Quotes About Excuse

I ask you now, is any little thing like being damned eternally a satisfactory excuse for behaving like a complete rat?

fuck off! this isn't my fault....it wasn't my idea to kick it!" same conversation 1 minuet later

Alas, God's poor ministers are just as much in the dark as we are. You must believe like old women believe, the ones that look like witches, who mumble to themselves in churches under the nose of cheap, plaster saints. As soon as you start to use your reason, to look for a rainbow, you always run up against the great excuse, mystery. You will be advised to light some candles, put coins in the box, say a few rosaries, and make yourself stupid.

But there is, of course, no excuse. For it is not really his art but his life that he is talking about, and for one's life not living up to expectation there is no excuse, except for the paltry one that this is true of everybody's life.

He who excuses himself accuses himself.

A truly magnificent thing about the way the brain was coded, Sam thought, was that it could say "Excuse me" while meaning "Screw you.

Some use the label toxic much too broadly as an excuse to avoid difficult, different, or hurting people.

What could he be thinking of? He seemed to be trying to remember something, perhaps an engagement, perhaps an excuse to leave her. For eventually, they all made some excuse.

I can't possibly go to school today," Michelle pouted, "I have nothing to wear." Her

There is a natural human inclination to take advantage of grace in order to excuse sin.

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

but the death of somebody close gives you a good excuse to go a bit crazy for a while and do things that would otherwise be inexcusable. What delight to behave really badly and still get loads of sympathy!

Why not? It's natural selection. Just like nature. I wrinkled my nose. Boudas love this argument, because it gives them an excuse to do all the wrong things. 'I'm sorry I screwed your sister and got my penis stuck in your German shepherd. It's in my nature. I just couldn't help myself.

There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team.

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

If I think I'm going to get into trouble I always say that I'm sick.

I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great.

The truth is, we are a culture built on a reward system, and our instinctive pursuit of pleasure can often lead us astray. We will rationalize anything into an excuse to indulge in whatever it is that makes us feel temporarily satiated.

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.

Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

Compassion is not a replacement for stupidity. Tearful concern cannot stand in the stead of cold recognition. Sympathy does not cancel out the hard facts of brutal, unwavering observation. It was too easy, too cheap, to fret and wring one's hands, moaning with heartfelt empathy – it was damned self-indulgent, in fact, providing the perfect excuse for doing precisely nothing while assuming a pious pose. Enough of that.