A Quotes
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“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.”
“An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.”
“An apology informed is good; an apology performed is better.”
Source: Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust
“An apology is a defense, and there is no higher calling than to defend one's faith, especially from ignorance and hate.”
Source: No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
“An apology is a simple thing. A few easy words which we hope will correct for our regrettable actions. If accepted, however, an apology is of little worth. It indicates a momentary change of heart. Though not always a lasting one.”
Source: Warblade: Especies en Peligro
“An apology is also an admission of guilt”
Source: Notes from No Man's Land
“An apology is such an expression that shows not only greatness and insight, but it also protects you from breaking family ties and friendly contacts.”
“An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.”
“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.”
“An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.”
“An apology with a 'but' is just a sophisticated way of lying to yourself; the truth doesn't need a sidecar of excuses.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology”
Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel
“An apology without accountability is just another act in a play that never ends.”
Source: In the Spaces We Don't Talk About: A Companion For the Upspoken Truth We Carry
“An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.”
“An apostle does not just set up an ‘empire of churches’ over which he reigns and from which he receives glory and honor. Instead, the charge of all the local churches that God gives him becomes a gut-wrenching, intensely emotional, heartfelt, passionate ministry of life to precious souls! It is an awesome responsibility. It is not an arms-length transaction. The apostle must feel the very heart-beat, the pulse of the church, and be in touch with the lives of its people.”
Source: Apostles and the Emerging Apostolic Movement
“An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.”
“An “apostle” [is] one who is called and sent by Christ to have the spiritual authority, character, gifts and abilities to successfully reach and establish people in Kingdom truth and order, especially through founding and overseeing local churches.”
Source: Apostles and the Emerging Apostolic Movement
“An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.”
“An apothecary should never be out of spirits.”
Source: The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch
“An appalling double tragedy overshadowed the joy that should have welcomed Alice Lee Roosevelt's entrance to the world on February 12, 1884. The popular, young New York assemblyman Theodore Roosevelt lost both his beautiful wife, Alice Hathaway Lee, and his beloved mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, on Valentine's Day 1884. He gave the infant her mother's name, a wet nurse, a temporary home, and then relegated her to an afterthought. The family turned in upon itself, lost in grief at the sudden and unexpected deaths, too heartbroken to celebrate Alice's birth. It was the last time anything would eclipse Alice Roosevelt.”
Source: Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
“An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity”
Source: Piano sonata no. 2:
“An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the dead options. Only then, that is, by the action of Will, good results in good and evil in evil.”
“An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.”
“An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.”
“An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.”
“An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.”
Source: Literary and political addresses
“An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.”
“An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.”
Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
“An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand.”
Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man: & A Last Diary
“An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.”
“An apple a day keeps anyone away, if you throw it hard enough.”
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.' But eating too many, is quite enough-plenty. And you'll have to go see the good doc anyway.”
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away unless you ingest lot of apple seeds, which may make you run to the doctor.”
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes
“An apple a day might have kept the doctor away prior to the industrialization of food growing and
preparation. But, according to research compiled by the United States Drug Administration (USDA) today’s apple contains residue of eleven different neurotoxins—azinphos, methyl chloripyrifos, diazinon, dimethoate, ethion, omthoate, parathion, parathion methyl, phosalone, and phosmet — and the USDA was testing for only one category of chemicals known as organophosphate insecticides. That doesn’t sound too appetizing does it? The average apple is sprayed with pesticides seventeen times before it is harvested.”
Source: The Brain Wash: A Powerful, All-Natural Program to Protect Your Brain Against Alzheimer's, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Parkinson's, and Other Diseases
“An apple a day will keep the pimples away!”
“An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.”
“An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.”
Source: Trilby
“An apple never fell on my head but I am not devoid of telling you new things!
You refused to hire me as your problem solver so I’m going to turn you into a reusable toothpick!
Poem: A Resourceful Medium.
December 11, 2022.”
Source: EvolutionR
“An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that's similar to it in some ways, but quite different than others.”
Source: The Orchard: A Novel
“An apple tree will not wish for pears simply because that wish is held for a different kind of tree. But what it can wish for is fruit that is so perfect that it causes the pear tree to wish the same for its fruit.”
“An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.”
“An appreciating heart radiates happiness
Gratitude fills your life with bliss and joyfulness.”
“An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense.”
“An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.”
“An Appreciation of the Udder by Stewart Stafford
Abe Lincoln borrowed Mabel Brown's bra,
The bustiest gal in the county by far,
Stretched it right back as far it would go,
Launched himself up, a skyrocketing crow.
He soared up so high, he couldn't believe it,
Saw an aerial shot of Mabel's mighty cleavage,
Birds wondered about the youthful intruder,
Touched the dark rim of space, no blue there.
Gravity tapped Honest Abe on the shoulder,
He fell back to earth like a tumbling boulder,
Broke his rapid fall by grabbing onto a tree,
Exhilarated at the thought of skyward liberty.
© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
“An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.”
Source: Essays in Idleness
“An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation.”