No Excuse Quotes

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid.

Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls.

Excuse my French, everybody in America, but I am pissed.

I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.

Genius does not excuse evil.

Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me?

Beneath the excuse lies your destiny.

I don't see any possible excuse for any driver anywhere to endanger people.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.

Slow, steady progress is better than fast, daily excuses.

An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.

The more you stop giving power to your excuses, the more you'll send power to your dreams.

Beneath every excuse lies a fear. Practice being fearless.

I fear that by gaining a limit, we'll lose an excuse.

I thought 'How can I stop playing or give myself an excuse to stop playing? So I snapped my cue on Friday. It was quite fun doing it. It's gone.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

It's amazing as women how many excuses we make when a guy doesn't call or text. It's unbelievable.

With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

I don't wear bright orange clothes or leopard skin boots, but it was really good fun to play someone that does and have an excuse too!

How do you forget that someone else is another person? No matter who they are. I don't think that's an excuse.

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

You could have said ‘Excuse me.’ (Zarek) I’m not talking to you. (Astrid) Love you, too, babe. (Zarek) You really are an animal, aren’t you? (Astrid) Woof, woof. (Zarek)

Is this just what you do? You start to get involved, get scared when the emotions are too much, and then dream up any excuse you can to run? Or to invite the other person to dump you?

Islam is not an excuse for thwarting democracy.

I have never agreed with President Bush's argument regarding the axis of evil. Unfortunately, fundamentalists in Iran have used this as an excuse to brand us as allies of Mr. Bush.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn't a good side. There isn't an excuse. (Mom - to Lara Lington)

Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet.

It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should expect mind altered behaviour from the public.

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit.

I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.

Waiting for my real life to start is no excuse to waste the life I have right now.

My hair is so scary that if you saw it walking down the street, you'd cross to the other side. This humidity is not helping. It's just an excuse for my hair to let its frizz flag fly.

Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

Look at your own potential. Don't overestimate your capabilities and push too hard, or underestimate them and use that as an excuse to be lazy.

There's no excuse to hit a woman... Ever. Not even in a movie role, because you might really like it. And then what?

My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to me, they look at me and just roll their eyes.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

Today, we have got more excuses from the government.

More excuses for more failures.

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.