No Excuse Quotes

The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.

People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.

Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.

I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.

All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.

The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope - an ideology of hate - excuse me - with an ideology of hope.

Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope.

Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

There’s no excuse…for women today not to own their own power and lead an unlimited life.

Make time, not excuses.

An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.

Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.

I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.

If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.

Each individual has a responsibility to get out of bed, learn their ABCs, learn your math tables, not use race and racism as an excuse.

There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.

There is no fate... no predestination... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.

many people talk about love, to seek excuses, no one is forced to lie

The best excuse is to have none.

[...]you know what they say about messengers, right"? Excuse me?" Too much bad news will get you shot."[...]

It was never my intention to cause you pain. Whether you feel strongly or very little, that does not excuse thoughtless behavior." - Adam

Faith is the fool's excuse.

They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence ... to productivity. And they're happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other.

There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks.

I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away."

Don't let your excuses stand in the way of achieving your dreams

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

Losses are inevitable, but excuses are optional.

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

Trying simply provides an excuse for not doing.

One of the challenges of the movie is there are no apologies or excuses.

Now that we have the line-item veto there is no excuse for Congress to put pork in and no reason for the president not to line-item veto it out.

There is no excuse for not catching a ball you can get to.

The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.

You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other?

The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

There are reasons, and then there are excuses.

I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

Don't accept the excuse of complexity.

Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.