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“We owe the animals our profoundest apologies. Defenseless and unable to retaliate, they have suffered immense agonies under our domination that most of us have never witnessed or acknowledged. Now knowing better, we can act better, and acting better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children, and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.”

Giving Children Reason Animal Acting Knowing Our Children Celebration Apology Immense Agony Domination Defenseless Knowing Better

Book:The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony

Source: The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony

“In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful." The press was busy printing money.”

Presses Busy Making Money Apology Printed Printing Franklin Pennsylvania Printer Plentiful Printing Money

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The continual whine of lamenting the burden of taxes, however successfully it may be practiced in mixed governments, is inconsistent with the sense and spirit of a republic. If taxes are necessary, they are of course advantageous, but if they require an apology, the apology itself implies an impeachment. Why, then, is man imposed upon, or why does he impose upon himself?”

Ifs Men May Doe Government Spirit Courses Taxes Burden Republic Apology Inconsistent Impeachment

Book:The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...

Source: The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...

“Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.”

Trying Looks Heart Eye Past Father Heard Understood Decades Apology Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:Patti Davis

“If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.”

Ifs Promise Excuse Apology

Author:Evan Esar

“I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.”

Art Television Architecture Restaurants Cake Apology Jane Conceptual Art

Author:Will Self

“Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of mathematical training, Mathematics without Apologies brings us into contemporary mathematics as a living, active inquiry by real people. Anyone wanting a varied, cultured, and penetrating view of today's mathematics could find no better place to engage.”

People Book Real Today Views Numbers Practice Theory Training Mathematics Prepared Active Contemporary Mathematical Apology Autobiography Sociology Better Place Inquiry Invitations Patches

Author:Peter Galison

“We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.”

Thinking Men Needs Numbers Apology Sooner Or Later Concessions

Book:Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

“I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.”

Men May Turns Profession Violent Apology Assertion

Book:The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset (Unabridged): Collection of six historical novels dealing with politics and romance - Classics of English literature from the author of The Eustace Diamonds, He Knew He Was Right and The Prime Minister

Source: The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset (Unabridged): Collection of six historical novels dealing with politics and romance - Classics of English literature from the author of The Eustace Diamonds, He Knew He Was Right and The Prime Minister

“Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.”

Self Miles Indifference Apology Wheat

Author:Mordecai Richler

“I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.”

Writing Age Found Language Sky Forests Paradise Maps Apology Shelley Wordsworth

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Listen I don't expect an apology from men like Chuck Schumer, and I would put him and other individuals who were attacking me at the top of the list contributing to the low, low public perception of Congress, the integrity of Congress quite frankly.”

Men Political Individual Justice Kings Integrity Perception Lows Criticism Management Climate Congress Lists Department Apology Attacking Contributing Chuck

Author:Alberto Gonzales

“Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.”

Socialism Fantastic Apology Ownership

Author:Michael Foot

“If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.”

Ifs Way Natural Written Example Students Seasons England Fruit Companion Apology Pale Desks Better Place Scholarship Rifles New England Saddles Oar

Book:Letters of Francis Parkman

Source: Letters of Francis Parkman

“I think I deserve an apology.”

Thinking Deserve Apology

Author:Dana Perino

“I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.”

Firsts Thirds Absolutes Criminals Innocence Apology

Book:The Dying Earth

Source: The Dying Earth

“What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care, or the actual need some have for an apology from an entity so evil that he would toy with the lives of millions as though they were insects and he God? This is hard to tell.”

Needs Ideas Hard Care Evil Millions Health Care Deceit Apology Toys Entity Apologizing Insects Obscene Hubris

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.”

Writing Facts Race Crime Explanation Territory Apology Stereotype Treacherous Generalization New Territory

Author:Colin Flaherty

“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.”

World Action Past Regret Offers Evidence Apology Right Action

Book:The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Source: The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

“We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.”

Men Want Eye Age White Slave Males Expected Fake Empires Owners Apology Apologizing Builder Descendants Heretic Slave Owners

Author:Alec Guinness

“The bond of family blesses us with an immeasurable power. But we also must accept what comes with it. It gives us a responsibility to love without condition, without apology. We can never waver from the power of that bond, even if it's tested. The bond nourishes us, gives us strength. Without that power, we are nothing.”

Ifs Giving Responsibility Accepting Conditions Bless Apology Tested

Author:Elijah

“I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.”

Author:Fiona Apple

“Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?”

Children War Order Dies Peace Voice Heard Paper Burning Apology Good Friend Fracture

Author:Daniel Berrigan

“In his apology, Arnold Schwarzenegger said he was sorry to the women that he groped, and he admitted that he had acted badly. Not only that, Arnold then apologized for acting badly in all of his movies.”

Said Acting Sorry Apology Schwarzenegger Acting Badly

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.”

Book Conversation Letters Apology Layers Spoken Word Love Letter

Book:The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Source: The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

“Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.”

Thinking Want Tables Silent Get Up Stomach Apology Pigs Inward

Author:Coco Chanel

“The etiquette business has its emergencies, heaven knows, but it is in the nature of etiquette emergencies that once one realizes what one has done, it is too late. One might as well get a good night's sleep and send flowers with an apology in the morning.”

Knows Wells Done Might Night Heaven Realizing Sleep Morning Flower Late Too Late Apology Emergencies Etiquette Good Night

Author:Judith Martin

“I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.”

Art Apology Procrastination Sooner Or Later Invisibility Evasion Procrastinator

Book:Works

Source: Works

“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.”

Way Written Example Humble Irony Apology

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.”

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author

“Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces.”

Faces Makeup Apology Cosmetics Wearing Makeup

Author:Cynthia Heimel

“I drew a vicious cartoon of an Islamic extremist as a dog, knowing full well what an insult that was is in the Islamic world. Furthermore, I added an apology to dogs everywhere (being a dog lover myself).”

World Wells Knowing Dog Lovers Islamic Insult Apology Cartoon Vicious Extremist Dog Lover Islamic Extremists

Author:Terry Mosher

“I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.”

Thinking World Writing Letters Filled Apology

Book:Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection

Source: Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection

“Violets are God's apology for February.”

Apology Violet February

Book:Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around

Source: Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around

“The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.”

May Has Beens Said Literature Born Judgment Mouths Apology English Literature Irishmen

Book:Labour in Irish History

Source: Labour in Irish History

“Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.”

World Doe Spirit Existence Nice Brother Materials Forgotten Painful Illness Comic Necks Apology Infatuation Referring Sufferers Provocation Malady Vicinity

Book:Three Cases for Mr. Campion

Source: Three Cases for Mr. Campion

“Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.”

People Ifs Born Husband Behavior Blame Raised Treated Live Life Fancy Apology Unattractive Born And Raised Earn Respect

Author:Germaine Greer

“I have a no-apology policy.”

Author:Kathy Griffin

“I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone it's a joke!”

Real Mistake Stage Policy Jokes Ridiculous Real Life Making Mistakes Apology Apologizing Microphones I Make Mistakes I Apologize Ridiculous Things

Author:Kathy Griffin

“The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins.”

Social Sin Ready Apology Multitudes

Author:Humphry Davy

“Apologies; our cultural obsession with them isn't about actually being offended, or simply needing to hear, “I'm sorry.” It's not really about right or wrong. It's about wanting to throw a rock in the dark and hear something break.”

Dark Break Rocks Sorry Obsession Apology I'm Sorry Offended

Author:Jim Norton

“I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.”

Heart Choices Felt Heard Offers Disappointment Odd Apology Casting Misguided Heart Felt

Author:Cameron Crowe

“I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath”

Humans Water Depth Swim Apology Stirring

Author:John J. Geddes

“My worst job was packing animal feed in a warehouse in Gloucestershire when I was a student. It was a very strange environment. It was hung heavy with oat dust, the place was infested with mice, and everyone who worked there was over 60, and I was 18. It was crazy. Apologies to anyone who works in animal-feed packing industry and loves it.”

Jobs Animal Environment Crazy Worst Students Strange Industry And Love Heavy Dust Apology Hung Mice Packing Warehouse

Author:Simon Pegg

“One of the challenges of the movie is there are no apologies or excuses.”

Challenges Excuse Apology

Author:John Landis

“President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that -- Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore.”

Should Care President Imagine Stupid Should Have Strategy Apology Imagine That Apologizing President Bush Stumbling Stupid Things No One Cares

Author:Jay Leno

“It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.”

World Mind Littles Problem Failing Mines Theory Ought Silly Apology Delightful Apologising

Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.”

Art Poetry Speak Connections Musical Apology Verses Formal

Author:Dana Gioia

“We can not communicate with the Lord if we do not communicate with each other. If we want to present ourselves to him, we must take a step towards meeting one another. To do this we must learn the great lesson of forgiveness: we must not let the gnawings of resentment work in our soul but must open our hearts to the magnanimity of listening to others, open our hearts to understanding them, eventually to accepting their apologies, to generously offering our own.”

Ifs Want Heart Soul Understanding Accepting Lord Steps Listening Lessons Meetings Communicate Offering Resentment Apology Can Not Listening To Others Magnanimity

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“I came into business to make money, I make no apology for that. I wanted to make a lot of money but after the first £50million or £100million, it became less about making money and more about having fun.”

Firsts Wanted Fun Making Money Having Fun Apology Lots Of Money

Author:Michael O'Leary