Apology Quotes - Page 19

• Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Want, Should

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.24, Zondervan

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• I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call it sin. I would much rather, if possible - and in my estimation it would not be possible - to make it worse than less than it actually is. I have no one but myself to blame. I do not lay the fault or the blame of the charge at anyone else's feet. For no one is to blame but I take the responsibility. I take the blame. I take the fault.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Mistake, Responsibility, Feet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mistake, Looks, Stitches

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.195, Penguin

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• I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Lying, Promise, Matter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Regret is not an apology. I regret that I ran the stop sign, right, but, yeah, I'm not sorry for what I speaking. I regret that because I got a ticket. You can regret things and still not be sorry for them.

  Don Lemon

  Sorry, Regret, Tickets

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Sometimes when the spouse is really the culprit, it is hard to admit what you consider your little failures, but if you are going to have a better relationship, you admitting your part in the dynamics is a step in the road to healing. Because if they see you modeling apology, for example, and they see you modeling love, they may well get the idea that maybe they need to apologize.

  Gary Chapman

  Healing, Ideas, Example

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• In the case of Tori Spelling, there were two apology emails.

  Andy Cohen

  Two, Email, Cases

  "Watch What Happens...When Anderson Cooper interviews Andy Cohen". Interview With Anderson Cooper, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 25, 2016.

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• Do the thousands of people that Donald Trump have stiffed over the course of your business not deserve some kind of apology from someone who has taken their labor, taken the goods that they produced, and then refused to pay them?

  Hillary Clinton

  Taken, People, Pay

  Source: time.com

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• Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

  Margaret Lee Runbeck

  Sorry, Humility, Pride

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• The worst was I had little control in terms of smoothing out my questions and making myself look good the way I could in print. All the ums and uhs and rambling and apologies and hyenalike laughter at something that really isn't funny. You know when an artist will crack a joke, and you're like, "That's so hilarious," like, the fawning laughter that you can at least cut when it's print? It's just all out there, and it's really humiliating.

  Jancee Dunn

  Laughter, Cutting, Artist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving I jumped up and passed gas in my friend's face. I turned around and it wasn't my friend, it was this nice old lady who was just walking out of the store. That was probably one of the more awkward apologies I've had to make in my life.

  Mark Hoppus

  Growing Up, Nice, Awkward

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.

  John Alfred Langford

  Book, Reading, Defense

  John Alfred Langford (1880). “The Praise of Books as Said and Sung by English Authors: Selected with a Preliminary Essay on Books”

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• I was a snowboard instructor, I was a bouncer in a nightclub, I was a whitewater river guide for many years. I worked as a teacher. I make no apologies for a very varied set of life experiences.

  Justin Trudeau

  Teacher, Years, Rivers

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The first comfort women didn't actually come forward until 1992, and since then, the issue has really been kicked up. Japan issued a 1993 acknowledgement on this. It's called the Kono Agreement. But in recent years, South Korea has been wanting an apology to go much further.

  Elise Hu

  Japan, Agreement, Korea

  "South Korea, Japan Reach Major Deal On Wartime Sex Slaves". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• He [Erdogan] has crept up to the edge talking about mistakes by pilots. But he also knows that with leaders like himself and Vladimir Putin, apologies may not be the answer. Just look at Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu apologized years ago to Erdogan over this incident off the coast of Gaza in which Turkish people died onboard an aid ship. And only just now is that relationship at least in talks to be improved.

  Peter Kenyon

  Mistake, Israel, Talking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There's going to be no more compromise on issues where there should not be compromise. Enough with appeasement or apology and mollifying, all that. To hell with all that. I'm just going to fight my corner.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fighting, Issues, Compromise

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.

  C.E. Morgan

  Believe, Writing, Character

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• It's true that over-apologizing interrupts the flow of conversation and irritates the person who has to stop and offer reassurance, like, "No, it's fine, don't worry about it." But far greater than the challenge of toning down unnecessary "sorrys" is offering an apology when one is due.

  Harriet Lerner

  Worry, Challenges, Reassurance

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Passionate, Emotion, Inspired

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• If I was a part of secret ninja group my power would be the power of apology. I would just apologize emphatically and freely. And my mech might just be a phone to send apologetic emails from.

  Zach Woods

  Secret, Ninja, Apologizing

  Source: collider.com

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• With apologies to the green movement, "sustainability" is a myth. History and archaeology show that societies are always moving to the edge of crisis, "falling forward" through growth, but then responding often successfully to the problems created. What we can hope for is that with a somewhat more controlled level of growth, and with longer-term preparations for change, we can keep responding to the inevitable smaller crises, as they arise, and continue to postpone until later and later the, perhaps ultimately inevitable, end of our civilization.

  Arthur Demarest

  Moving, Fall, Preparation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I grew up with such mixed feelings about LA, but I do love it. I grew up lectured by Woody Allen, for example, that LA was absurd, worthy of ridicule and contempt. Most people seem to describe Los Angeles as elementally despicable, or as someplace that requires an apology.

  Matthew Specktor

  People, Feelings, Los Angeles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• From my vantage point, when I'm criticized in a way that I can hear what's being said - i.e., the issues - I'm more likely to listen and respond. A lot of the personal email I receive consists of name calling; I'll write back and say: Talk to me like I'm a person and you're a person and tell me where you disagree with me. I can't tell you how that turns people upside down. More often than not they write back with an apology and a reasoned argument.

  Steven Petrow

  Writing, People, Upside Down

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Maya Angelou: 'I make no apologies for writing a cookbook'" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2011.

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• I try to use social media as a tool for good. Fortunately I can say that social media has treated me pretty well. I've been exempt from a lot of the mean comments. Of course it happens now and then. It's funny because let's say a rude or off-putting comment comes in, rather than ignore it, I'll talk to that person and there are so many times I've gotten apologies, like "I totally understand, I'm with you."

  Yara Shahidi

  Mean, Rude, Trying

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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