Jayson Blair Quotes

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

I apologized for my mistakes.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.

It's very hard for me to say I'm sorry... but I do.

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

I've got some repenting to do.

I apologise to people when I need to.

I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.

When I say, 'I'm sorry,' it's because I regret something.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do.

I here ask pardon of all my compatriots for everything of which I have been guilty towards them. I know that, by my ill-considered and immature works, I have brought distress to many and that I have even provoked others to attack me openly and, in general, have produced displeasure in many.

It's never easy to say you're sorry.

PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.

But my apology was a thousand apologies.

Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.

There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.

I will be asking for forgiveness, but hopefully I won't have to be asking for much forgiveness.