Apology Quotes

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn

Maturity, Ability, Reap

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hurt, Insult, Second

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.
Mitt Romney

America, Said, President

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler

God, Devil, Books

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
Steve Martin

Wrong, Might, Gentleman

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
Colin Firth

Problem, Between, Voice

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Wrong, Side, Egotism

I want you to answer this question: Why should you settle for anything less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and values without an apology? Think about that.
Rick Perry

Fight, Why, Question

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
Red Auerbach

Actions, Demand, Correct

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.
Robin Quivers

Life, Change, Help

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
Jay Leno

God, Hollywood, Destroy

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Nothing, Whose, Perhaps

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
Kitty Kelley

Someone, Hero, Admire

Friends are God's apology for relations.
Hugh Kingsmill

God, Friends, Relations

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
Archibald Alexander

Heart, Evil, Ground

The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.
Kevin Rudd

Truth, Respect, Between

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.
Tracey Emin

Tomorrow, Ask, Paper

I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.
Anthony Weiner

Today, Mistakes, Wife

On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
Vince Cable

Anger, Themselves, While

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.
David Letterman

Future, Hard, Working

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.
Kevin Rudd

Lie, Big, Ahead

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.
Kevin Rudd

History, Past, Human

These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements.
Kevin Rudd

Education, Health, Important

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.
Ivan Lendl

Bad, Thought, Strange

If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.
Burt Bacharach

Hope, Humanity, Country

When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.
Christine Pelosi

Women, Equality, Talk

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.
Chuck Grassley

Before, Commit, Japanese

I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness and I must say that out of all the gentleman running for the presidency Mr. Romney is, in my opinion, the best one to fit the bill.
Angela Lansbury

Best, Book, Opinion

I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance.
David Kay

Reality, Thought, Ground

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
Ma Jian

Today, Forget, Public

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