Apologizing Quotes - Page 24

• Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, Sadness, Men

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• You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Party, Committed, Pursue

  "25 Powerful Commencement Speeches by Famous Women" by Julie Ma, www.thecut.com. June 26, 2015.

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• Printing up extra money - with no backing - used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don't apologize for it. They don't hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they're proud of it... announcing that they 'saved civilization,' or some such claptrap.

  Bill Bonner

  Civilization, Brain, Proud

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• Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.

  LaToya London

  Sorry, Believe, Apology

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• Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

  Julian Bond

  Apology, Decision, Bells

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• I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us weak, not our actions.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Believe, Men, World

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• Be willing to apologize. Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I'm sorry that I hurt you. 3) How do I make it better? It's the third part that people tend to forget. Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

  Randy Pausch

  Hurt, Sorry, Apology

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• I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

  Shinzo Abe

  Taken, Heart, Japan

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• I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.

  Peter Arnett

  Baghdad, Happenings, Reports

  "Just fired, Peter Arnett hired by British paper". Interview with Piers Morgan, edition.cnn.com. April 1, 2003.

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• I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him.

  Woody Hayes

  Mistake, Taken, Men

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• We need to get women to the point where they aren't apologizing.  Its time to take ownership in our success.

  Tory Burch

  Needs, Ownership

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• Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And things always go wrong. We respond with apologies; we continue to apologize long after the event is forgotten - and even if it had no causal relation to anything we did to begin with.

  Nancy Chodorow

  Apology, Self, Long

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• Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it.

  Taylor Swift

  People, Laughing, Hug

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• The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

  Charles Handy

  Strength, Struggle, Successful

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• President Bush deliberately did not apologize for things and that’s because advisers around him, including those there, felt that the press corps would jump on that and down his throat in a way that he couldn’t recover from. So, especially on the war he was very careful on that line.

  David Gregory

  War, President, Lines

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• This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love, and then speak it again.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Love, Loyalty, Gratitude

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• In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Argument, Turns, Ifs

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.322, Penguin

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• To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Boring, Worst, Vulgar

  Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.124, Pan Macmillan

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• I will never apologize to the Jewish community
  for telling the truth

  Louis Farrakhan

  Community, Jewish Community, Telling The Truth

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• I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

  John Thune

  Christian, Thinking, Issues

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• I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give me a lecture, he won't try to teach me a lesson. He won't ask a thousand questions or ask me to apologize. He'll just come and get me. "Just tell me where you are.

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, Giving, Trying

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.

  John Scalzi

  Feel Better, People, Giving

  John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own.

  Ruth Whitman

  Faces, Worn, Let Me

  Ruth Whitman (1990). “Laughing Gas: Poems, New and Selected, 1963-1990”, p.66, Wayne State University Press

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• Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Faith, Religious, Thinking

  "An Atheist Responds" by Christopher Hitchens, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2007.

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• Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

  Dave Parker

  Successful, Thinking, People

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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