No Excuse Quotes

My past was a private obstacle, not a public excuse.

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

Drinking goes with everything, there's always an excuse to drink. We sell beer and liquor 24/7/365 everywhere, you can buy a 5th of vodka at 3am on Easter Sunday if you want.

I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.

Inspiration is an excuse for doing something you already want to do.

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.

excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.

Since when does a queen need an excuse to sing?

It's just a big excuse to say awful things.

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it is. It's early in the spring. A lot of guys are not as (locked-in) as they could be.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.

Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow

The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.

I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.

How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

I would say that clothes are an excuse for living in the world.

We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.

If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques.

Do tell. It might be entertaining to see who gets to you first.” “Excuse me if entertaining you isn’t at the top of my agenda.

Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.

Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.

I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

Bad news is just an excuse.

Excuse me you're a hell of a guy You know I really got a thing for American guys

We love getting dressed up - and this is a great excuse for a party.

Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out.

Englishmen do like to get in a dress, any excuse.

The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.

A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

If an opportunity arises, then I won't use school as an excuse not to work.

That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.

Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

These last years are as important as any that have gone before, nor will any other of our years vitiate or excuse them. The struggle continues.

Cassandra, when you want to speak to me, you should say 'Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson.' Then wait until you get my attention." "Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson. Do I have your attention now?

Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special.