Andrew Clements Quotes

It was never my intention to hurt people's feelings.

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate

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.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.

I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself.

I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

I am aware that I have caused you pain and anguish, but I think you will allow me to take my decision.

There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry.

That's all that counts. People being sorry. Makes you feel better; gives you a sense of dignity, and that's all that's important; a sense of dignity. And it doesn't matter if you don't care or not, either. You got to have a sense of dignity, even if you don't care, 'cause, if you don't have that, civilization's doomed.

Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong.

If I could reach down in my heart, I would say I'm sorry for every unkind word and thought I ever had.

My ten-year-old daughter loves gifts. She loves to give them and she loves to get them. She loves to give them when she's hurt her parents' feelings, and she loves to get them when her parents have hurt hers.

We never want to go out there and hurt each other, so when it happens, it's emotional.

Age is full of regrets and most of them are about treating people unkindly.

We know that we've done and said things that hurt people. Inflicting pain on others wasn't the goal, but it was one of the outcomes. We wish it weren't so, and regret that hurt.

I have found that when I have attacked people personally, that's been a stupid mistake on my part. And so whoever I have attacked personally I apologize for.

I definitely regret hurting people.

I learned about forgiveness, and I've reached out to others to make amends.

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of the things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm...very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families.

No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.