Quotes About Excuse

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

Whenever politicians start talking in mystical terms, beware. They might be trying to disguise and excuse real suffering by wrapping it up in big, incomprehensible words.

We can't sit down and keep rehashing what people did to us in the past, Ma, or use those injustices as any kind of complete excuse for our present situation. Every people have some kind of grievance. Fighting for our rights is a natural thing, but things don't often go according to rights, and rights have to be maintained one way or another. My main worry is, will we be able to hold onto our rights once we get them? Only the good-will of the world will help us do that in our present situation.

People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of them. But those who don't excuse their faults and admit they didn't deserve to be spared - they are few.

The cry for more education, by the way, is often a despairing excuse for not liberalizing the economy directly and quickly.

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.

Accessibility to information never been so advanced and easy in entire human history as it is now and we have no excuse for ignorance.

This last argument overcame my remorse. It was all I needed, for man is a coward intent on finding an excuse for his cowardice

I don't like when people minimize their gifts. There is a difference between humility and insecurity, and self-effacement does no one any favors. We teach our watching children to doubt and excuse and diminish themselves.

I told you the truth at the bridge. I don't have a good excuse. Blame it on a bad mood." Tate dips his chin, and his grin shoots my heart to the ceiling. "If I tell you I'm sorry a hundred more times, will you forgive me? 'Cause I'll do it, if that's what it takes.

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

Zodra hij me zijn kant op zag komen, excuseerde hij zich bij de groep met wie hij stond te praten en verdween hij het jongenstoilet in. Waarschijnlijk dacht hij dat hij me daarmee had afgeschud. Blijkbaar kende hij me niet heel goed.

Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don't you think? For doing terrible things to other people.

I'm not ready." These are the three magic words. I've discovered they can get you out of almost anything.

IX. The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.

The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain.

Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?

Butler had an excuse for not being in Iceland that would hold up in any court of law and possibly even on a note for teacher.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

The first impression is the truth, and all that follows is merely the excuse of memory.

To face this fact is to encounter one of the most demanding challenges in thinking about history: explaining how people in the past could have failed to see what seems so clear to us in retrospect. This is an imperative task but also a delicate and exacting one. On one hand, explanation can shade into excuse, on the other hand, passing judgment on the past can be a form of self-congratulation in the present.

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.