. It makes us tear up easier than men. Honest.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
The anger washed away in the knowledge that I was a hypocrite. I don't know how much of it showed on my face, but Jean-Claude cocked his head to one side. "Thoughts are flying across your face, ma petite, but what thoughts?" I stared up at him. "I think I owe you an apology." His eyes widened. "Then this is a truly historic occasion. What are you apologizing for?" I
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Angel started to cry on the way. "I am so sorry, Anita." The thick Goth eye makeup started to run down her face like black tears. She needed to switch brands. Mine didn't run like that. Thank you, Dior.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I'm sorry I was such a cow this afternoon, Violet," Kelly says to me. "It was really nice of you to eat my pasta." "Paige put hers in her napkin," I say. "Oh really?" Kelly manages a giggle. "I should do that next time.
~ Lauren Henderson
If, said Jane, ignoring him as only Jane dared, someone were to speak to her; if someone were to suggest . . . Ah. Vaughn's lips compressed, as the whole fiasco suddenly fell into place. That's what you want of me. To play Hermes for you. We can't all be Zeus, Jane said apologetically. Prolonged exposure to Jane was enough to make anyone take to Bacchus. I'm afraid I've left my winged shoes at home.
~ Lauren Willig
I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am. ...It was my fault. Can I kill myself here, or should I do it outside, so the mess on your carpet doesn't upset your mother?
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Mother and Father apologize. They sing a show tune: 'What are we to do? What are we to do? She's so blue, we're just two. What, oh what, are we supposed to do?' In my headworld they jump on Principal Principal's desk and perform a tap-dance routine. A spotlight flashes on them. A chorus line joins in, and the guidance counselor dances around a spangled cane. I giggle. Zap. Back in their world.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Being broke is not a crime, nor is it proof of one's inadequacy as a writer or as a human being. If you go around with an attitude of implicit apology for being temporarily without funds, it's going to do you more harm than good.
~ Lawrence Block
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
~ Niels Bohr
Sorry has got to be the most over-used cliched get-out clause in the history of mankind. Tossed out flippantly without any real meaning or substance.
~ Siobhan Davis, Destiny Rising
in March 2000, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright offered an apology for the U.S. role in the August events. She offered carefully worded regrets for the fact that the United States had "played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular Prime Minister" in 1953.
~ Abbas Milani
I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.
~ Abraham Lincoln
How quickly all the advantages of technological civilisation are wiped out by a domestic squabble. At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and aeroplanes to Australasia, we would still have trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones and apologise for our tantrums?
~ Alain de Botton