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Quotes About Excuse

We are all accountable: Our fallen nature is no excuse. We are responsible: God is not to blame. We stand guilty and deserving judgment. Any other teaching dilutes and refutes the true significance of the cross of Christ.
~ William Wilberforce
Only an unwillingness to be open and honest can keep us from the conclusion that both reason and experience tell us that what the Bible says about us is true. We are without excuse if we remain in denial.
~ William Wilberforce
Bill did not believe in luck. Bad luck or good. Bill knew it was never a matter of luck, never a question of luck. Bill knew luck was just another excuse for failure.
~ David Peace
Then he defined patriotism: "The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious . . . garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them.
~ David W. Blight
I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.
~ Dax Shepard
As Benjamin Franklin is thought to have wisely advised, "Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
~ Dean Ornish
If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.
~ Amit Kalantri
An excuse will not wake up early
~ Johnnie Dent Jr.
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
~ Ernest Bevin
Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?
~ Dorothy Osborne
Todo es justificable desde el propio punto de vista, y cada cual tiene el suyo, cargarse de razón es muy fácil.
~ Javier Marías
Luck's always to blame.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
She was by nature a sunny soul, and had always snatched the tiniest excuse to be amused.
~ Jean Webster
Vassily cleared his throat, probably impatient with Gabriel's bookshelf manners. 'You'll have to excuse me,' Gabriel said, putting back the booklet, 'I have a severe addiction to ink.' 'Don't we all?' Vassily nodded. 'Thank God we have other addictions to assuage it a little.
~ Jean-Christophe Valtat
You don't need an excuse to be depressed.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Ethics is too fundamentally important a factor in civilization to depend upon a theological or a legal excuse; [pg 035] ethics must conform to the natural laws of human nature.
~ Alfred Korzybski
Having dedicated whole regions to the destruction you inspire, the logic will be to go on doing it doing it. Having proceeded by the logic of your per- sonal vaccuum you will perceive your continued lightlessness as an excuse to go on. having gone on as you have. And so one continues.
~ Alice Notley
Excuse me, miss, but the young gentlemen say that you cannot get smoke without the boom, and they would like your advice on how to proceed.
~ Ally Carter
Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all.
~ Alyson Noel
But what she also came to know was that someone somewhere would always see in any kind of difference, an excuse to be mean.
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
There is no possible justification or excuse for marketing dangerous weapons to children as if they were toys.
~ Elizabeth Esty
I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.
~ Rachel McAdams
It seems there always something coming up for me during Masters week, but that's not an excuse to play good or bad golf.
~ John Daly
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.
~ Henri Rousseau