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Quotes About Excuse

As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.
~ Kit Harington
Everybody's schedule is crazy in the NBA, so that can't be an excuse.
~ DeAndre Jordan
The erotic drive is the great energy that moves through all evolution. What about love? Where does that fit in? Love's simply the handmaiden of the great energy, and an excuse to write suspect poetry.
~ Peter Milligan
What is life except excuse for death, or death except escape from life?' Recall my name with kindness now and then.
~ Peter Morwood
In its own way, though, that nihilism itself can be comforting, and this is another place where I quibble. If it's all futile, we're excused from trying. And not trying is so much easier than trying-and-failing. It's soothing to have an excuse for hopelessness. And we do have a cultural bias toward believing that the most cynical response to any situation is the wisest and most knowledgable one.
~ Peter Watts
Gücenmeyiniz, dedi, ?iirlerinize te?ekkür ederim. Sizin her geli?iniz benim için büyük teselli. Fakat hep birbirinize benziyorsunuz. Bir zevkli tecrübe, sonra elveda. Nevzat da öyle yapt?. Bir son vapur bahanesi kâfi.
~ Peyami Safa
I wouldn't say we lived in a tough neighborhood, but when I was growing up we still called a story with a happy ending an alibi.
~ Philip Kerr
Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.
~ Philip Pullman
It doesn't matter who we play against, whether it is Barcelona or another big team: when you are Man United, you do not have an excuse. You have to win.
~ Patrice Evra
Say excuse me but, really, I am actually very much in love with you.
~ Jon McGregor
im sorry I sniffed, but I have to go to an orgy.
~ Jonathan Ames
We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.
~ Jonathan Sacks
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
~ A.A. Milne
And unlike the rest of you, he hasn't yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won't do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.
~ Aaron Allston
the essence of art is its constant redefinition. So the moment that architecture wants to redefine itself, it moves into art. That's why the pairing of art and architecture is desirable, not as an excuse but as a vector of moving towards something else.
~ Aaron Levy
Some part of him must know this is unreasonable even as he thinks it. But his mind can't accept the alternative. If it's all his fault, what earthly excuse does he have be still breathing?
~ Abraham Verghese
I think, traditionally, power is perceived as something that belongs to men and is an excuse to behave in a disempowered way.
~ Whitney Wolfe Herd
They've finally comes up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.
~ Milton Berle
So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.
~ Pliny the Younger
La suerte..., eso que muchos creen que es la base del triunfo y de la dicha, y no es nada más que la excusa para negarse, muchas veces, el triunfo y la dicha.
~ Poldy Bird
Don't be ever in court or a castle without a woman to make your excuse.
~ Proverb
Sincerity is barely an explanation: it is never an excuse.
~ Remy de Gourmont
While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development - focus matters. A Christianity constantly looking for political answers to moral and spiritual problems gives believers an excuse to blame other people when they should be looking in the mirror.
~ J. D. Vance
I do know that I don't want to see anybody legitimately have the excuse that they are not voting because their votes don't count. That can't happen - whether I'm the one impacted by that vote or not.
~ Andrew Gillum