I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.
Tris," Tobias says, crouching next to me. His face is pale, almost yellow. There is too much I want to say. The first thing that comes out is, "Beatrice. " He laughs weakly. "Beatrice," he amends, and touches his lips to mine. I curl my fingers into his shirt.
Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.
There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the language of the soul. . . . Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.
So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.
Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.
Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.
I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend.
She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.
Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.
I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.
As long as you live, it is never too late to make amends. Take my advice, child. Don't waste your precious life with regrets and sorrow. Find a way to make right what was wrong, and then move on.
I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends.
