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.
We rarely wrestle with apology and lose.
I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
Nothing heals the soul like chocolate. . . It's God's apology for broccoli.
The best way to have the last word is to apologize.
I lied to you about a lot of things. . . . but I meant every apology.
Excuse me, pray. " Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.
I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything.
Apologies are not passfail.
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.
Abuse is always wrong. Some try to excuse it. Most perpetrators have a sense of entitlement, thinking their actions are justified. Ironically, their victims may also believe they deserve to be mistreated. Some will even defend their abuser, citing his or her earnest apologies afterward. But abuse in any form, for any reason, wounds both spouses. It's always sinful, and few things destroy trust in a marriage as quickly. Regardless of childhood pain or marital conflict, mature spouses learn to set limits so anger doesn't become abuse by frequency, degree, or duration.
The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion.
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.
The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.
My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.
I'm sorry you're angry is not an apology.
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.
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.
Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.
Moving between her thighs, he stretched out above her, then thrust into her. Once. Because, as he did everything, he acted without hesitation or apology to claim her entirely. Her eyes went wide and her breath caught. Holding her gaze, he pressed himself deeper, barely easing back before pressing deep again.