Quotes About Excuse

I don't have much time' is a lousy excuse. There is always time, what we you don't have is the skills to manage the time.

She would find it very difficult to say an outright no if she did not have a ready-made excuse.

Sorry I'm late guys, a black cat crossed my path so I had to go the long way.

This provided an excuse for sidelining questions of independence – until the subject people were 'ready'. Hailey got the Americans to go along with this, by suggesting a similar line on Southern segregation. Economic betterment would come first; political liberation could wait.

Confronted with each nation's own questionable products and practices, we have two choices. We can say, as Mr. Komatsu hopes, Well they do X but we do Y, so who are we to judge? We then end up with no standard at all, instead using other people's cruelties as an excuse for our own.

She came back many days later. She saw him, unexpectedly, on a flat stretch of stone before her, by the side of the path. She stopped short. She did not want to come too close. It was strange to see him before her, without the defence and excuse of distance.

Make sure Michelle's all right with it," she said. "Not that I'm the marriage expert. And don't you dare use me as an excuse not to do it. I've got enough to deal with without feeling like everybody's putting their lives on hold. It's morbid, understand?

Sovereignty cannot be a shield for tyrants to commit wanton murder, or an excuse for the international community to turn a blind eye to slaughter.

I understood it, the boy said. It was a game, wasn't it? Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age? You don't know everything, the gunslinger said, trying to hold his slow anger. No. But I know what I am to you. And what is that? The gunslinger asked tightly. A poker chip.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Kindness is the excuse that social justice warriors use when they want to exercise control over what other people think and say.

To hold the no excuse for physical punishment theory is also (fifth) to assume that the word no can be effectively uttered to another person in the absence of the threat of punishment.

Most of my Spanish vocabulary consists of phrases like I didn't know that car was stolen, or I was home watching TV during the shooting, or That's not blood, it's molé sauce.

El joven no necesita razones para vivir; sólo necesita pretextos

Unfortunately ignorance of the law is not excuse for breaking it,

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

We excuse movies like 'Independence Day' that really lack logic and say, 'It doesn't make any sense, but it's a ride.' I thought a movie was a movie and a ride was a ride.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.