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Quotes About Apology

Now that hurts. I'm sorry to say it, Cyprus, but you're off my Christmas-card list." Greener checked his sheet. "Love to shoot the shit with you all day, farm boy, but I gots some grits to deliver." Smiling, he rode the elevator out of view.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people apologize to corpses?
~ Gregory Benford
The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.
~ Gregory Maguire
Isn't there a saying that friends are God's apology for families?
~ Gretta Mulrooney
Even when apologising, this guy turns on the charm. And the worst thing is that it works. She had reached a point in her life where she no longer expected anything from men, though that didn't stop her from falling in love with them.
~ Guillaume Musso
Aaargh...that'll teach me to eat pig in the promised land. Sorry Baby Jesus.
~ Guy Delisle
After someone apologizes to you, don't lecture them. Remember that cruel words deeply hurt.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Sorry doesn't mean anything. When you trusted them not to hurt you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Asking for forgiveness is humiliating and doesn't fix anything. The solution is not to ask for forgiveness, but to avoid the outbursts that make excuses mandatory.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Yes, a person can accept your apology and forgive you for what you've said, but they will never forget how you made them feel at that very moment.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
To my Family and Friends I'm sorry for the unhealed parts of me that in turn hurt you. It was never a lack of love for you. Only a lack of love for myself.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
To my dear wife....I know living with me was never easy, I know I was a ass and sometimes grouchy, and hard to live with, but you did. I've always loved you even though I never showed it. So if I don't get a chance to tell you. know I Love You
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
A chastened Wilson wrote a letter of apology on the official stationery of the New Jersey executive mansion, expressing himself "very much mortified" by his mistake.
~ James M. McPherson
Ari! Jeb had finally seen his son. He rushed to Ari's side and knelt next to him. Looking stunned, he gathered Ari's hulking form and held him to his chest. I'm so sorry. I saw his mouth shape the words, though I couldn't hear them. I'm so sorry. He bent over Ari's form, mindless of his vulnerable position.
~ James Patterson
Excuse me, sir, you got dog poop on your shoe.
~ James Patterson
I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.
~ Romola Garai
To me, as I see it, reparations would be something that is fairly specific to the descendants of slaves, and it would also be an official apology from the United States government for slavery.
~ Julian Castro
I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.
~ Brian Bosworth
One of the many things I regret is that I hurt so many people by giving them nasty nicknames, and above all that I was unkind to the children of celebrities.
~ Perez Hilton
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
~ Jack Kerouac
Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.
~ Amy Dickinson
No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable.
~ Melina Marchetta
I think women have a lack of confidence. They often apologize; I was guilty of that too. When people have said, "Oh, look at your success," I would downplay it.
~ Tory Burch
Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
~ Yoko Ono