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apology

«Friends are God's apology for relations.»
«An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.»
Author: Robin Quivers | Keywords: apology
«'It is destiny' phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny»
«If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology»
«An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.»
«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.»
«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.»
«Apology is only egotism wrong side out.»
«An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: God | Keywords: apologies, apology, remembered, the books
«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.»

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