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Apology
apology ::: n. --> Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian&
Apology: (Gr. apologia) A speech or writing in defense. Plato's Apology of Socrates purports to be the speech delivered by Socrates in his own defense at the trial in which he was condemned to death. -- G.R.M.
apology ::: n. --> Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian&
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1 Wikipedia
1 Lewis Carroll
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10 Ralph Waldo Emerson
6 Rupi Kaur
6 Marissa Meyer
6 Anonymous
5 Steve Maraboli
5 Richelle E Goodrich
5 Randy Pausch
5 Andy Andrews
4 Rachel Held Evans
4 Harriet Lerner
3 Terry Hayes
3 Richard Paul Evans
3 Mitt Romney
3 Melina Marchetta
3 Leigh Bardugo
3 Lee Child
3 John Flanagan
3 Jay Leno
3 Gilbert K Chesterton
3 Colleen Hoover
3 Chloe Neill
3 Charles I of England
3 Cassandra Clare
3 Amy Poehler
2 Winter Renshaw
2 William Gaddis
2 Vi Keeland
2 T Kingfisher
2 Samuel Johnson
2 Robin Quivers
2 Robin Hobb
2 Rick Riordan
2 Richard Rohr
2 R A Salvatore
2 Pepper Winters
2 Paul Bloom
2 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
2 Miley Cyrus
2 Meggie Royer
2 Matt Haig
2 Lynn Johnston
2 Lisa Kleypas
2 Lindsey Kelk
2 Libba Bray
2 Kristin Hannah
2 Kristin Cashore
2 Kristen Ashley
2 Kirk Douglas
2 Kelley Armstrong
2 K Bromberg
2 Kathy Griffin
2 Kanye West
2 Joseph Fink
2 Jonathan Safran Foer
2 Jojo Moyes
2 John Milton
2 Jodi Picoult
2 Jim Rohn
2 Jennifer Niven
2 Jennifer L Armentrout
2 Jason Fried
2 Jamie McGuire
2 Hugh Howey
2 Gillian Flynn
2 Eula Biss
2 Elizabeth Mckenzie
2 Don DeLillo
2 Deb Caletti
2 Debbie Ford
2 Dana Perino
2 Charles Dickens
2 Brittainy C Cherry
2 Beverly Engel
2 Benjamin Franklin
2 Barry Eisler
2 Amy Zhang
1:In Plato's Symposium, the priestess Diotima teaches Socrates that love is not a deity, but rather a 'great daemon' (202d). She goes on to explain that 'everything daemonic is between divine and mortal' (202d-e), and she describes daemons as 'interpreting and transporting human things to the gods and divine things to men; entreaties and sacrifices from below, and ordinances and requitals from above...' (202e). In Plato's Apology of Socrates, Socrates claimed to have a daimonion (literally, a 'divine something')[16] that frequently warned him-in the form of a 'voice'-against mistakes but never told him what to do. ~ Wikipedia, Daemon , #KEYS
2:One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone.The descriptions, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend.The Chapters, headed 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing.It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story.As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me--who knows how?--with a transitory suddenness that left me no choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their source these random flashes of thought--as being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out from the 'flint' of one's own mind by the 'steel' of a friend's chance remark but they had also a way of their own, of occurring, a propos of nothing --specimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, 'an effect without a cause.' Such, for example, was the last line of 'The Hunting of the Snark,' which came into my head (as I have already related in 'The Theatre' for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been passages which occurred in dreams, and which I cannot trace to any antecedent cause whatever. There are at least two instances of such dream-suggestions in this book--one, my Lady's remark, 'it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does', the other, Eric Lindon's badinage about having been in domestic service.And thus it came to pass that I found myself at last in possession of a huge unwieldy mass of litterature--if the reader will kindly excuse the spelling --which only needed stringing together, upon the thread of a consecutive story, to constitute the book I hoped to write. Only! The task, at first, seemed absolutely hopeless, and gave me a far clearer idea, than I ever had before, of the meaning of the word 'chaos': and I think it must have been ten years, or more, before I had succeeded in classifying these odds-and-ends sufficiently to see what sort of a story they indicated: for the story had to grow out of the incidents, not the incidents out of the story I am telling all this, in no spirit of egoism, but because I really believe that some of my readers will be interested in these details of the 'genesis' of a book, which looks so simple and straight-forward a matter, when completed, that they might suppose it to have been written straight off, page by page, as one would write a letter, beginning at the beginning; and ending at the end.It is, no doubt, possible to write a story in that way: and, if it be not vanity to say so, I believe that I could, myself,--if I were in the unfortunate position (for I do hold it to be a real misfortune) of being obliged to produce a given amount of fiction in a given time,--that I could 'fulfil my task,' and produce my 'tale of bricks,' as other slaves have done. One thing, at any rate, I could guarantee as to the story so produced--that it should be utterly commonplace, should contain no new ideas whatever, and should be very very weary reading!This species of literature has received the very appropriate name of 'padding' which might fitly be defined as 'that which all can write and none can read.' That the present volume contains no such writing I dare not avow: sometimes, in order to bring a picture into its proper place, it has been necessary to eke out a page with two or three extra lines : but I can honestly say I have put in no more than I was absolutely compelled to do.My readers may perhaps like to amuse themselves by trying to detect, in a given passage, the one piece of 'padding' it contains. While arranging the 'slips' into pages, I found that the passage was 3 lines too short. I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in 3 consecutive lines. Now can my readers guess which they are?A harder puzzle if a harder be desired would be to determine, as to the Gardener's Song, in which cases (if any) the stanza was adapted to the surrounding text, and in which (if any) the text was adapted to the stanza.Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature--at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it come's is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune. I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story--I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it--but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen storybooks have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'--is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.Hence it is that, in 'Sylvie and Bruno,' I have striven with I know not what success to strike out yet another new path: be it bad or good, it is the best I can do. It is written, not for money, and not for fame, but in the hope of supplying, for the children whom I love, some thoughts that may suit those hours of innocent merriment which are the very life of Childhood; and also in the hope of suggesting, to them and to others, some thoughts that may prove, I would fain hope, not wholly out of harmony with the graver cadences of Life.If I have not already exhausted the patience of my readers, I would like to seize this opportunity perhaps the last I shall have of addressing so many friends at once of putting on record some ideas that have occurred to me, as to books desirable to be written--which I should much like to attempt, but may not ever have the time or power to carry through--in the hope that, if I should fail (and the years are gliding away very fast) to finish the task I have set myself, other hands may take it up.First, a Child's Bible. The only real essentials of this would be, carefully selected passages, suitable for a child's reading, and pictures. One principle of selection, which I would adopt, would be that Religion should be put before a child as a revelation of love--no need to pain and puzzle the young mind with the history of crime and punishment. (On such a principle I should, for example, omit the history of the Flood.) The supplying of the pictures would involve no great difficulty: no new ones would be needed : hundreds of excellent pictures already exist, the copyright of which has long ago expired, and which simply need photo-zincography, or some similar process, for their successful reproduction. The book should be handy in size with a pretty attractive looking cover--in a clear legible type--and, above all, with abundance of pictures, pictures, pictures!Secondly, a book of pieces selected from the Bible--not single texts, but passages of from 10 to 20 verses each--to be committed to memory. Such passages would be found useful, to repeat to one's self and to ponder over, on many occasions when reading is difficult, if not impossible: for instance, when lying awake at night--on a railway-journey --when taking a solitary walk-in old age, when eyesight is failing or wholly lost--and, best of all, when illness, while incapacitating us for reading or any other occupation, condemns us to lie awake through many weary silent hours: at such a time how keenly one may realise the truth of David's rapturous cry "O how sweet are thy words unto my throat: yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!"I have said 'passages,' rather than single texts, because we have no means of recalling single texts: memory needs links, and here are none: one may have a hundred texts stored in the memory, and not be able to recall, at will, more than half-a-dozen--and those by mere chance: whereas, once get hold of any portion of a chapter that has been committed to memory, and the whole can be recovered: all hangs together.Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages--enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.These two books of sacred, and secular, passages for memory--will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts. Let me say this, in better words than my own, by copying a passage from that most interesting book, Robertson's Lectures on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Lecture XLIX. "If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps."Fourthly, a "Shakespeare" for girls: that is, an edition in which everything, not suitable for the perusal of girls of (say) from 10 to 17, should be omitted. Few children under 10 would be likely to understand or enjoy the greatest of poets: and those, who have passed out of girlhood, may safely be left to read Shakespeare, in any edition, 'expurgated' or not, that they may prefer: but it seems a pity that so many children, in the intermediate stage, should be debarred from a great pleasure for want of an edition suitable to them. Neither Bowdler's, Chambers's, Brandram's, nor Cundell's 'Boudoir' Shakespeare, seems to me to meet the want: they are not sufficiently 'expurgated.' Bowdler's is the most extraordinary of all: looking through it, I am filled with a deep sense of wonder, considering what he has left in, that he should have cut anything out! Besides relentlessly erasing all that is unsuitable on the score of reverence or decency, I should be inclined to omit also all that seems too difficult, or not likely to interest young readers. The resulting book might be slightly fragmentary: but it would be a real treasure to all British maidens who have any taste for poetry.If it be needful to apologize to any one for the new departure I have taken in this story--by introducing, along with what will, I hope, prove to be acceptable nonsense for children, some of the graver thoughts of human life--it must be to one who has learned the Art of keeping such thoughts wholly at a distance in hours of mirth and careless ease. To him such a mixture will seem, no doubt, ill-judged and repulsive. And that such an Art exists I do not dispute: with youth, good health, and sufficient money, it seems quite possible to lead, for years together, a life of unmixed gaiety--with the exception of one solemn fact, with which we are liable to be confronted at any moment, even in the midst of the most brilliant company or the most sparkling entertainment. A man may fix his own times for admitting serious thought, for attending public worship, for prayer, for reading the Bible: all such matters he can defer to that 'convenient season', which is so apt never to occur at all: but he cannot defer, for one single moment, the necessity of attending to a message, which may come before he has finished reading this page,' this night shalt thy soul be required of thee.'The ever-present sense of this grim possibility has been, in all ages, 1 an incubus that men have striven to shake off. Few more interesting subjects of enquiry could be found, by a student of history, than the various weapons that have been used against this shadowy foe. Saddest of all must have been the thoughts of those who saw indeed an existence beyond the grave, but an existence far more terrible than annihilation--an existence as filmy, impalpable, all but invisible spectres, drifting about, through endless ages, in a world of shadows, with nothing to do, nothing to hope for, nothing to love! In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passageOmnes eodem cogimur, omniumVersatur urna serius ociusSors exitura et nos in aeternumExilium impositura cymbae.Yes, to him this present life--spite of all its weariness and all its sorrow--was the only life worth having: all else was 'exile'! Does it not seem almost incredible that one, holding such a creed, should ever have smiled?And many in this day, I fear, even though believing in an existence beyond the grave far more real than Horace ever dreamed of, yet regard it as a sort of 'exile' from all the joys of life, and so adopt Horace's theory, and say 'let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'We go to entertainments, such as the theatre--I say 'we', for I also go to the play, whenever I get a chance of seeing a really good one and keep at arm's length, if possible, the thought that we may not return alive. Yet how do you know--dear friend, whose patience has carried you through this garrulous preface that it may not be your lot, when mirth is fastest and most furious, to feel the sharp pang, or the deadly faintness, which heralds the final crisis--to see, with vague wonder, anxious friends bending over you to hear their troubled whispers perhaps yourself to shape the question, with trembling lips, "Is it serious?", and to be told "Yes: the end is near" (and oh, how different all Life will look when those words are said!)--how do you know, I say, that all this may not happen to you, this night?And dare you, knowing this, say to yourself "Well, perhaps it is an immoral play: perhaps the situations are a little too 'risky', the dialogue a little too strong, the 'business' a little too suggestive.I don't say that conscience is quite easy: but the piece is so clever, I must see it this once! I'll begin a stricter life to-morrow." To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow!"Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says,'Sorrow for sin God's judgement stays!'Against God's Spirit he lies; quite stops Mercy with insult; dares, and drops,Like a scorch'd fly, that spins in vainUpon the axis of its pain,Then takes its doom, to limp and crawl,Blind and forgot, from fall to fall."Let me pause for a moment to say that I believe this thought, of the possibility of death--if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.But, once realise what the true object is in life--that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds'--but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man--and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!One other matter may perhaps seem to call for apology--that I should have treated with such entire want of sympathy the British passion for 'Sport', which no doubt has been in by-gone days, and is still, in some forms of it, an excellent school for hardihood and for coolness in moments of danger.But I am not entirely without sympathy for genuine 'Sport': I can heartily admire the courage of the man who, with severe bodily toil, and at the risk of his life, hunts down some 'man-eating' tiger: and I can heartily sympathize with him when he exults in the glorious excitement of the chase and the hand-to-hand struggle with the monster brought to bay. But I can but look with deep wonder and sorrow on the hunter who, at his ease and in safety, can find pleasure in what involves, for some defenceless creature, wild terror and a death of agony: deeper, if the hunter be one who has pledged himself to preach to men the Religion of universal Love: deepest of all, if it be one of those 'tender and delicate' beings, whose very name serves as a symbol of Love--'thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women'--whose mission here is surely to help and comfort all that are in pain or sorrow!'Farewell, farewell! but this I tellTo thee, thou Wedding-Guest!He prayeth well, who loveth wellBoth man and bird and beast.He prayeth best, who loveth bestAll things both great and small;For the dear God who loveth us,He made and loveth all.' ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno , #KEYS
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1:Life is not an apology. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
2:I have a no-apology policy. ~ Kathy Griffin, #NFDB
3:I think I deserve an apology. ~ Dana Perino, #NFDB
4:The best apology is changed behavior. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
5:An apology is also an admission of guilt ~ Eula Biss, #NFDB
6:A Bad Apology Is Worse Than No Apology ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
7:But my apology was a thousand apologies. ~ Deb Caletti, #NFDB
8:I'm sorry you're angry" is NOT an apology. ~ Lisa Lutz, #NFDB
9:Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~ Bill Hargenrader, #NFDB
10:Procrastination is a lazy man's apology. ~ Chinua Achebe, #NFDB
11:Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
12:Violets are God's apology for February. ~ Barbara Johnson, #NFDB
13:Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
14:My life is not an apology, but a life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
15:No sensible person ever made an apology. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
16:A hero is someone we can admire without apology. ~ Kitty Kelley, #NFDB
17:I don’t want your apology. I want your obedience. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
18:The best apology against false accusers is silence. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
19:Apology is only egotism wrong side out. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, #NFDB
20:My life is an apology for the life of my father. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
21:The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins. ~ Humphry Davy, #NFDB
22:My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
23:My life will not be an apology, it will be a statement. ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
24:There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
25:There is nothing more pathetic than asking for an apology. ~ NisiOisiN, #NFDB
26:Let’s admit, without apology, what we do to each other. ~ Richard Siken, #NFDB
27:An apology for America's values is never the right course. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
28:It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain. ~ Lester Cole, #NFDB
29:I'm not going to apologize for things that need no apology. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
30:In the case of Tori Spelling, there were two apology emails. ~ Andy Cohen, #NFDB
31:An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
32:Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith. ~ Mike Huckabee, #NFDB
33:An apology with a defense built in isn’t much of an apology, ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
34:His eyes, bloodred, hold an apology I will never accept. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
35:He was so handsome she wanted to demand an apology from him. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
36:I am dripping melanin and honey. I am black without apology. ~ Upile Chisala, #NFDB
37:One simple apology is enough. Get up and don’t do it again ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
38:First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that. ~ Chris Shays, #NFDB
39:Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. ~ Charles I of England, #NFDB
40:examined children’s use of apology terms in parent–child discourse. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
41:An apology might help, but you can change your life without one. ~ Robin Quivers, #NFDB
42:I lied to you about a lot of things....but I meant every apology. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
43:It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
44:If you don’t know why you’re apologizing, your apology probably sucks. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
45:It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
46:Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology. ~ Michael Foot, #NFDB
47:Is it possible to go fifteen minutes without an unnecessary apology? ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
48:There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology. ~ Amy Hatvany, #NFDB
49:The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
50:An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. ~ Lynn Johnston, #NFDB
51:An apology is the superglue of life! It can repair just about anything!! ~ Lynn Johnston, #NFDB
52:Such a quintessentially Human thing, to express sorrow through apology. ~ Becky Chambers, #NFDB
53:The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology. ~ Ray Romano, #NFDB
54:Life was hard sometimes, but maybe God gave us music as his apology. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
55:Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates in The Apology. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
56:The hardest thing I’ve ever done was accept an apology I was never given. ~ Emily Goodwin, #NFDB
57:A life could be spent like an apology—to prove you had been worth it. ~ Elizabeth Mckenzie, #NFDB
58:I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper. ~ Tracey Emin, #NFDB
59:the sense of apology did not go away; it was a tiring thing to carry. — ~ Elizabeth Strout, #NFDB
60:This is an apology/ for the things I have to say about us/ to get over us. ~ Trista Mateer, #NFDB
61:Who cares who's right or wrong when the last word is a kind apology? ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
62:Apology accepted. Everyone makes mistakes. You are part-human after all. ~ Phillip W Simpson, #NFDB
63:I believe you owe her an apology,” the fighter said in his quiet, even tone. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
64:The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~ Red Auerbach, #NFDB
65:If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
66:My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem. ~ Colin Firth, #NFDB
67:When giving an apology, any performance lower than an A really doesn’t cut it. ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
68:I am impressed! I hope you'll accept my apology for having to kill you all now. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
69:Their kiss was sad, an apology almost, a reminder of what they’d once shared. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
70:There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
71:Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
72:apology in his gaze. “The longer he stays in the coma, the fewer answers we have. ~ Sejal Badani, #NFDB
73:Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless. ~ Bryan Davis, #NFDB
74:One apology is enough,” the scythe told the boy. “Especially when it’s genuine. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
75:A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound. ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
76:I started to write an apology, but I don't have anything to say I'm sorry for. ~ Jennifer Lawrence, #NFDB
77:I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
78:To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me. ~ Alanis Morissette, #NFDB
79:And we used “I love you” like an apology for the things we couldn’t give each other ~ Anthony Kiedis, #NFDB
80:wasn’t smart enough to understand that an apology is a sign of strength, not weakness, ~ Terry Hayes, #NFDB
81:I'm sorry that it was this way, Mom. Not sorry like an apology. I'm sorry as in sorrow. ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
82:Sometimes it feels like my entire relationship with Sawyer has been one long apology. ~ Katie Cotugno, #NFDB
83:I wasn’t smart enough to understand that an apology is a sign of strength, not weakness, ~ Terry Hayes, #NFDB
84:Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
85:In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology. ~ Chuck Grassley, #NFDB
86:phrased it. “The state sends him to prison, and the church gives you an apology in the ~ Danielle Steel, #NFDB
87:Without apology, the Christian leader is a devoted student and a lifelong learner. ~ R Albert Mohler Jr, #NFDB
88:I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange. ~ Ivan Lendl, #NFDB
89:I wish for you the wisdom to realize that forgiveness has nothing to do with an apology. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
90:In this case, I can only hope that my life, which is my crime, might also serve as my apology. ~ Eula Biss, #NFDB
91:Shower first. Epic bitch-out session second, sincere apology third, and then sleep. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
92:Shower first. Epic b****-out session second, sincere apology third, and then sleep. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
93:A meaningful apology is one that communicates three R's: regret, responsibility, and remedy. ~ Beverly Engel, #NFDB
94:I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
95:Micah lives like an apology. He blushes when he breathes because he's taking someone else's air. ~ Amy Zhang, #NFDB
96:Proposing an immigration policy that serves America’s interests should not require an apology. ~ Ann Coulter, #NFDB
97:Brie then thanked him warmly, allowing her momentary indignation to be soothed by this apology. ~ Brenda Hiatt, #NFDB
98:I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour. ~ Amy Adams, #NFDB
99:And you can shove your apology. If it can come out of your damned mouth, then you can stand by it. ~ Lora Leigh, #NFDB
100:I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
101:I lied to you about a lot of things,” he finally said. She snorted. “But I meant every apology. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
102:The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. ~ James Connolly, #NFDB
103:There’s nothing worse than the non-apology apology. Either apologise and mean it, or don’t bother. ~ Louise Bay, #NFDB
104:In this life, when you deny someone an apology,
you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
105:I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement. ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
106:The art of a sincere and heartfelt apology is one of the greatest skills you will ever learn. ~ Jeanette LeBlanc, #NFDB
107:I thought that I needed your apology to
move on.
I really needed to forgive myself
first. ~ Najwa Zebian,#NFDB
108:sometimes the apology never comes when it is wanted and when it comes it is neither wanted nor needed ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
109:I sensed immediately that he'd once been overweight. He moved with a fat person's tiptoey apology. ~ Jennifer Egan, #NFDB
110:We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat. ~ Bernard Malamud, #NFDB
111:but the truth was, his apology meant nothing to her. In her mind, behavior was the truth, not words. ~ Barry Eisler, #NFDB
112:How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence? ~ Faraaz Kazi, #NFDB
113:If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity. ~ Burt Bacharach, #NFDB
114:Mrs. Wiggins said: “Well, we can’t ask any more in the way of an apology than that. We accept it. ~ Walter R Brooks, #NFDB
115:Sometimes the apology never comes when it is wanted
and when it comes it is neither wanted nor needed. ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
116:The only people I owe an apology to are my dead parents. Except my father because he's still alive. ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
117:An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
118:Apology reminds us that each person (including ourselves) deserves to be respected and treated fairly. ~ Beverly Engel, #NFDB
119:...I thought, breaking into a sweat, I'd better call Saul. I owe Kate an apology... Damn damn damn. ~ Mordecai Richler, #NFDB
120:Some days I will be a stuttering apology and you won't know how to handle all the things I've done wrong. ~ Meggie Royer, #NFDB
121:A thank you would be nice,” he says, following me out. “So would an apology,” I retort over my shoulder. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
122:Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'! ~ T F Hodge, #NFDB
123:A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
124:If anyone deserves an apology, it is Miss Essex, whose infant sister was stolen by your depraved offspring! ~ Eloisa James, #NFDB
125:I’ll accept your apology on one condition.” He folded his arms across his chest.
“Anything?”
“You trust me. ~ J Lynn,#NFDB
126:If I might offer any apology for so exaggerated a fiction as the Barnacles and the Circumlocution Office, ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
127:Kieran could gracefully accept his apology. Or he could open his fucking mouth, and guess which one he does. ~ Austin Chant, #NFDB
128:Wounded animals heal best in their dens. You owe no one an apology for doing whatever it takes to survive. ~ Hailey Edwards, #NFDB
129:In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them. ~ Horace, #NFDB
130:door—it had to be Caliban, nobody else had a tread like a bull moose and a knock that sounded like an apology— ~ T Kingfisher, #NFDB
131:I catch myself humming what I thought was a meaningless tune. I stop when I realize it’s my mother’s apology song. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
132:If you don't have the grace and wit to die early, you are forced to vanish, to hide as if in shame and apology. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
133:My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know. ~ Joan Rivers, #NFDB
134:Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
135:I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ~ John J Geddes, #NFDB
136:I’m sorry, my lady,” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose. ~ Shannon Hale, #NFDB
137:Isis, I am not one to act out with such posture. Please accept my sincere apology, as I have nothing else to offer. ~ Nely Cab, #NFDB
138:After all, an apology forced before the speaker was ready to speak it was surely more insulting than no apology. ~ Tamara Leigh, #NFDB
139:Nothing heals the soul like chocolate," she said. "I just love chocolate. It's God's apology for broccoli. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
140:To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community and apology for a disgusting and despicable smear campaign. ~ Justin Amash, #NFDB
141:If there were a God, which I’m not certain that there is, do you think this night would be a form of apology ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
142:I'm sorry for looking at your ass."
"When did you look at my ass?"
"Every chance I get?"
"Apology accepted. ~ Vi Keeland,#NFDB
143:Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology. ~ Amy Dickinson, #NFDB
144:Empathy--the ability to identify with someone else's suffering--is certainly a prerequisite for a genuine apology. ~ Danielle Ofri, #NFDB
145:I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born ~ George Galloway, #NFDB
146:To forgive even when the apology tendered was as thin as fishing line and as breakable as a promise to do better. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
147:Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, #NFDB
148:If I might offer any apology for so exaggerated a fiction as the Barnacles and the Circumlocution Office, I would ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
149:...I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
150:When you spend extraordinary amounts of time pushing someone away, their reaction to your apology tends to be slow. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
151:apology. “It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see. ~ Jonathan Tropper, #NFDB
152:Hell, if I kissed him, he’d probably apologize for getting in the way of my lips. That might be an interesting apology. ~ T Kingfisher, #NFDB
153:If the apology is true, my beautiful queens, a genuinely kind heart is an open heart you never close against anybody. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
154:First, the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order." -Jace Wayland ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
155:He turned the book around to show me. It was a short list. Accept Dan’s apology. Give Dan a Toblerone. Kiss Dan. Without ~ Lindsey Kelk, #NFDB
156:sometimes the apology never comes when it is wanted and when it comes it is neither wanted nor needed
- you are too late ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
157:I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes. ~ Will Self, #NFDB
158:In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly. ~ Adam Smith, #NFDB
159:After the apology the narrative cut to the then-current chase, which seemed to be equal parts political, legal, and deranged. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
160:Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. ~ Alan Clark, #NFDB
161:How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment? ~ Beth Kephart, #NFDB
162:I was only just starting to learn how to rig certain information with apology. How to mock myself before other people could. ~ Emma Cline, #NFDB
163:Fault and guilt are as useless as apology once the deed is done. Once the action has been taken, all must endure what follows. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
164:If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now. ~ Kanye West, #NFDB
165:When you make a mistake, give an apology without an excuse attached to it. The longer an apology, the less authentic it is. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
166:A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused. ~ Charles I of England, #NFDB
167:When a friendship crumbles, there are only really two things that can bring it back: a shitload of time, or a sincere apology. ~ Dahlia Adler, #NFDB
168:The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, #NFDB
169:An apology, said while in dull pain, made me feel as close to human as it was possible to feel. I could have almost written a poem. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
170:I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced. ~ Maria Edgeworth, #NFDB
171:But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
172:He did what he always did. He let her go. He understood. No apology required. He couldn’t live anywhere. His whole life was a visit. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
173:How would you feel about the apology if you were on the other end? If someone said those words to you, would you believe them? Keep ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
174:I apologise if I bore you!’ ‘I accept your apology.’ ‘I was joking!’ ‘Ah. Your wit is so very sharp I hardly noticed I was cut. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
175:I'm sorry,' Finn mumbled, a global apology for everything he was, and everything he was not, and all the ways he couldn't let it go. ~ Laura Ruby, #NFDB
176:She stroked one of the geranium's petals, inhaling its particular bitter fragrance, which she admired for its bold air of unapology. ~ Ellen Airgood, #NFDB
177:You don't need an apology from them.
You need a pen and paper.
Use it to fuel the work.
Get published. Get paid. Period. ~ Sahndra Fon Dufe,#NFDB
178:Geordie wrote a letter to Mr. Webster in which the shrieking figure of Apology was hounded through a labyrinth of agonized syntax. ~ Robertson Davies, #NFDB
179:I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
180:Loving me will not be easy. Some days I will be a stuttering apology
and you won’t know how to handle all the things I’ve done wrong. ~ Meggie Royer,#NFDB
181:sometimes
the apology
never comes
when it is wanted
and when it comes
it is neither wanted
nor needed - you are too late ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
182:There was no apology for the way the world worked. Only accommodation to it, while at the same time committing—somehow—not to give up. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
183: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. ~ Harry Reid, #NFDB
184: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. ~ Nouman Ali Khan, #NFDB
185:She was a lady, the real deal, the kind who wouldn’t have dreamed of making any apology for themselves, or the way they lived their lives. ~ Faith Martin, #NFDB
186: Apology For Her
852
Apology for Her
Be rendered by the Bee—
Herself, without a Parliament
Apology for Me.
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
187:I didn’t offer any explanation or even an apology that her morning was fucked up. It was my name on the top of that building. Shit happens. ~ Aleatha Romig, #NFDB
188:People owe us nothing: they can blow through our lives, make us feel hopeful and loved, and then disappear with no explanation or apology. ~ Ryan O Connell, #NFDB
189:Somebody actually said that I'm the only entity on earth, other than rogue states, that has received an apology from the White House. ~ Charles Krauthammer, #NFDB
190:Confession, apology, and forgiveness, Aunt Beru had been fond of reminding him, were the tools friends used to break walls down into bridges. ~ Timothy Zahn, #NFDB
191:Dawn, Cillian. That is how long I’ll wait for your apology. For you to remember you were nothing but a puppet king who forgot he was on strings. ~ J J McAvoy, #NFDB
192: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. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
193:Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
194:I have a confession,” he said. “Sometimes I offend on purpose. It’s like my smile.”
“That’s not an apology.”
“Princes don’t apologize. ~ Marie Rutkoski,#NFDB
195: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. ~ Terry Wogan, #NFDB
196:What's the n-never-fail universal apology?"
"'I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go fuck yourself with this bag of money. ~ Scott Lynch,#NFDB
197:If you think I'm going to tell my wife she came in second place, you're out of your gourd. I'll convey the apology and not another bloody word. ~ Johanna Lindsey, #NFDB
198:sometimes
the apology
never comes
when it is wanted
and when it comes
it is neither wanted
nor needed
- you are too late ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
199:But I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. I can’t do it, but I can applaud it in others. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
200:I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice. ~ Cameron Crowe, #NFDB
201:sometimes
the apology
never comes
when it is wanted
and when it comes
it is neither wanted
nor needed
-you are too late ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
202:But it was by far the deepest kiss I’d ever offered her. It was filled with apology. Hope. Gratitude. Regret. It was words unspoken. Lies unraveled. ~ Aly Martinez, #NFDB
203:Behavior speaks... I need not listen to someone's apology; I'll watch for it. I've learned not to let someone's words blind me from their behavior. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
204:In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused. ~ Charles I of England, #NFDB
205:The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are. ~ Debbie Ford, #NFDB
206:Winter shook her head, apology swimming in her amber eyes. Scarlet would have wanted to hug her if she hadn't simultaneously wanted to strangle her. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
207:Winter shook her head, apology swimming in her amber eyes. Scarlet would have wanted to hug her if she hadn’t simultaneously wanted to strangle her. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
208:CJ
It took me a moment to figure out the initials.Constant Jackass. I smiled. “Apology accepted, Barrons,
if it’s the Ferrari.”
It was. ~ Karen Marie Moning,#NFDB
209:Hayley—I owe you an apology.’ He tried to redeem himself. ‘Can we start this conversation again?’ ‘I don’t think so. It was bad enough the first time. ~ Sarah Morgan, #NFDB
210: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. ~ Ellen Glasgow, #NFDB
211:The greatest act of courage is to be and to own all of who you are — without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are. ~ Debbie Ford, #NFDB
212: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. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
213:What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers. ~ James Clavell, #NFDB
214:Clearly you never do anything wrong or have a bad fucking day in your life because if you did, you wouldn’t be so quick to write off someone’s apology. ~ Winter Renshaw, #NFDB
215:Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig. ~ Coco Chanel, #NFDB
216:I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one’s self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
217: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. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
218:Breckin deserved an apology. I acted like an asshole that day."
"And I didn't deserve one?"
"No. You don't deserve words, Sky. You deserve actions. ~ Colleen Hoover,#NFDB
219:Life is meant to be lived loud, Avery. In the moment and without fear or apology. Don’t wait for the net to appear. Jump and let the wind rush beneath you. ~ Marina Adair, #NFDB
220:From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology. ~ William Holmes McGuffey, #NFDB
221:I should have told you I overheard. Let you explain. I’m sorry.” Straight up apology. It took balls to do shit like that, even for sweet, cute, shy women. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
222:I was holding you and you were looking up at me all ‘kiss me, kiss me, Christian’,” he pauses and shrugs slightly, “I felt I owed you an apology and a warning. ~ E L James, #NFDB
223:A hundred times I must have thought of ways to take it back, but I wasn't smart enough to understand that an apology is a sign of strenght, not weakness (...) ~ Terry Hayes, #NFDB
224:Although exhausted, she couldn’t fall back asleep. Instead, she reanalyzed David’s uncharacteristic meltdown and subsequent apology. Unfortunately, his remorse ~ Jamie Beck, #NFDB
225:A truly humble apology works to part storm clouds, calm rough seas, and bring on the soft lights of dawn; it has the power to change a person's world. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
226:It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton, #NFDB
227:I will now make an apology, although I will do my best not to repeat it. (Good readers do not read fiction, after all, to put up with the author’s regrets.) ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
228:Of course,” Blake assures him. “You have nothing to worry about.” Wes strokes his chin and nods. “Okay. Sorry.” “Apology accepted.” Blake’s smile is blinding. ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
229:What is an argument for the defense that neither torments nor troubles — what is a eulogy that fails to kill? Every apology should be a murder by enthusiasm. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
230:I ripped the page from my book - "I don't speak, I'm sorry." - and used it to dry her cheeks, my explanation and apology ran down her face like mascara. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
231:Never believe you're so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
232: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. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
233:What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology. ~ William Gaddis, #NFDB
234:All he wanted was to show her she was worthy of a long journey, worthy of an apology, worthy of love. She didn't have to accept any of it, but she needed to know. ~ Sarah Sundin, #NFDB
235: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. ~ Evelyn Waugh, #NFDB
236: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. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
237: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 Fr d ric Amiel, #NFDB
238:The saint is the apology for the Christian religion. He is holy, however, because he allows Christ to live in him and it is in Christ that he "glories". ~ Hans Urs von Balthasar, #NFDB
239:. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
240: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, #NFDB
241:You are there and to their ears, being a Syrian sounds like you’re unclean, shameful, indecent; it’s like you owe the world an apology for your very existence. ~ Asaad Almohammad, #NFDB
242:I don’t want your apology, least of all for being afraid,” he said. “Without fear, what would we be? Mad dogs with foam on our muzzles and shit drying on our hocks. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
243:...there was another way to live. A way that did not involve anesthetizing yourself. A way that did not mean you lived your whole life as an apology for who you were. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
244: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. ~ Christopher Pike, #NFDB
245:Now she remembered. He owed her an apology. "Say you're sorry."
"For what?"
"Just say it."
She didn't hear his reply. The world had grown very dark indeed. ~ Leigh Bardugo,#NFDB
246: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?' ~ Kourtney Kardashian, #NFDB
247:I didn’t come looking for an apology, Jesper. You have a weak spot. We all have weak spots.”
“What’s yours?”
“The company I keep,” she said with a slight smile. ~ Leigh Bardugo,#NFDB
248:Neither am I. A grown man should be able to acknowledge a sincerely offered apology and converse in sentences consisting of more than five words. Good day, Dr. Lee. ~ Beverly Jenkins, #NFDB
249:I will speak, though my sounds are crude. I will use words long denied to me, with no apology for how corrupt they sound. My listeners will hear what they choose to hear. ~ Julie Berry, #NFDB
250:A chastened Wilson wrote a letter of apology on the official stationery of the New Jersey executive mansion, expressing himself “very much mortified” by his mistake. ~ James M McPherson, #NFDB
251:I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War. ~ Kirk Douglas, #NFDB
252: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, #NFDB
253:He kisses me with a passion I’ve never felt before. It’s soft and sweet but there’s so much more to it. It’s a hello. It’s a goodbye. It’s an apology. It’s a declaration. And ~ K Bromberg, #NFDB
254: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. ~ Dana Gioia, #NFDB
255:I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
256:You can waste years trying—but you will never find that magical ‘good enough’ until you find it in yourself to stand up and accept who you are without reservation or apology. ~ Jess Haines, #NFDB
257:I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right. ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
258:Clay pushed his body off him and mumbled another apology - because, enemy or not, when you hit a man in the nuts with a magic hammer the least you could say was sorry. ~ Nicholas Eames, #NFDB
259:I didn't know that an apology could actually help; I always though saying sorry was more about alleviating guilt, that apologies were designed for the mouth, not for the ears. ~ Swati Avasthi, #NFDB
260:Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures. ~ Richard Widmark, #NFDB
261:Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood. ~ Patti Davis, #NFDB
262: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. ~ Kid Cudi, #NFDB
263:Somewhere deep inside many of us is an apology for our very existence. As Anne Wilson Schaef writes, “The original sin of being born female is not redeemable by works.”3 No ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
264:It was to Rupa and Piu that I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that what was done was done, that no matter what I said now I would never be able to make it right. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
265:The ability to apologize sincerely and express regret for the unskillful things we say or do is an art. A true apology can relieve a great deal of suffering in the other person. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
266: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. ~ Robin Quivers, #NFDB
267:Hurt people hurt people more skillfully. An expert heartbreaker knows the effect of each incision. The blade slips in barely noticed, the pain and the apology delivered at the same time. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
268:The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
269:Her mother was explaining, calmly and without apparent apology, that the vessel we'd been sailing twenty-one years ago had capsized and that she'd claimed the only seat on the lifeboat. ~ Monica Wood, #NFDB
270:Like apples of gold in a silver setting is a word that is aptly spoken. It is a golden ring, an ornament of finest gold, such is a wise apology to an attentive ear.” —Proverbs 25:11–12 ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
271:Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
272:Sorry Pa," I managed to finally say, choking on my own words. It was the hardest apology I have ever made in my life.
I truly meant it. But I had no words left to convey its depth. ~ Preeti Shenoy,#NFDB
273:When I make a decision, I will stand behind it. My energy will go into making the decision. I will waste none on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement. ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
274:she went as a “formal apology”: she wore a floor-length evening gown we found at Goodwill for ten dollars, and she had a sign around her neck, written in calligraphy, which said, I’m sorry. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
275:Goddammit, Pen!" Lightning lit him from behind. "That's not happening. And if you ever use magic on me again without my permission, we're done. You owe me a fucking apology for last time. ~ Ellen Connor, #NFDB
276:I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology. ~ Hume Cronyn, #NFDB
277:I’m sorry for the way I acted.”
“Apology accepted. And I’m sorry for calling you a narcissistic bastard.”
My brows drew down. “You didn’t.”
She smiled. “Oh well, I thought it, then. ~ Vi Keeland,#NFDB
278:see, now, that it was wrong for me to curse your particular blood to a diseased eternity of suffering. In an attempt at magnanimity I extend an apology and retract my sanguinary execration. ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
279:I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it. ~ Odette Annable, #NFDB
280:To my wonderful readers. Sorry about that apology for that last cliffhanger. I’ll try to avoid cliffhangers in this book. Well, except for maybe a few small ones... because I love you guys. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
281:Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us. ~ Rachel Held Evans, #NFDB
282:Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure is made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us. ~ Rachel Held Evans, #NFDB
283:Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
284:It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
285:I can feel the apology in his fingers, and this takes the wind out of me, so I lean into him—just a little—and read over his shoulder. His hand is warm and I don’t want to stop holding it. We ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
286:She could show her daughter that there was another way to live. A way that did not involve anesthetizing yourself. A way that did not mean you lived your whole life as an apology for who you were. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
287:There was no echo, no reverberation. If anything the room ate sound. It swallowed her voice, her words, and her eternal, inadequate apology. But not her memories. She would never be rid of those. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
288:I pulled her arms around me without apology, tight enough that it was difficult to expand my chest enough to fully inhale but for the first time all night, I felt like I could breathe.-pg 232/ARC ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
289:Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure is made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us. Church ~ Rachel Held Evans, #NFDB
290:Just this minute, I'll settle for an apology, she decided. And I wont' board the boat without one. Even if Kaz isn't sorry, he can pretend. He at least owes me his best imitation of a human being. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
291:You hit something. That alone would disconcert you. You find you have hit an Angel, and he writhes about for a minute and then sits up and addresses you. He makes no apology for his own impossibility. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
292:I actually think that the president owes the Jews of Europe an apology. They deserve better from the President of the United States. Anti-semitism is on the rise, and somebody must stick up for them. ~ Dana Perino, #NFDB
293:I’m sorry. No.” Her mouth continued to move, too fast, pouring out a stream of
explanation and apology.
Jim didn’t need to understand all the words. “Sorry, sorry, sorry, but no,” they all said. ~ Bonnie Dee,#NFDB
294:It depressed him to consider how much energy he had wasted, over the years, in the self-denying posture of apology. From now on, whatever else his life might hold, there would be no more apologies. ~ Richard Yates, #NFDB
295:And I know that apology is for so many things. For what can never be. For what should be. For hurting me. For not being the person I need him to be. For not being able to confront whatever is in his past. ~ K Bromberg, #NFDB
296:Coded language allows the speaker to deny any sort of responsibility unless their back is against the wall, in which case they’ll generally offer up a paltry “I’m sorry you feel that way” nonapology. ~ Phoebe Robinson, #NFDB
297: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, #NFDB
298: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! ~ Kathy Griffin, #NFDB
299:In his apology, Arnold Schwarzenegger said he was sorry to the women that he groped, and he admitted that he had acted badly. Not only that, Arnold then apologized for acting badly in all of his movies. ~ Conan O Brien, #NFDB
300:I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. ~ G H Hardy, #NFDB
301: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, #NFDB
302:I drew a vicious cartoon of an Islamic extremist as a dog, knowing full well what an insult that was is in the Islamic world. Furthermore, I added an apology to dogs everywhere (being a dog lover myself). ~ Terry Mosher, #NFDB
303: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. ~ Augusten Burroughs, #NFDB
304:I'm sorry,' I said. 'I'm sorry for everything. For the past and the future.' An apology, said while in dull pain, made me feel as close to human as it was possible to feel. I could almost have written a poem. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
305:I came into business to make money, I make no apology for that. I wanted to make a lot of money but after the first £50million or £100million, it became less about making money and more about having fun. ~ Michael O Leary, #NFDB
306:Too long I've owed you this apology
For the apparently unmeaning sorrow
You were afflicted with in those old days.
But it was of the essence of the trial
You shouldn't understand it at the time. ~ Robert Frost,#NFDB
307:Two things I learned a long time ago, Cate: Don't hold a grudge longer than it takes to work your way through a pan of brownies all by yourself, and don't begrudge someone an apology if they deserve it. ~ Alyssa Goodnight, #NFDB
308: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, #NFDB
309:I’m Emma, by the way. Emma Carter.’ She began to stretch out her hand but her son wriggled a protest, so she shrugged an apology, looping her hands together to hitch him up to a more comfortable position. ~ Teresa Driscoll, #NFDB
310:The pain of an injury is over in seconds. Everything that comes after is the pain of getting well." He gave her a heartfelt look, full of apology. "I'd forgotten that you see. Coming back to life ... It hurts. ~ Tessa Dare, #NFDB
311: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, #NFDB
312:If you've done something wrong in your dealings with another person, it's as if there's an infection in your relationship. A good apology is like an antibiotic ; a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound. ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
313:Ms. Kyle McHugh, I assume. It’s my pleasure to make your acquaintance. My name is Blake Hartt, and I’m entirely to blame for Livia’s clean face. I let the rain wash everything away. Please accept my apology. ~ Debra Anastasia, #NFDB
314:I am sorry," was all Drizzt could quietly mouth.
Vierna shook her head, refusing any apology. To Drizzt, it seemed as if that buried part of her that was Zaknafein Do'Urden's daughter approved of this ending. ~ R A Salvatore,#NFDB
315:Later in the morning a messenger brought Mr Reeder to the chief's office, and he arrived with that ineffable air of apology and diffidence which gave the uninitiated such an altogether wrong idea of his calibre. ~ Edgar Wallace, #NFDB
316:Darling, family can be the very devil in disguise. More powerful than any drug, more alluring than any sin. They can demand a loyalty that will rip your heart out and chew it up without the thought of an apology. ~ Liz Reinhardt, #NFDB
317:She had once concluded everyone on earth was a servant to the previous generation—born from the body’s factory for entertainment and use. A life could be spent like an apology—to prove you had been worth it. ~ Elizabeth Mckenzie, #NFDB
318:My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
319:Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have..." or "Sorry, but I just didn't..." They apologize while telling you that they were right all along, which is the opposite of an actual apology. ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
320:And of course they used her like a disposable object, without regret or apology, because that’s what privilege is—the license to treat other people like shit while still getting to believe that you’re a good person. ~ Tom Perrotta, #NFDB
321:Gotten butt-ass, bone-dog naked for your vadge-cam?" Dante offered with an angelic smile, standing close.
"Fucking hell, D." Griff turned to Beth with an apology, but she spoke first.
"Huh-yeah. Thanks, cockbreath. ~ Damon Suede,#NFDB
322:I’m hoping for an apology. An acknowledgement that she’s made me feel like crap about myself again, but obviously I don’t get anything like that out of her. She just sits in front of my mirror, rearranging her cleavage. ~ Dawn O Porter, #NFDB
323:An apology is supposed to be a communion—a coming together. For someone to make an apology, someone has to be listening. They listen and you speak and there’s an exchange. That’s why we have a thing about accepting apologies. ~ Jon Ronson, #NFDB
324:I don't even think you should tell the audience you're improvising. It's like an apology in case it's bad : 'we're just making it up' If the improv isn't better than the rehearsed stuff, then you should just rehearse it. ~ Keith Johnstone, #NFDB
325:Just show him that I didn't need his apology, I guess. Show him that I was okay. Better than okay. I was happy, in spite of everything he'd done to me, and no, I didn't forgive him. God help me, I would not forgive him. ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
326:Faolan launched himself across the bridge, uttering a prayer to any deity that might be prepared to listen. "Let me reach her in time, let her keep hold, let this wretched apology for a bridge not crumble under my feet... ~ Juliet Marillier, #NFDB
327:President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that -- Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
328: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, #NFDB
329:It's awkward and silent as I wait for you to say, what I need to hear now, your sincere apology. When you mean it, I'll believe it, if you text it I'll delete, let's be clear. Oh, I'm not coming back, you're taking 7 steps here. ~ Miley Cyrus, #NFDB
330:It's awkward and silent as I wait for you to say, what I need to hear now, your sincere apology. When you mean it, I'll believe it, if you text it I'll delete, let's be clear. Oh, I'm not coming back, you're taking 7 steps here... ~ Miley Cyrus, #NFDB
331:She says everything in this hug—every thank-you, every I-love-you, every apology. I squeeze her back to thank her, to make her feel my love, to apologize, and everything else that falls deep inside and skirts outside these realms. ~ Adam Silvera, #NFDB
332:Being broke is not a crime, nor is it proof of one’s inadequacy as a writer or as a human being. If you go around with an attitude of implicit apology for being temporarily without funds, it’s going to do you more harm than good. ~ Lawrence Block, #NFDB
333:A true apology is more than just aknowledgment of a mistake. It is recognition that something you have said or done has damaged a relationship and that you care enough about the relationship to want it repaired and restored. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
334: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, #NFDB
335:In Plato’s Apology, Socrates defines his life’s mission as awakening the Athenians to the supreme importance of attending to their souls. His timeless plea that we connect to ourselves remains the only way for any of us to truly thrive. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
336:Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology. ~ Patricia J Williams, #NFDB
337:I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I was wrong. He called me to tell me after Pat Robertson's endorsement, there's an Amen in every sentence he says too. ~ Joe Biden, #NFDB
338:Don't apologize."
"I wasn't-"
"Not in words, but it was clear from your tone. Apology suggests that you are keeping me from doing what I need to do, which implies I am somehow powerless to do otherwise. It's a choice, Olivia. ~ Kelley Armstrong,#NFDB
339:I know you're mad at me," he says, looking down at me. His eyes and his words are full of remorse, but the apology still doesn't come. "I need you to be mad at me, Sky. But I think I need you to still want me here with you even more. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
340:In On Apology, Aaron Lazare offers a similar sentiment: “what makes an apology work is the exchange of shame and power between the offender and the offended. By apologizing, you take the shame of your offense and redirect it to yourself. ~ Paul Bloom, #NFDB
341:Breckin deserved an apology. I acted like an asshole that day." "And I didn't deserve one?" He looks at me dead in this time. "No," he says firmly, turning his gaze back to the road. "You don't deserve words, Sky. You deserve actions. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
342:She was a pious Buddhist and every day in her prayers asked Buddha not ro reincarnate her as a woman. "Let me become a cat or dog, but not a woman," was her constant murmur as she shuffled around the house, oozing apology with every step. ~ Jung Chang, #NFDB
343:craves control more than sociability. She will email a “Sorry” instead of delivering a face-to-face apology; at work, as in her personal life, when she faces a difficult conversation, she makes every effort to sidestep it with an email. ~ Sherry Turkle, #NFDB
344:'I'm sorry' won't fix what's been broken. It can't reverse time or undo the damage or change anything that happened. But a sincere, humble apology can serve to soften the sting and sometimes do a pretty good patch up job. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
345:In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful." The press was busy printing money. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith, #NFDB
346:(..) she cried and cried and cried, there weren't any napkins nearby so I ripped the page from the book - "I don't speak. I'm sorry." - and used it to dry her cheeks, my explanation and apology ran down her face like mascara (..) ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
347:Then Lymond’s voice, the chill gone, said, ‘Don’t be an ass, Jerott? You know I can’t do without you.’ It was an obvious answer. But it was also something Jerott had never had from Lymond before: an apology and an appeal both at once. ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
348:Being different will always threaten the institution of understanding of a closed mind. However, evolution is built on difference, changing and the concept of thinking outside the box. Live to be your own unique brand, without apology. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
349:I thought about bringing flowers, but I didn’t want you throwing them at me.” “I don’t want your flowers. I don’t want anything from you.” “Not even an apology?” “You expect me to believe you’re sorry?” “It’d be asking a lot, I know. ~ Johnnie Alexander, #NFDB
350:One of the worst ways is the non-apology apology, which sounds like an apology but doesn’t really accept any blame. For example, “We’re sorry if this upset you.” Or “I’m sorry that you don’t feel we lived up to your expectations.” Whatever. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
351:He’s only trying to minimize the casualties. You can’t blame him for that.”
“Tell me what I can blame him for, then.”
“In this situation?” A note of apology entered his voice. “Being realistic.”
Kathleen gave him a reproachful glance. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
352:I swallow any sort of apology.
"screwing your neighbor."
There. Said it. React, okay?
pregnant pause becomes three
weeks overdue. Four weeks.
Time for a C-section. What?
Oh, Kaeleigh, I'm so sorry.
Are you sure...? ~ Ellen Hopkins,#NFDB
353:Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you! ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
354:I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map. ~ Kathleen Raine, #NFDB
355:Was that it?” “What do you mean?” “Was that your apology? I wasn’t sure. Sometimes people say ‘I want to apologize,’ and then that’s supposed to be their apology, when in fact, by saying they want to apologize, they manage to avoid the actual apology. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
356:The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias.... There's too much tilt toward the left-wing agenda. Too much apology for liberal policy failures. Too much pandering to liberal candidates and causes. ~ William Kristol, #NFDB
357:My mom has a written apology from me for the entire category of brutal sarcasm. Eli has one entitled Excessive Bitchiness, Hogging of Parental Attention by Repeatedly Being Sick Unto Death but Not Actually Dying, and Variant Category: Theft of Clothing. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
358:This poem is not afraid of being imprisoned.
This poem does not comply to client demands.
This poem is pornographic.
This poem will not tender an unconditional apology.
This poem will not be Penguined.
This poem will not be pulped. ~ Meena Kandasamy,#NFDB
359:Yes, and in your mail the apology note appears referring to “our mistake.” Apparently your own invisibility is the real problem causing her confusion. This is how the apparatus she propels you into begins to multiply its meaning. What did you say? ~ Claudia Rankine, #NFDB
360:I am confident in my opinions and believe I have a right to share my point of view without apology. This confidence tends to upset people who disagree with me. Rarely are my actual ideas engaged. Instead, my weight is discussed. “You are fat,” they say. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
361:Listen I don't expect an apology from men like Chuck Schumer, and I would put him and other individuals who were attacking me at the top of the list contributing to the low, low public perception of Congress, the integrity of Congress quite frankly. ~ Alberto Gonzales, #NFDB
362:But you see, the problem is that apologies are really just little weeds that grow over monuments and headstones. They keep coming back, but never stop ruining what lies beneath. If an apology is truly authentic, the pain is supposed to stop. Right? ~ Elizabeth L Silver, #NFDB
363:Witch, goodwill is not something that needs an apology. You were betrayed. Your trust was abused. If there are strangers who thrive on such things, they will ever remain strangers – because they have no other choice. Pity Tulas Shorn and those like it. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
364:stopped him, pushing him to his feet again by the tip of my sword. “It shouldn’t matter if I am a tavern maid or a princess. When I see you treating others with respect without regard to their station—or anatomy—then your apology will mean something.” I ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB
365:When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology. ~ S Bear Bergman, #NFDB
366:Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great honor to be a Nobel Prize laureate, but really, what I love best is staying home and being a mother to Kevin and Annie"). ~ Harriet Lerner, #NFDB
367:Earlier this week, Marlon Brando met with Jewish leaders to apologize for comments he made on Larry King Live, among them that “Hollywood is run by Jews.” The Jewish leaders accepted the actor’s apology and announced that Brando is now free to work again. ~ Norm Macdonald, #NFDB
368:I actually have a long apology letter from Robert Brustein, saying, "I'm so sorry this happened to you. I didn't realize the people who were running the acting department at the drama school hated actors." They did. And they were fired when I graduated. ~ Sigourney Weaver, #NFDB
369:I guess we didn't even officially apologize. Jesse Jackson called on the United States to officially apologize to the Chinese. Jesse said, 'An apology is not a sign of weakness.' And as President Clinton has taught us, an apology isn't even a sign you're sorry. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
370:The etiquette business has its emergencies, heaven knows, but it is in the nature of etiquette emergencies that once one realizes what one has done, it is too late. One might as well get a good night's sleep and send flowers with an apology in the morning. ~ Judith Martin, #NFDB
371:If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write about what he knows, and since I know nothing about any subject it scarcely matters where I dabble. ~ William T Vollmann, #NFDB
372:The Irish storyteller ate the cream tea that was on display in the England Room when no one was looking, and the England Room got all upset and demanded an apology. I’m sure if it had been anyone but someone from the Ireland Room, they wouldn’t have cared. ~ Katherine Heiny, #NFDB
373:He understood (what so many fautlessly polite people do not understand) that a stiff apology is a second insult. He understood that the injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
374:I unlocked the door to the room and we went inside. “Sorry about the procedures,” I said, removing the earpiece. I turned off the phone and left it by the door. The apology was perfunctory. So was the shrug she offered in response. I bolted the door behind us. ~ Barry Eisler, #NFDB
375:A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold on to this book. ~ Christine Schutt, #NFDB
376:Life is so easy when you are young, she thinks. You can say and do almost anything, safe in the knowledge that an apology will make everything better. The older you get, the more impact those harmful words and deeds have. Once said, those words cannot be unspoken. ~ Jane Green, #NFDB
377:There are some things for which there is no apology, and on the question of slavery, there is no adequate apology for ripping people out of their homeland and bringing them here in chains. There is no adequate apology for the ongoing horrific legacy of racism. ~ Harriet Lerner, #NFDB
378:The English language only had one way of apology.
Japanese had over twenty.
I’d use all of them if it meant the heaviness in my chest would ease.
I would murmur them forever if I could somehow find redemption.
But for now, all I could offer was one. ~ Pepper Winters,#NFDB
379:You need to hear what I have to say," she said. Donald waited. What explanation or apology was there? She had taken from him what little Thurman had left behind. Her father had destroyed the world. Anna had destroyed Donald’s. He waited to hear what she had to say. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
380:He didn't answer, but I wasn't bothered. I was flattered that we'd gotten to this stage already, that our minds could wander without apology. We passed through a long swath of fireflies, thousands of them flashing all round us, and it felt like soaring through stars. ~ Lily King, #NFDB
381:The life of a star of this type and magnitude. Isn't the life structured to cut you down early? This is the point, isn't it? There are rules, guidelines. If you don't have the grace and wit to die early, you are forced to vanish, to hide as if in shame and apology. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
382:When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth, so that's OK with me. If something true came out, I would have to check my circle to see who's talking and possibly make an apology phone call to my parents! ~ Eva Mendes, #NFDB
383:She moaned as I left the realm of sanity and poured every apology, every regret, I had into her mouth and down her throat and into her fucking heart. I wanted her to know that she owned me. I needed her to know she’d helped me—more than she knew. More than anyone. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
384:Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. ~ Matt Taibbi, #NFDB
385:I inhale, trying not to smile. “Maybe I can try to accept your apology.”
“Maybe,” he repeats like I’m full of shit and I’ve already scribbled hearts about M + F in my diary. Just so you know, I don’t have a diary. And if I did…Farrow would be all over it. ~ Krista Ritchie,#NFDB
386:There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on mounts and signs announcing artist Photographer, Artistic Photography Studio, etc., and the lower the standard the more frantic the claim. ~ Gertrude Kasebier, #NFDB
387:Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
388: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, #NFDB
389:The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
390:I had no business trying to see you leave, see death arrive, I owe you an apology, an elegy, I owe you the drift of memory, the praise of everything, of saying it was the best decision of my life, to hold you full, hold you empty, & live as the only bond between the two. ~ Bob Hicok, #NFDB
391:in my experience when a women runs away, nine times out of ten, you can't go after her fast enough,' he said, 'preferably worth a gift and a grovelling apology. when a man leaves, it's because he needs to lick his wounds for a while. if he's worth having, he'll come back. ~ Lindsey Kelk, #NFDB
392:As it was mid-afternoon in New York, one of his most dangerous men answered on the second ring. “Please, tell me Pivchenko has surfaced,” Lucian unabashedly begged. “I’m sorry,” Zlatan said with a mix of apology and frustration in his voice. “There is no sign of him yet. ~ Nancy Haviland, #NFDB
393:Her boldness, which I'd always thought I'd been borrowing from her, had become mine in ways I didn't realize until she was gone. I didn't flinch around people who didn't like me; I didn't feel anymore like being myself was something for which I owed the world an apology. ~ Danielle Evans, #NFDB
394:Her technique was not perfect. Here and there he heard an off-pitch note, and her run of sixteenths was uneven. But her attack was fierce, her bow digging into the strings with such confidence that even her mistakes sounded intentional, every note played without apology. ~ Tess Gerritsen, #NFDB
395:His smile was instinctive. A little bit apology, a little bit politeness. And a little bit of charm because, of all the things he’d expected to come from his trip to the market, meeting a cute girl with messy hair and dirty work gloves had definitely not been one of them. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
396:If you were able to take an armed kidnapper who’d been surrounded by police and hook him up to a cardiac monitor, you’d find that every calibrated question and apology would lower his heart rate just a little bit. And that’s how you get to a dynamic where solutions can be found. ~ Chris Voss, #NFDB
397: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, #NFDB
398:Micah lives like an apology. He blushes when he breathes because he's taking someone else's air. It's like all Micah wants is to disappear, and he thinks if he's quiet enough, if he keeps his eyes on the ground and barely breathes and treads lightly, people will forget he exists. ~ Amy Zhang, #NFDB
399:The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said; for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved. When ~ Frederick Douglass, #NFDB
400:He left before the sun came up but those still small hours lying in my bed, our bodies melded, I’ll never forget as long as I live. He kissed the inside of my palm, his touch gentle and his gaze soft. I wasn’t sure if it was a silent apology or a surrender of his ironclad heart. ~ Winter Renshaw, #NFDB
401: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, #NFDB
402:Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive. ~ Germaine Greer, #NFDB
403:I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian coworkers at 30 Rock, without whom Tracy would not have lines to say, clothes to wear, sets to stand on, scene partners to act with, or a printed-out paycheck from accounting to put in his pocket. ~ Tina Fey, #NFDB
404:I’m not blamin’ yeh!” said Hagrid, waving Harry’s apology aside. “Gawd knows yeh’ve had enough ter be gettin’ on with. I’ve seen yeh practicin’ Quidditch ev’ry hour o’ the day an’ night — but I gotta tell yeh, I thought you two’d value yer friend more’n broomsticks or rats. Tha’s all. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
405:Hey,” said Bubba. “You owe me an apology.” Sheriff John choked for a moment. “I don’t think so.” “Cain’t you even say you was wrong about me?” “I notice that your accent goes country when you want it to,” Sheriff John remarked, folding his massive arms across his chest. Bubba mimicked ~ C L Bevill, #NFDB
406:It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary. ~ Stephen Fry, #NFDB
407:The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached. ... An apology for America's values is never the right course. ... The statement that came from the administration was - was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a - a severe miscalculation. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
408:Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape. ~ James Randi, #NFDB
409:Never will I sit motionless while directly or indirectly apology is made for the murder of the helpless. In securing any kind ofpeace, the first essential is to guarantee to every man the most elementary of rights: the right to his own life. Murder is not debatable.
-Theodore Roosevelt ~ R C Sproul,#NFDB
410:Sometimes, "I told him, as the darkness swirled closer and closer, "you just have to say you're sorry."
It's more than that, and I think by then I knew it. It's more than saying sorry.
It's meaning it. It's letting the apology change things. But an apology is where it has to begin. ~ Neil Gaiman,#NFDB
411:What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care, or the actual need some have for an apology from an entity so evil that he would toy with the lives of millions as though they were insects and he God? This is hard to tell. ~ Ilana Mercer, #NFDB
412:If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed the resolution for the apology, but it has to pass the Senate. I think, in spite of all our problems, I think we're in the right direction. ~ Kirk Douglas, #NFDB
413: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, #NFDB
414:Let me offer this apology. Please excuse this self-indulgent preface. I know what I am doing. I am presenting a series of reasons as to why you should lower your expectations, so that you can be blown away by my sneaky insights about life and work. I am a grown woman. I know my own tricks! ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
415:But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re
really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one. ~ Deb Caletti,#NFDB
416:Her laugh was a travesty. Which made sense because in a way, so was his apology. But what was he supposed to say?
I want you until I hurt. Until I sweat.
I love you with a raw, bleeding need that I've never understood.
And all I know for sure is that you can never be mine. ~ Jessica Bird,#NFDB
417:I’m sorry, Imi.” His apology whispered in my ears as I left the room. But it was the words that followed that burrowed deep.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t be who you deserved.”
I stopped just before opening the door.
“I’m sorry I believed that you already were,” I responded softly. ~ A Meredith Walters,#NFDB
418:It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said, as an apology for the injustice, that were a workman to receive an increase of wages daily he would not save it against old age, nor be much better for it in the interim. ~ Thomas Paine, #NFDB
419:in March 2000, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright offered an apology for the U.S. role in the August events. She offered carefully worded regrets for the fact that the United States had “played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran’s popular Prime Minister” in 1953. ~ Abbas Milani, #NFDB
420:Rage rises up in me until my whole body is scorched, for some kinds of burning don’t require a fire. Not a word of love, not a word of apology for the sorrow he has caused me. Not a word about the unjust and cruel way in which he sent me away. He hasn’t even called me by my name. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, #NFDB
421:"Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. I was like: "Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. You want to have me on your shelves." ~ Kanye West, #NFDB
422:He says goodbye to my mother, and then he speaks again, without hesitation or apology. “I’m not good at making promises. But I would like you to know I’ve never been serious about a girl until I met your daughter, and now that I know I’m the first man she’s brought home, I’m aiming to be the last. ~ Katy Evans, #NFDB
423:I shall neither trouble the reader, nor myself, with any apology for publishing of these sermons; for if they be, in any measure, truly serviceable to the end for which they are designed, I do not see what apology is necessary; and if they be not so, I am sure none can be sufficient.Tillotson. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
424:And that evening, the president traveled to West Virginia to deliver a speech before the Boy Scouts of America. Once more, his speech was totally at odds with time, place, and good sense. It prompted an immediate apology from the Boy Scouts to its members, their parents, and the country at large. ~ Michael Wolff, #NFDB
425:Mercy is radical kindness. Mercy means offering or being offered aid in desperate straits. Mercy is not deserved. It involves absolving the unabsolvable, forgiving the unforgivable. Mercy brings us to the miracle of apology, given and accepted, to unashamed humility when we have erred or forgotten. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
426:A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well. God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
427:Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
428:The first time I tongue you into coming, it’s going to be an apology. The second time will be a reward for waiting.” He fell to his knees and took his first intoxicating taste of Lucy. A growl worked its way free of his chest. “The third time is going to be because I fucking love to hear you scream. ~ Tessa Bailey, #NFDB
429:Within the scope of universal time, it seems I’ll be dead a whole lot longer than I’ll be alive. So while I’m here, I will not worship death; I’ll worship life. I’ll live life to the fullest… victories, losses, success, mistakes, love, and hurt… I’ll live and learn to the fullest; without apology. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
430:Humanitarianism needs no apology, even when its objects are Russians or Communists. Unless we recover that concern and feel it toward all men without exception, including those who are on the other side in every fratricidal dispute, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history. ~ Ralph Barton Perry, #NFDB
431:I kept my hands firmly on the iron rail before me. Grabbing the weight bar and walloping the Beast Lord upside the head wouldn’t be the best diplomatic move.
“I’m sorry, Your Majesty.” There. I was civil. It almost killed me.
“Apology accepted.”
“Will there be anything else?”Your Arrogance. ~ Ilona Andrews,#NFDB
432:So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
433:What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from his work? What do they expect? What is there left of him when he's done his work? What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology. ~ William Gaddis, #NFDB
434: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, #NFDB
435:Within the scope of universal time, it seems I’ll be dead a whole lot longer than I’ll be alive. So while I’m here, I will not worship death; I’ll worship life. I’ll live life to the fullest… victories, losses, successes, mistakes, love, and hurt… I’ll live and learn to the fullest; without apology. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
436:I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
437:Lux, you better not die, because… well…” I stopped and turned to face him, awaiting his apology. “We really need to return that dress to Luster.” He grinned. “If you die, we’ll be in deep shit.” I flipped him off and turned on my heel, listening to the fresh round of cackles erupting from Fae and Simon. ~ Julie Johnson, #NFDB
438:Will looked up angrily, shaking his head in disbelief. Will you shut up? he said tautly. Horace shrugged in apology. 'I'm sorry' he said, I sneezed. A person can't help it when they sneeze. Perhaps not. But you could try to make it sound a little less like an elephant trumpeting in agony; Will told him. ~ John Flanagan, #NFDB
439:A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well.
God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen. ~ Libba Bray,#NFDB
440:I was left to ponder over the power of a simple apology. A taming of one’s ego, an admission of being fallible… the effect that these things could have on a relationship was profound. I couldn’t help but feel that if more people were ready to apologize in the world, it would be a brighter, happier place. ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
441:There was an apology from the ax-wielding Hermione, but according to her mother she was detained in the woods dealing with a very large and troublesome Pinus, which caused Vimes’s face to go blank until Sybil nudged him and pointed out that the pinus strobus was the official name for the white pine. But ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
442:But there is a world of difference between dancing and watching a dance performed by a group of professionals who are paid for it. You work hard during the day, and when you are tired in the evening you go to a concert to watch others dancing. It is all you can do, but it is not even an apology for celebration. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
443:It's clear he still feels something, but what? Is the whole reason he made such a big deal about wanting to talk to me so he could have a chance to apologize? Well, I don't want his apology. You don't get to break someone's heart and think everything is fine just because you say sorry. That's just not fair. ~ Carey Heywood, #NFDB
444:Sorry I called you Goat-molester,” Virgil said. “It was the first thing that came into my head, honestly.”
“I don’t need your damn apology!”
“Then why are you here?”
“I came here to kick your ass!”
“You might want to do that from a standing position.”
“Screw you! I’ll get up in my own time! ~ Derek Landy,#NFDB
445:There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon’s breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value. Often now I lift my cup in a futile toast, an apology to ears that cannot hear: ~ R A Salvatore, #NFDB
446:The sense that in his mother’s view, he had let down his family just by being who he was… was a failure of acceptance that he was never going to get over. He just wanted to live, honestly and out front, with no apology. Like everyone else. To love who he loved, be who he was… but society had a different standard. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
447:I’m so sorry we were late,” she was apologizing in her Lauren Bacall gracious woman mode, the one that always made people accept her apology. “John wasn’t sure until the last minute whether he felt like coming or not. But I did so want to meet Aurora’s new neighbors, and it was so kind of you to invite us… ~ Charlaine Harris, #NFDB
448:I walked by a dry cleaner at 3 am, and there was a sign: "Sorry, we're closed" You don't have to be sorry, it's 3 am, and you're a dry cleaner! It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open! I'm not gonna walk in at 10 am and say "I walked by here at 3 and you were closed - somebody owes me an apology!" ~ Mitch Hedberg, #NFDB
449:For him, that was an apology on bended knee. Anything more than he just managed, and he'll overload his sentimentality quota."
Richard Dalrymple gasped. "Never tell me he still has the sentimentality quota."
Miranda's look of surprise mirrored his. "Never tell me that the sentimentality quota truly exists. ~ Courtney Milan,#NFDB
450:I feel that the Photograph creates my body or mortifies it, according to its caprice (apology of this mortiferous power: certain Communards paid with their lives for their willingness or even their eagerness to pose on the barricades: defeated, they were recognized by Thiers's police and shot, almost every one). ~ Roland Barthes, #NFDB
451:Will looked up angrily, shaking his head in disbelief.
Will you shut up? he said tautly.
Horace shrugged in apology. 'I'm sorry' he said, I sneezed. A person can't help it when they sneeze.
Perhaps not. But you could try to make it sound a little less like an elephant trumpeting in agony; Will told him. ~ John Flanagan,#NFDB
452:I am not the man I was,” Senlin said abruptly, as if he were afraid to delay the confession any longer. His friends around the table looked to him expectantly. This would be the apology then, and knowing Senlin it would be long-winded, roundabout, and obscure. They collectively braced themselves for the oration. ~ Josiah Bancroft, #NFDB
453:Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
454:Will looked up angrily, shaking his head in disbelief.
Will you shut up? he said tautly.
Horace shrugged in apology. 'I'm sorry' he said, I sneezed. A person can't help it when they sneeze.
Perhaps not. But you could try to make it sound a little less like an elephant trumpeting in agony; Will told him. ~ John Flanagan,#NFDB
455:There was nothing else I could do but say sorry myself. His apology had left a residue in me, a residue on my thinking, and continuing on in this house without saying it would be entirely awkward. It would turn the small space toxic. So I said it, though I tried to lessen the potency of the apology by mumbling. ~ Alexandra Kleeman, #NFDB
456:He did not speak; merely looked at her with an expression she had seen traces of before but never fully understood until that moment. It was more apology than accusation---a dark stare of acknowledgment that told her he had long since seen his own fate in her actions, and had long since ceased to hold her responsible. ~ Anne Fortier, #NFDB
457:I expect some fast reply, something flirty and flip, but instead he doesn't look up, just reaches for my hand and keeps reading. I can feel the apology in his fingers, and this takes the wind out of me, so I lean into him-just a little-and read over his shoulder. His hand is warm and I don't want to stop holding it. ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
458:It is an apology,” he said, “for not believing in you . . . or in us. Yesterday, I thought I’d lost you, and then we fought together,” he said. “I pushed you away for fear of what our relationship would do, could do, to this House. And then we protected this House together. That is the true measure of what we could do. ~ Chloe Neill, #NFDB
459:One I did, Travis flipped off the lamp, and then pulled me against him without permission or apology. He tensed his arms and sighed, and I nestled my face into his neck. I shut my eyes tight, trying to savor the moment. I knew I would wish for that moment back every day of my life, so I lived it with everything I had. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
460:What was it about an apology that was so difficult? It always felt like it cost something personal and precious. Only now that she was a mother was she so aware of this: the stubbornness and pride that came with being human, the desire to be loyal and generous that came too, each impulse at odds with the other. ~ Fatima Farheen Mirza, #NFDB
461:The pressure in the airlock grew, and the folds of her suit found every raised scar across her body, wrinkles pressing where wrinkles had once burned. It was a million pricks from a million gentle needles, every sensitive part of her touched all at once, as if this airlock remembered, as if it knew her. A lover's apology. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
462:Merrick and I had both had tattoos, my magpie and his elephant and castle, imposed on us as…it’s a long story. A reward, or apology, or both, from the Dragon Head, or grand master, of one of the larger criminal organisations in China after we accidentally saved his son’s life.”
“Accidentally?”
“It’s a VERY long story. ~ K J Charles,#NFDB
463:The best apologies are short, and don't go on to include explanations that run the risk of undoing them. An apology isn't the only chance you ever get to address the underlying issue. The apology is the chance you get to establish the ground for future communication. This is an important and often overlooked distinction. ~ Harriet Lerner, #NFDB
464:Kitty shook her head. "You're wrong. Your apology isn't irrelevant and you're a fool if you can't see it. I'm grateful that you stopped Makepeace from having me killed. Now stop being such a wet blanket and try to think of something to do."
He looked at her. "Hold on—was there a thanks buried in that pile of invective? ~ Jonathan Stroud,#NFDB
465:The spiritual man in mythology, in literature and in the great world religions has an excess of life, he knows he has it, makes no apology for it, and finally recognizes that he does not even need to protect or guard it. It is not for him. It is for others. His life is not his own. His life is not about him. It is about God. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
466:Halfhearted or insincere apologies are often worse than not apologizing at all because recipients find them insulting. If you've done something wrong in your dealings with another person, it's as if there's an infection in your relationship. A good apology is like an antibiotic; a bad apology is like rubbing salt I the wound. ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
467:To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know. No man knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessing for a human being; and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that is is the greatest of evil." (Socrates in The Apology) ~ Plato, #NFDB
468:My mother had told me to never be afraid to apologize when I was wrong. She had said it would have saved her and my father a great deal of trouble if they had only followed that rule. Then she had sighed, and added that I must never think that an apology could completely erase what I had done or said. Still, it was worth trying. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
469:That Lady Russell of steady age and character, and extrememly well provided for,should have no thought of a second marriage needs no apology to the public, which is rather apt to be unreasonalbly discontented when a woman 'does' marry again,than when she does not, but Sir William's continuing in singleness requires explanation. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
470:Isabel observed an etiquette of the telephone: a call before eight in the morning was an emergency; between eight and nine it was an intrusion; thereafter calls could be made until ten in the evening, although anything after nine-thirty required an apology for the disturbance. After ten one was into emergency time again. ~ Alexander McCall Smith, #NFDB
471:Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
472:Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would reword Mr. Bingley’s apology to Jane Bennet, saying, “I’ve been an inexplicable fool,” for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet’s response to Bingley’s marriage proposal: “A thousand times yes. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
473:And we learned, perhaps the hard way, that church isn’t static. It’s not a building, or a denomination, or a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure is made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us. ~ Rachel Held Evans, #NFDB
474:If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two. ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
475:As the philosopher Pamela Hieronymi says, “A past wrong against you, standing in your history without apology, atonement, retribution, punishment, restitution, condemnation, or anything else that might recognize it as a wrong, makes a claim. It says, in effect, that you can be treated in this way, and that such treatment is acceptable ~ Paul Bloom, #NFDB
476:NOw he's back from the dead and he's come looking for her. Maybe he wants to get back together." (Isabelle)
"I doubt he sent a horde of demons to her house because he wants to 'get back together.'" (Alec)
"It wouldn't be my move. First the candy, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order." (Jace) ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
477:Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are the Foundation of all Reasoning, and the only just Bottom on which Men can proceed in convincing one another of the Truth: and by consequence whoever is capable of denying them, is not in a condition to be informed. ~ Anthony Collins, #NFDB
478:But what? But it was just so much easier to deal with the old pain by ignoring it? Forgetting it? Andy's presence meant having to actively work at forgiving him, and that was hard. Forgetting was much easier than forgiving--forgiving was an on-going process that had to continue past the dramatic declarations of apology and absolution. ~ Diana Killian, #NFDB
479:The comb tugged a little too hard, and Win murmured an apology and rubbed the smarting spot with her fingertips. So gently. It made his throat tight and his eyes sting. Deeply disquieted, and bewildered, Kev swallowed back the feeling. He stayed tense but passive beneath her touch. He could hardly breathe for the pleasure she gave him. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
480:According to my mother, the cornerstone of a proper apology is taking responsibility, and the capstone is naming the transgression. Contrition must be felt and conveyed. Finally, apologies are better served plain, hold the rationalizations. In other words, I'm sorry should be followed by a pause or period, not by but and never by you. ~ Kelly Corrigan, #NFDB
481:Jeff Jenks showed up to say he was sorry but not really - some men are incapable of offering a sincere apology, Max realized; something in their nature refuses it, so instead they frame it as an accident, a misunderstanding, or a "sorry you're so upset" sort of thing that placed subtle blame on the other person for making such a big deal. ~ Nick Cutter, #NFDB
482:Some of the key elements of an effective apology include: recognition of the emotional impact of the action on others, an expression of regret, and a commitment not to repeat the negative action. Saying, “I’m sorry that you feel hurt,” is not nearly as powerful as saying, “I’m sorry for my poor behavior and for the hurt it has caused you. ~ Roger Fisher, #NFDB
483:Here’s what’s interesting—especially for those who automatically think, You should feel like a terrible friend! or A little shame will help you keep your act together next time. When we feel shame, we are most likely to protect ourselves by blaming something or someone, rationalizing our lapse, offering a disingenuous apology, or hiding out. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
484:The sea is still tonight, and the decks are silent. "I'm sorry," I tell Mr. Kagawa, meaning it wholeheartedly. He came on this ship to relax, not to relieve the memories that haunt him.
But he waves off my apology, a tense smile crackling over his face. "It's one of the greatest gifts you can give someone, knowing their stories. ~ Emily Skrutskie,#NFDB
485:We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European. ~ Alec Guinness, #NFDB
486:Kenji has a hand pressed to his mouth, desperately trying to suppress a smile. He’s shaking his head, holding up a hand in apology. And then he breaks, laughing out loud, snorting as he tries to muffle the sound. “I’m sorry,” he says, pressing his lips together, shaking his head again. “This is not a funny moment. It’s not. I’m not laughing ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
487:I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures. There's no reason to abide by them. I don't have any vested interest in it. ~ Raymond Pettibon, #NFDB
488:What’s this?”
“An apology, of sorts.”
I made a moue, but slipped the lid from the top . . . and then my breath left me.
Inside the box sat a baseball, its well-worn white leather marked by the signatures of every Cubs player from the team. It was just like the one I’d had—just like the one I’d told him about the night we made love. ~ Chloe Neill,#NFDB
489:Neither of us looking for an apology, or to be proven right at the other's expense. No anxiety to make it better than it was, no yearning towards something more. No dramatic conclusion at all. Just an array of loose ends, wrapped in a bundle of memories, all tied together with a sinew of regret - regret that we could both ultimately live with. ~ Ron Currie Jr, #NFDB
490:grace. What a gift she gave me. Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release. Anastasia gave me a huge gift. That e-mail changed me. It rearranged my molecules. She has lived a life of struggle and decided not to pick up the armor. She teaches me about ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
491:[…] But you doona plan to deprive Bowen and me of a fight?"
Garreth had answered, "So as to no' piss off a vampire queen and the most powerful witch ever to live? Oh, aye."
"What are you planning?"
"Steal the arrow from Lousha, sneak off, shoot the god. Then I'll come back with a present and an apology, promising she can shoot the next god. ~ Kresley Cole,#NFDB
492:Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
493:You have nothing to be sorry for, sister. Those things aren’t a reason for an apology—they’re reasons for gratitude, celebration, and praise. Hold your head high. Keep that joy in your heart. Let your light shine. It’s the proper response to what God has done (and is doing) through you. And if anyone tells you to tone it down—they can take it up with him. ~ Holley Gerth, #NFDB
494:He was a rogue agent, acting without my prince’s sanction. Also, we wrote a letter of apology. Don’t know what else you want from us.” “That’s funny,” I said. “I didn’t get one. Did you send it to my old apartment? That must be why. See, it burned down while I was protecting that asshole from the Redemption Choir.” “I’ll see that you get a copy,” Royce said. ~ Craig Schaefer, #NFDB
495:Has he apologized?” “In the way that he apologizes. ‘I would do anything to protect you,’” I said, in a pretty good imitation. Mallory nodded. “He gave you an alphapology.” “What now?” “An alphapology. The apology made by the alpha male, which isn’t really an apology, but more a reason for insane behavior. Catcher does it all the damn time. Drives me up the wall. ~ Chloe Neill, #NFDB
496:My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
497:William Carlos Williams? “This Is Just to Say”—yes, Dabney had always loved that poem. In the years of Agnes’s growing up, a copy of the poem had been taped to the refrigerator door. It was an apology poem—forgive me, they were delicious, so sweet and so cold. Box was holding out the plum and a bottle of chilled Perrier with a silly grin on his face. Celerie ~ Elin Hilderbrand, #NFDB
498:the soul of the animal, as I’ve read that Native Americans do. It strikes me as a form of grace. Saying grace. Or just being grace. I am still on the Navajo Nation, wishing Navajo grace traveled with me on this land, or that Everett had packed some with my dried beef. But I don’t go so far as to complete the ritual. I say a word or two of apology out loud, ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde, #NFDB
499:But then the Hispanic guy spoke. Maybe a heartfelt statement, full of apology and contrition, full of promises of future reform, and likely polite, and certainly short, but apparently there was something in it the fat man wanted to either rebut or comment on further, because he settled back down, amid much asynchronous wobbling and shaking, and he started talking again. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
500:Last but not least, he hated with all the hatred that was in him the rising generation, the appalling boors who find it necessary to talk and laugh at the top of their voices in restaurants and cafes, who jostle you in the street without a word of apology, and who, without expressing or even indicating regret, drive the wheels of a baby-carriage into your legs. ~ Joris Karl Huysmans, #NFDB
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9 Philosophy
3 Occultism
3 Integral Yoga
2 Psychology
1 Christianity
8 Plato
3 Sri Aurobindo
3 Aleister Crowley
2 Saint John of Climacus
2 Nolini Kanta Gupta
2 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
2 Magick Without Tears