Odette Annable Quotes

We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.

A great thing of getting older is coming to terms and saying sorry and trying to repair damage that happened in the past.

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

The films of which I'm most proud I've written are the ones that pivot on forgiveness.

I learned a long time ago that you need to bury the hatchet. No need to hold grudges. That only weighs you down.

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

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.

Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.

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

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I have to make things right with Tiger first before anything else.

Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).

I just hope everybody forgives me for whatever I did wrong. And hope they remember some of what I did right.

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.