Excuse Quotes

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.

Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.

There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends.

More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.

We have to get rid of excuses, no matter why you are the way you are, don't let it be an excuse to stay that way.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.

There's no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.

Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.

She [my wife] has had a Caesarean, so she can't bend over. It's a good excuse [for not changing nappies], I suppose.

Don't give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

The end excuses any evil.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.

Tell the President to stand up to our enemies, not cower to them or make excuses for them!

Dont try to excuse yourself by saying you're doing it for someone else's sake. - Break

The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.

Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

I think to trust in the sovereignty of God does not excuse my personal responsibility. Just the opposite - it equips me to be personally responsible.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

Excuses excuse us from fulfilling our potential.

No excuses. No explanations.