Quotes About Apology

What can I do, I like Balzac better than Dickens, forgive me.

After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid.

Oh! Zu viele Negationen! Oh! Oh! Zu kompliziert! Verzeiht, dass ich dem Fisch in eurem Schädel solch diffiziles Zeug zumute!

I've been very self-indulgent and weird and I'm sorry. But I'd really like to die.

I'm sorry for taking your life, friend.

You look just fine." "Ah, 'just fine.' Exactly what a woman loves to hear." "I'm sorry," he said. "I meant to say that you look like a barbarian who just finished killing her seventeenth rabid tiger to make a necklace out of their incisors.

Identify yourselves. You on the left, who are you?" "My name is Gagaril," the man said. "I'm sorry," Lightsong said. The man flushed. "I was named after my father, Your Grace." "After he what? Spent an unusual amount of time at the local tavern?

He didn't recruit me," Cett pointed out. "I got pulled by my balls into this little fiasco." "I wish I cared enough to apologize," Elend said, staring at them.

He grabbed the sword from the man he had felled, holding the weapon in unpracticed hands, staring down a much larger force. "I was wrong about that one, Mistress," Sazed said softly. "I ... apologize." Vin smiled.

I'm sorry I drove you to suicide. Here's some bread.

All right, all right. No need to get grouchy just because I insulted you.

What…what are you?" The guard's voice had lost its certainty. "Spirit or man?" "What am I?" Szeth whispered, a bit of Light leaking from his lips as he looked past the man down the long hallway. "I'm…sorry.

Here's what's interesting—especially for those who automatically think, You should feel like a terrible friend! or A little shame will help you keep your act together next time. When we feel shame, we are most likely to protect ourselves by blaming something or someone, rationalizing our lapse, offering a disingenuous apology, or hiding out.

shaming someone we love around vulnerability is the most serious of all security breaches. Even if we apologize, we've done serious damage because we've demonstrated our willingness to use sacred information as a weapon.

While shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying, guilt is negatively correlated with these outcomes. Empathy and values live in the contours of guilt, which is why it's a powerful and socially adaptive emotion. When we apologize for something we've done, make amends, or change a behavior that doesn't align with our values, guilt—not shame—is most often the driving force.

How can we apologize for something we are, rather than something we did?

And shaming someone we love around vulnerability is the most serious of all security breaches. Even if we apologize, we've done serious damage because we've demonstrated our willingness to use sacred information as a weapon.

Apologizing and backing that up with behavior change is normailzed in our organization from onboarding. While some leaders consider apologizing to be a sign of weakness, we teach it as a skill and frame the willingness to apologize and make amends as brave leadership.

Brie then thanked him warmly, allowing her momentary indignation to be soothed by this apology.

He steeled himself against whatever she'd come to say or ask or accuse, but also against the unhelpful and complicated tenderness he felt toward her. He should have called her. He should have thanked her for every kindness she'd shown him. He was about to apologize - for anything, for everything - when she gave him a little smirk, a private and sleepy-eyed expression he recalled with wonder and regret. Then she turned to shut the door, to lock it behind her. "Stranger," she said again. "Howdy.

Where and how did you propose? She bit her lip. Um... Callen ran a hand over Grace's hair. In bed as nature intended. He shot an apologetic glance his mother's direction. Sorry. She shook her head. That's okay. I figured out you've slept together. For some reason that struck Mallory as hysterical. The pregnancy gave it away, right?

persons who suspect they have given others cause of offence, are apt to conclude they are offended;

Anybody could have seen you. I was just unlucky.' He realised what he'd said and added hurriedly, 'I mean not unlucky to have seen you that way. I mean you're very pretty, beautiful and all that, no spots or anything...' - Henry

Years ago I was at a function, and I must have said something really rude to Paul Daniels the magician. I can't recall what I said, but I remember him looking utterly crestfallen. I'm not that sort of person, but I must have said something very cutting and belittling. Our paths haven't crossed since, but if they had, I would have said sorry to him.