Kelley Armstrong Quotes

If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

An apology offered and, equally important, received is a step towards reconciliation and, sometimes, recompense. Without that process, hurts can rankle and fester and erupt into their own hatreds and wrongdoings.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

I think I deserve an apology.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

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

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

I believe that things should be let go once they are discussed. Apology accepted. End of story.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.

It's important to mend ties after a fight.

Never let anyone go home feeling bad at night. You can bark away during the day, but you must always put that right.

There will never be a reunion, as I will never do anything with an asshole like Will Smith. He is still an egomaniac and has not grown up. This constant reunion thing will never ever happen in my lifetime unless there is an apology, which he doesn't know the word.

Apologies are seldom of any use.

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

You say: 'Oh, please forgive' You say: 'Oh, live and let live.' But sorry doesn't help us. Sorry will not save us. Sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway). Sorry doesn't help us. Sorry won't protect us. Sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong.

Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.

The best way to have the last word is to apologize.

Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.

Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows.

I was reminded as I was reviewing my life, that I have been in too many conflicts, too many wars, political battles, military battles, civil strifes in government. And always one lesson stands out and that is, those whom you fight most passionately often turn out to be your best friends.

How I wish that all men and women of good will would look to the Cross if only for a moment! There, we can see God’s reply: violence is not answered with violence, death is not answered with the language of death. In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue, and peace is spoken.