“Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families”
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright
Source: The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way
“Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families”
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright
“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
Jay McInerney (1955) American writer
Source: The Last of the Savages
Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Part 1, Chapter 13; sometimes paraphrased: "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)
“You can’t apologize your way into people’s hearts … You have to go full force.”
St. Vincent (musician) (1982) American singer-songwriter
"Friendly, and Just a Bit Creepy: St. Vincent Defies Categories" in The New York Times (7 May 2009) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/arts/music/07vince.html?_r=1&ref=arts&pagewanted=all <br class="br">Context: I think anyone who is creative or self-aware in any way, there’s like a humility to it, or I should say a humiliation to it. But there’s also a self-delusion — the provisional ego, as my uncle would call it. The self-delusion is the thing that makes you go, oh you know what, all the music that I’ve ever loved in the world, I want to be a part of that — hey, listen to what I have to say, it’s really important, it’s going to matter.”<br>You can’t apologize your way into people’s hearts... You have to go full force.