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Quotes About Apologies

There is almost too much to say between us, Val. A thousand apologies will not change the past on either side.
~ Storm Constantine
Yoli, she said, I'm just saying that apologies aren't the bedrock of civilized society. All right! I said. I agree. But what is the bedrock of civilized society? Libraries, said Elf.
~ Miriam Toews
success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.
~ Napoleon Hill
Miss Clara, who wished me many happy returns but unfortunately would be unable to attend my birthday dinner.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In GOP land, apologies and resignations are never enough.
~ Andrew Breitbart
We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.
~ Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
For years I put up with Julián Bravo's mistreatment without calling it domestic violence, making excuses: It was an accident; he went too far because he'd had too much to drink; I provoked him; he had problems and he took them out on me, it won't happen again, he promised, he apologized. I
~ Isabel Allende
I curse you, even from the distance of these many years, for keeping me so hungry that if affected my brain and subordinated me to your evil. And my apologizes to the animals for comparing you to them, because surely animals are more humane.
~ Isabella Leitner
Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.
~ Stephen Kinzer
Annie cut off her apologies. "Why don't you see what you can do about his master's meals? Since you let me down with the rat poison idea, maybe you could find some deadly mushrooms?" Jaycie smiled. "He's not that bad Annie." So untrue.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
~ Vidal Sassoon
To Trump, being a billionaire means plating everything in gold and slapping his name everywhere in huge block letters. It means that he gets to say whatever pops into his head and never has to say he is sorry.
~ Jacob Weisberg
Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.
~ Andrew Lloyd Webber
I made the apologies that needed to be made, and so I didn't feel that Media Matters was a continuing form of saying I was sorry.
~ David Brock
I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
~ Maisie Williams
It is not easy for me to sing consonants, and I am sorry if I don't sing the 'S'.
~ Jose Carreras
Happiness is ours for the taking and take it we must without any apologies. We deserve to be happy, loved, and respected......nothing less.
~ Omoakhuana Anthonia
success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis." If
~ Napoleon Hill
Sorry, I should have warned you." Apologies are the keystone of an enduring relationship. Failing to apologize for mistakes, or getting onto a treadmill of belittling insults, is a bad warning sign. So far we've avoided it, but . 
~ Charles Stross
I'm not sure about public apologies on behalf of other people as far as the motivation for them.
~ Sonny Perdue
I'm Heed Cosey. And you are?" "Junior. But you can call me June." "Oh, dear," said Heed, and batted her lashes as if someone had spilled red wine on pale velvet: sorry, of course, and no fault, of course, but difficult to clean nonetheless.
~ Toni Morrison
Here I am patching up relations between the men of the future and the men of the past, returning, with apologies, a body we have sucked dry-a go-between, a jackal of Empire in sheep's clothing!
~ J.M. Coetzee
If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
~ Ted Allen
Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired of the stereotype. She likes children just fine, but they're not the standard against which all other accomplishments should be measured. Caring for animals is worthwhile in and of itself, a vocation that need offer no apologies.
~ Ted Chiang