Quotes About Apology

He had gone through life tiptoeing round Irene's sensitivities, apologising for being who he was, and now it was over. There would be no more apologies. He was free.

people are very slow to say sorry. I

telephoned Jamie the next morning at the earliest decent hour; nine o'clock, in her view. Isabel observed an etiquette of the telephone: a call before eight in the morning was an emergency; between eight and nine it was an intrusion; thereafter calls could be made until ten in the evening, although anything after nine-thirty required an apology for the disturbance. After ten one was into emergency time again.

Saying sorry does not make you look small—it makes you look big." "I think so too," said Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni. "But some people are small inside, and if you're small inside, you can't be big outside. It just won't come to you.

Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.

He had reframed himself in my mind as a thickheaded man who couldn't conceive that his words and actions hurt me deeply, benign as he may have thought they were. The consequences were that what he had done changed the way I felt about him. And a halfhearted apology wouldn't restore my love for him.

Just because we're friends, doesn't mean I shouldn't have to say sorry. You deserve that respect.

But" doesn't make an apology, it makes an excuse of your behaviour

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

I am so sorry that I hurt you. I know I'll make many more mistakes as time goes on, but I'll try not to make that one again.

God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

For present-day politicians there are only political points to be made from such statements, and the larger the sin the larger the outrage, the larger the apology and the larger the potential political gain for sorrow expressed. Through such statements political leaders can gain the benefits of magnanimity without the stain of involvement: the person making the apology had done nothing wrong and all the people who could have received the apology are dead.

They are an American Delegation who are doing a tour of the region to apologize for the crusades', said Arafat. Then he, and his guest, burst out laughing. They both knew that America had little or no involvement in the wars of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. But Arafat, at any rate, was happy to indulge the affliction of anyone who believed they had and use it to his own political advantage.

If Australia is forever opening up and apologising for its own past while China remains silent, the impression may eventually be instilled, in children in Australia as much as anywhere else, that Australia is the country with more to apologise for.

Dear Mr. Gibbon. Sorry I was absent. Here is some salted food. Please grade it the way you would a jenti piece of beef jerky.

The man was on his knees, trying to retrieve each of his ugly words that were now scattered on the floor. But, of course, it was too late.

I'm sorry that this made controlling your precious image harder, but if you're waiting for me to apologize for stopping threats to innocent people and property then you better have a toilet and a novel handy, cause it'll be a while.

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.

Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh..apologiz e..let go of what you can't change.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

My life is not an apology, but a life.

You don't know where life's gonna take you. Sometimes it takes you getting carried out of a club and then into a booth as an apology for it.