Apology Quotes - Page 19

She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

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.

Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses. If he now pursues the President of the United States, who, however flawed his apology was, came out and invoked God, family, his daughter, a political conspiracy and everything but the kitchen sink, would not there be some sort of comparison to a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr?

I’d never known that anyone could kiss in English, kiss in apologies.

To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community and apology for a disgusting and despicable smear campaign.

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror

One of the challenges of the movie is there are no apologies or excuses.

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.

Apology is not for the faint of heart, but then, neither is life.

We rarely wrestle with apology and lose.

One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong and disgraceful. It behooves us to consider if future geenrations will similarly regard the aims we most defend today.

When we apologize we end our struggle with history.

Apology may start as a feeling, a desire to make matters right, but it requires a commitment to move that desire into practice, to actually take on the great courageous task of showing compassion to others.

Apology calls for a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the wronged party and the inherent value of the relationship, not for what it brings to you but for what you can bring to it.

No apology is equal to the task set before it.

"I would like to apologize" may sound like an apology, but it is no more an actual apology than saying "I would like to lose weight" makes you suddenly slimmer.

An apology informed is good; an apology performed is better.

The purpose of apology is to extend ourselves in such a way that relationships become deeper, and life becomes richer and more human in the process.

We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice.

Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right.

You can't talk your way out of a situation you acted you way into.

Accepting the apology signals the acknowledgment of a need to move forward, but not necessarily together.

When I accept an apology it means that the part in me that honors our relationship honors the part in you that honors our relationship.