Quotes with apology

  • 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.

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  • Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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 Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Adnan Pachachi An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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  • Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Baroness Orczy An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
    Baroness Orczy
     
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Anthony Weiner I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau 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
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Burt Bacharach If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Archibald Alexander It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Jim Rohn Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel 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-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Red Auerbach The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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