Apology Quotes

• 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 Black Flag
  • World
  • Art
  • Attention

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

  

  Chuck Grassley
  • Japanese
  • Suicide
  • Apology

• DR JAMES DOBSON: No apology.

  

  James Dobson
  • Apology

• 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
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• On behalf of everyone at the DNC, we want to offer a deep and sincere apology to Senator Sanders, his supporters, and the entire Democratic party for the inexcusable remarks made over email. These comments do not reflect the values of the DNC or our steadfast commitment to neutrality during the nominating process.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Party
  • Deep
  • Commitment

• "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
  • People
  • Long
  • Dark

• I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique.

  

  George Michael
  • Believe
  • True
  • Supportive

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

  

  Nancy Chodorow
  • Long
  • Self
  • Apology

• For many women, and a fair number of men, saying 'I'm sorry' isn't literally an apology; it's a ritual way of restoring balance to a conversation.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Balance

• 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
  • Men
  • May
  • Apology

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

  

  Jay Leno
  • God
  • Apology

• I don't know if there is redemption for people like Charlie Rose or Garrison Keillor. An apology helps, but what really matter are deeds.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • People
  • Rose
  • Apology

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

  

  Colin Firth
  • Singing
  • Apology

• I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Live
  • May

• 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
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Language

• 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
  • People
  • Children
  • True

• I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Apology

• 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
  • Daughter
  • Sorry
  • Apology

• Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Opportunity
  • Memorial

• 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
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Choice

• The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.

  

  William James
  • Important
  • Science
  • Unique

• Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Apology
  • Indifference
  • Wheat

• There is nothing more pathetic than asking for an apology.

  

  Nisio Isin
  • Asking
  • Apology
  • Pathetic

• I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

  

  William Whipple
  • Long
  • Sorry
  • Gentleman

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