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Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.
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.
I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values.
Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
I don't see the point in apologizing to someone who remains angry enough to throw me off a cliff...unless we are standing by a cliff.
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.
Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.
A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.
For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.
I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.
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.
In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the "romance of possibility".
Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.
More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.
I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies.
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
I've heard attacks were made on coalition forces because of those. I apologize to the families of those who lost loved ones or were injured because of the photos.
Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?
No apology is equal to the task set before it.
The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.
Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.
When your woman gives you the silent treatment, say you're sorry, or you'll find out how truly sorry you are when her monologue resumes.
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.
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.
When we apologize we end our struggle with history.
Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.
Apology may be scorned, but it retains its inherent value.
But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.
I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.
Apology is the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves.
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
Apology is not for the faint of heart, but then, neither is life.
It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
You can't talk your way out of a situation you acted you way into.
We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice.
An effective apology focuses more on compassion for the victim than redemption for the offender.
An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?"
You don't have to see eye-to-eye to walk hand-in-hand. You just have to want to go in the same direction.
Accepting the apology signals the acknowledgment of a need to move forward, but not necessarily together.
Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth.
Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right.
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.
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.
Apologies have more power than most of us realize to restore strained relationships, free us from vengeful impulses, and create possibilities for growth.
"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.