Quotes About Excuse

It is a very poor thing, whether for nations or individuals, to advance the history of great deeds done in the past as an excuse for doing poorly in the present; but it is an excellent thing to study the history of the great deeds of the past, and of the great men who did them, with an earnest desire to profit thereby so as to render better service in the present.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant

The wicked always finds an excuse for wrongdoing.

The arrogance of wanting to be loved had emerged only now it was unreciprocated—I was left alone with my desire, defenseless, beyond the law, shockingly crude in my demands: Love me! And for what reason? I had only the usual paltry, insufficient excuse: Because I love you . .

And what excuse was there for this? Nothing but the old line that parents and politicians will use before taking out their scalpels: I care about you, therefore I will upset you, I have honoured you with a vision of how you should be, therefore I will hurt you.

Where's my black top?" "I put it in the wash." "It was clean." "It had blood on it." "Yeah, but not mine.

In the famous temple sculptures of Khajuraho, one finds beautiful women disrobing themselves on the excuse that a scorpion is climbing up their thighs.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

It's starting to make sense to me. Why he'd go along with a scheme like this, why he'd spend his time with someone like me. It's not so he can move on from Gen. It's so he can't. I'm just his excuse. I'm holding Genevieve's place for her. When that piece makes sense, everything else starts to.

First, we should never use the doctrine as an excuse for our own shortcomings.

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

The thinner the excuse, the fatter the reason for it.

This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for fucking up, for being a successful fuck-up.

Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

I do not want you children to use my untimely death, or any setback that life may deliver, as an excuse not to take responsibility for yourselves.

As though what he did were the excuse for their own boredom then, and lack of concern. He is just like other people to them. He could easily have danced with a troupe of angels in Paradise every night and they wouldn't have guessed.

Unfortunately, fear often disguises itself behind the mask of care. Fearful people often excuse their fear as caution. "I'm not afraid. I'm just being cautious." "You can't rush these things, you know.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

The icing on the cake was that tomorrow he (Silas) and Sarah had a perfectly acceptable excuse to leave this cold, nut-strewn, shrew-infested treehouse and return to civilisation.

You'll have to excuse my husband.' Jane grinned. 'He disapproves of inherited wealth. I'm afraid he's a bit of a socialist.' 'As was Our Lord