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Quotes About Excuse

Worshipping Elvis seems to be an excuse for Americans to be fat and stupid.'Probably probably, they love vulgarity. Look at McDonald's
~ Bill Hicks
I did once talk non-stop for 12 and a half hours, but it was to raise money for a worthwhile charity. At least, that's my excuse.
~ Gyles Brandreth
My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.
~ Mary Garden
Lost is not an address, it's not permission to fail, it's not an excuse.
~ Gregory Maguire
Lost is not an address, it's not a permission to fail, it's not an excuse.
~ Gregory Maguire
The desire to start something at the "right" time is usually just a justification for delay. In almost every case, the best time to start is now.
~ Gretchen Rubin
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Autobiography
~ Gretchen Rubin
Harry had loved most of the arts long enough to know that artists had to be excused failings which would condemn the general population. The artist was the proxy, the brave one, the one who spoke, was thanked, and who paid the price. Artists were allowed, indeed encouraged, to lead more libidinous lives on behalf of others who had, of necessity, to leave their jouissance, at the door while they worked.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Harry had loved most of the arts long enough to know that artists had to be excused failings which would condemn the general population.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
~ Hannah Arendt
in a single instant, can the consciousness of the sin that has been committed in thoughts, words, and actions of our past life, be unfolded to us. When once the conscience is awakened, it springs up in the heart spontaneously, and God awakens the conscience when we least expect it. Then we can find no excuse for ourselves; the deed is there and bears witness against us.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Because it sounds like he's trying to justify his actions.
~ Harlan Coben
Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.
~ Cesar Romero
There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.
~ Michael Scott
Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
~ Livy
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.
~ Sherman Edwards
Luck is an excuse You give for not understanding God's planning
~ Siddharth Astir
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I'm not sure that love is an excuse for everything
~ Siri Hustvedt
Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.
~ Josh Hutcherson
Your only defense can be you were so madly in love you weren't responsible for your actions.
~ Suzanne Collins
Love is an excuse to be stupid
~ Tyra Banks