Quotes About Excuse

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

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

But you love to play the good man, don't you? Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero. A man like that, there's nothing he won't do, and he'll always find himself an excuse.

Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero. A man like that, there's nothing he won't do, and he'll always find himself an excuse.

Having fucked the groom is really no excuse for missing a wedding, you know.

Folk she'd known to be big on religion had tended to use it as an excuse for doing wrong rather'n a reason not to.

Conscience is an excuse not to do what needs doing.

She tipped back her head and swilled down the last of her wine. 'Having fucked the groom is really no excuse for missing a wedding, you know.

I never did a thing to deserve loyalty like that.' 'Sometimes loyalty's an excuse for something else.

You aren't old until age becomes your excuse. If you continue to remind yourself of your age and use it as a crutch, no matter what that number is, you'll come to believe that high achievement is impossible. That

Sorry! Can't!' said Gilbert. 'Massage,' he explained, then exited the bar, apparently via catapult. 'Philip?' Claire said. My first impulse was to follow Gilbert's lead by briskly dismounting the couch and diving through the Gilbert-shaped hole he'd left in the wall on departing.

All of us, even the sophisticated, yearn for permanence, and to the unsophisticated permanence is the chief excuse for a work of art.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

I've used up all my sick days so I'm calling in dead.

Yes, Officer, I did see the speed limit sign. I just didn't see you.

Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them.

Law of the Alibi: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!

I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.

I went to a drama club when I was little, but it was more of an excuse to flirt with girls than anything else. We never put on plays.

I'm the type of fighter who has never made an excuse. I fought with a broken rib, broken leg.

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

Had his own way of praying, he had said; that old excuse. As if we were meant to be solitary. As if the church were not about holding the community together, as this sinful one needed.