Quotes About Excuse

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

The son of God chose Peter, who knew sin, rather than the beloved John, as the rock upon which to build His Church, that sinners and the weak might never have excuse to despair.

There is no excuse for violence. There is never a justification for anyone to impose themselves on someone else. And it will always be incorrect when it comes to a man and a woman, regardless of what might have happened. You need to be man enough to take the blow. That is always the best way. Do not put your hands on a woman.

'Bad' health, in a thousand different forms, is used as an excuse for failing to do what a person wants to do, failing to accept greater responsibilities, failing to make more money, failing to achieve success.

Similarly, in Scripture Satan is a creature, a fallen creature. Because he is a creature, Satan, like all creatures has a purely local appearance: he cannot be in more than one place at a time. He cannot thus be tempting me in California and another man in Vienna at one and the same time. His approach to any man is at best severely limited, however real. Too many men are ready to blame the devil for their sins when, the truth is, they needed no help in committing them, only an excuse.

If you want to write, here's a secret: the writer's struggle is overrated, a con game, a cognitive distortion, a self-fulfilling prophecy, the best excuse for not writing. "Why should I get writer's block?" asked the mischievous Roger Simon. "My father never got truck driver's block.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

You were just too young. And in the wrong place at the wrong time in my life." "A likely excuse. I haven't been 'too young' for some time, and it's taken you nine years to even kiss me again. At this rate, you'll only advance to ravishing me when I'm forty." He dearly hoped he'd be ravishing her at forty. And thirty-five and twenty-nine and the day after tomorrow. Or today. That would certainly move his process along.

From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have not leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relations to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

12. From Alexander the Platonist, not to say to anyone often or without necessity, nor write in a letter, I am too busy, nor in this fashion constantly plead urgent affairs as an excuse for evading the obligations entailed upon us by our relations towards those around us.

but they mean well, I remind myself. Is that ever a convincing excuse when there's blood on the carpet?

Antinous sighed. 'The gods wanted to destroy us,' he said. 'That's everyone's excuse for behaving badly,' I said.

Rennie can see what she is now: she's an object of negotiation. The truth about knights comes suddenly clear: the maidens were only an excuse. The dragon was the real business. So much for vacation romances, she thinks. A kiss is just a kiss, Jocasta would say, and you're lucky if you don't get trenchmouth.

I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.

Ignorance is something of an excuse, but not entirely. So often we do not look because if we looked we should feel obliged to do something.

One pretends nothing can be done; therefore, one can do nothing and feel perfectly justified. I think it is only another kind of dishonesty

Why is it we still see our sons as children who can be excused, given time and love and patience, even when they are grown men and need to know better?

until Eric had explained that it was really just an excuse for a guy to rub his penis all over a girl and not get slapped in the face. After that

I swear it on Solin's life. (Arik) Uh, excuse me? (Solin) I would, but there's truly no excuse for you. (Arik)

Little late for that now. I don't think an 'Oops, my bad, my weapon accidentally misfired two dozen rounds' will work to get me out of this. (Devyn)

Excuse me, scary people. (Alix)