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Quotes About Apology

The words are all gone, the time's been too long but it's not too late to say I'm sorry to a friend
~ Edwin McCain
I really believe it's time for some of us to stop apologizing for God and start apologizing to Him for being embarrassed by the ways He has chosen to reveal Himself
~ Francis Chan
I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time... I'll give it right back to you, one of these days
~ Jimi Hendrix
My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.
~ Mika Brzezinski
When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one's anger.
~ Anne Bronte
Its easily done, replied he, with a faint smile, bordering on a sneer: to abuse your friend and knock him on the head, without any assignable cause, and then tell him the deed was not quite correct, but it's no matter whether he pardons it or not.
~ Anne Bronte
I am sorry. I can not invite you home for Christmas because I am Irish and my family is mad
~ Anne Enright
Mercy is radical kindness. Mercy means offering or being offered aid in desperate straits. Mercy is not deserved. It involves absolving the unabsolvable, forgiving the unforgivable. Mercy brings us to the miracle of apology, given and accepted, to unashamed humility when we have erred or forgotten.
~ Anne Lamott
Mercy is radical kindness. Mercy means offering or being offered aid in desperate straits. Mercy is not deserved. It involves absolving the unabsolvable, forgiving the unforgivable. Mercy brings us to the miracle of apology, given and accepted, to unashamed humility when we have erred or forgotten. Charge it to our heads and not our hearts, as the elders in black churches have long said.
~ Anne Lamott
And I am aware of her failings as well. She was impatient, she did not tolerate foolishness or indecision. Too often she did not listen to the views of others, and she was hasty in her judgment, but when she was wrong she apologized." His voice softened and he blinked rapidly. "She was a creature of high idealism
~ Anne Perry
Don't go, he said, and his voice was so soft and imploring that it took my breath away. But I was already going. I barely heard him call out to me: I need you. You're the only friend I have. How tragic those words! I wanted to say I was sorry, sorry for all of it. But it was too late now for that. And besides, I think he knew. All life seemed utterly unbearable to me now.
~ Anne Rice
How dreadful that must have been for Aaron, picking up the trash of my life, with no word of apology from me.
~ Anne Rice
A need to apologize stole over me again, perhaps because Lestat seemed lost in his judgment of the place.
~ Anne Rice
Everything dressed in flesh can yield a dizzling beauty if you concentrate on it long enough, and his beauty leapt out without apology.
~ Anne Rice
Sometimes Willa felt she'd spent half her life apologizing for some man's behavior. More than half her life, actually. First Derek and then Peter, forever charging ahead while Willa trailed behind picking up the pieces and excusing and explaining.
~ Anne Tyler
Sometimes Willa felt she'd spent half her life apologizing for some man's behavior. More than half her life
~ Anne Tyler
Do what you think is right and apologize later.
~ Scott Wilson
Atunci când g?sim empatia de a spune: "Îmi pare r?u, aceast? afacere nu e pentru mine. Iat? num?rul de telefon al concurentului meu", g?sim È™i libertatea de a face o treab? care conteaz?.
~ Seth Godin
El cambio no se realiza pidiendo permiso. El cambio se hace pidiendo disculpas después.
~ Seth Godin
When we find the empathy to say, "I'm sorry, this isn't for you, here's the phone number of my competitor," then we also find the freedom to do work that matters.
~ Seth Godin
I am wed now. My husband is Zane. I'm sorry.
~ Shana Abé
Is this how I will forever live my life, owing explanations and apologies? When did this manner of making my way through the world start?
~ Shani Mootoo
When Willy Brandt was chancellor of Germany, he sank to his knees at the Warsaw Ghetto in 1970 to apologize to Polish Jews for the Holocaust.
~ Shashi Tharoor
I, for one, dearly hope that a British prime minister will find the heart, and the spirit, to get on his or her knees at Jallianwala Bagh in 2019 and beg forgiveness from Indians in the name of his or her people for the unforgivable massacre
~ Shashi Tharoor