Apologizing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.
-- Alan Hollinghurst -
I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended.
-- Amy Pascal -
In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all.
-- Andrew Ross Sorkin -
I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything.
-- Antonio Davis -
I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do.
-- April Winchell -
I ain't apologizing for anything, especially if it's a joke.
-- Artie Lange -
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.
-- Bella Abzug -
I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.
-- Benjamin Day -
I would admit Im an introvert. I dont know why introverts have to apologize.
-- Bill Gross -
I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.
-- Billy Carter -
Talk about your failures without apologizing.
-- Brené Brown -
I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great
-- Carlos Mencia -
The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.
-- Cher -
There's no point apologizing about where you come from.
-- Colin Greenwood -
I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.
-- Daniel Tosh -
Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral.
-- Demetri Martin -
Everybody knows I'm impatient. I don't have to apologize for it. I'm too old for that.
-- Dennis Green -
I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.
-- Dizzy Gillespie -
Sometimes I apologize. It started that way and we never did change it.
-- Douglas Engelbart -
I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.
-- Eliot Spitzer -
To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.
-- Eliot Spitzer -
I really believe it's time for some of us to stop apologizing for God and start apologizing to Him for being embarrassed by the ways He has chosen to reveal Himself
-- Francis Chan -
Free yourself. Live your life. Stop apologizing for who you are.
-- Garret John LoPorto -
You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either
-- Gene Stallings -
In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman.
-- Georgette Mosbacher -
Never apologize for your success because you worked hard for it,
-- Goldie Hawn -
It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.
-- Grace Hopper -
I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.
-- Griffin Dunne -
Never apologize, it's all part of the trick.
-- Harry Lorayne -
This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, demanded even more than that.
-- J. Courtney Sullivan -
If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
-- Jackie Mason -
I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
-- James P. Hoffa -
Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.
-- Janet Fitch -
MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended -- including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.
-- Janet Jackson -
You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.
-- Jeff Ross -
Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.
-- Jennifer Armintrout -
I'm not apologizing for what I did. I'm apologizing for what I didn't do.
-- Jennifer Tilly -
I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.
-- Jerome Corsi -
You should never, ever apologize for anything that makes you happy.
-- Jessie J -
It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.
-- Jim Bouton -
Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)
-- John Arbuthnot -
Never apologize for being nerdy, because un-nerdy people never apologize for being assholes.
-- John Barrowman -
The best way to have the last word is to apologize.
-- Joyce Meyer -
No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize,
-- Julia Child -
I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.
-- Kara Lindsay -
I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.
-- Kathy Griffin -
I can say whatever I want. So do not bring the kids. It's definitely rated R.
-- Kathy Griffin -
I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.
-- Kevin Dillon -
President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it.
-- Kevin Madden -
I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself.
-- Kevin Shelley -
I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate.
-- Kinky Friedman -
She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither.
-- Kristin Cashore -
I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.
-- Kyan Douglas -
I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people,
-- Lance Armstrong -
When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.
-- LeAnn Rimes -
I won’t apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience.†“From all indications, you’ve acquired enough for ten men.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party.
-- Lisa Kudrow -
I will never apologize to the Jewish community for telling the truth
-- Louis Farrakhan -
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.
-- Lynndie England -
Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.
-- Marianne Faithfull -
It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time,
-- Mark Hoppus -
You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.
-- Matthew Tobin Anderson -
Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.
-- Meg Cabot -
I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.
-- Michael Thomas Ford -
You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.
-- Neal Shusterman -
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
-- Nellie L. McClung -
I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would.
-- Nicole Richie -
I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.
-- Osman Baydemir -
I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.
-- Peter Arnett -
I just want to apologize in advance that I don’t have enough subpoenas for all of you.
-- Preet Bharara -
I made a horrendous mistake not apologizing to my wife
-- Ray Rice -
I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.
-- Ray Romano -
As an American, I'd like to apologize - for everything.
-- Rich Hall -
After everything I've been through, the last thing I'm going to apologize for is my paranoia
-- Richard Finney -
We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.
-- Rick Perry -
We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.
-- Rick Perry -
What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.
-- Rick Riordan -
I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
-- Robert Plant -
He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.
-- Robin McKinley -
Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own.
-- Ruth Whitman -
Form and content must never apologize for each other.
-- Scott McCloud -
Do what you think is right and apologize later.
-- Scott Wilson -
If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
-- Sidney Poitier -
It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.
-- Swoosie Kurtz -
A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.
-- Terry Brooks -
The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work ... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.
-- Terry Gilliam -
I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
-- Thomas Harris
