Top 356 Apology Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.
You can always say sorry but the real apology is when you hear the sadness in their voice and see the look in their eyes. And you realize that they have hurt themselves just as much.
Somebody actually said that I'm the only entity on earth, other than rogue states, that has received an apology from the White House.
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.
How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead.
It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.
The purpose of apology is to extend ourselves in such a way that relationships become deeper, and life becomes richer and more human in the process.
I’ll accept your apology on one condition.” He folded his arms across his chest. “Anything?” “You trust me.
In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.
I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.
Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology.
I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone... it's a joke!
My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.
We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.
I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique.
I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone it's a joke!
Apology is both transactional, in that it restores what has been broken to what it was before, and transformational, in that it creates opportunities that didn't exist before.
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.
I don't drink wine during the day. Not even a little. Otherwise, the rest of the day is an apology.
An apology offered and, equally important, received is a step towards reconciliation and, sometimes, recompense. Without that process, hurts can rankle and fester and erupt into their own hatreds and wrongdoings.
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.
I’m sorry, my lady,” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
The act of apology is something that most societies take very seriously indeed. It is an admission of wrong done to the victims and an acceptance of blame.
For many women, and a fair number of men, saying 'I'm sorry' isn't literally an apology; it's a ritual way of restoring balance to a conversation.
Sorry for hurting you, she said right in my ear, but it wasn't really an apology, because you don't bite someone's earlobe to tell them you're sorry.
I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.
When we have fights in our family, they don't end with an apology. You make up by getting back to normal. Like you'll call and say, 'You want to go shopping?'
How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?
People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.
Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people. The president's going to have to get a touch of reality.
In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.
It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.
We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.
If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.
There are Jews who were born in Poland before World War II and survived the Holocaust, who think Poland and the Poles deserve an apology.
Bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, who I respect, have a very robotic, dehumanised approach. They're almost an apology for machines. It's very German.
I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath
I don't know if there is redemption for people like Charlie Rose or Garrison Keillor. An apology helps, but what really matter are deeds.
Me and Dre have the best relationship in the world; we don't have one at all. I don't look for an apology from him because I don't think it would do anything. It wouldn't be meaningful.
I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.
Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right.
For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.
Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.
This apology is not just to Bernie Sanders. It is to donors. It is to anyone and everyone that clearly we offended. And the e-mails that were revealed that were hacked.
The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.
To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.
I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games.
It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.
Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
I suppose I should make a little apology to Cyndi - although I'm not taking the blame for this - because I was the one who did say Cyndi had won.
Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.
Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.
