Quotes About Excuse

When a newspaper columnist wants to write about a novel, the rule is that you're supposed to have a 'hook,' an excuse, a timely reason to bring up the book in question.

JOHN 5:22 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.

We stand with Calvin when it comes to the moral compass: Jesus "means that however difficult, arduous, troublesome or painful God's rule may be, we must make no excuse for that, as the righteousness of God should be worth more to us, than all the other things which are chiefly dear and precious.

They will grow up knowing that they should be only proud about being adopted. I will consider it a parental failure if our daughters ever try to use it as some kind of excuse.

That's why so many people want to be victims today. So they don't have to accept the burden of being raised without historical calamity—without war or famine. They want an excuse for the fact they're still not happy.

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

He begged hard, and said he couldn't play—a plausible excuse, but too thin; there wasn't a musician in the country that could.

There was probably not a knight of all the Round Table combination who would not rather have died than been caught carrying such a thing as that on his flagstaff.  And yet there could not be anything more sensible.  It had been my intention to smuggle a couple of sandwiches into my helmet, but I was interrupted in the act, and had to make an excuse and lay them aside, and a dog got them.

I excused myself and tracked down Dr. W, the senior surgeon on duty.

but my dad said it was no excuse. But I love him! I had never seen my sister cry that much. No, you don't. I hate you! No, you don't. My dad can be very calm sometimes. He's my whole world. Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me. That was my mom.

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse." That

No el mundo arrastra una tragedia, Charlie, y aunque así fuera no los excusaría

No todo el mundo arrastra una tragedia, y aunque así fuera, no los excusaría

You've called your carelessness love and made a virtue of irresponsibility.

A central function of thought is making sure that one acts in ways that can be persuasively justified or excused to others.

Well, she may think it was her idea, but I'd been looking for an excuse to get you back all winter.

A lie is an excuse guarded.

In my defense, I was young and there was an open bar.

Put your temper to more use cause Being broke is a poor excuse

El "etcétera" es el descanso de los sabios y la excusa de los ignorantes.

Unfortunately, "learning" is the oldest excuse in the book for a failure of execution.

Unfortunately, "learning" is the oldest excuse in the book for a failure of execution. It's what managers fall back on when they fail to achieve the results we promised.

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

plausible deniability.