Quotes About Excuse

His route to them met with one obstacle after another as he negotiated his way across the room, excusing himself at every turn and twist.

Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour.

There was something wrong about seeing her now. It was as if they belonged to different worlds. He wished he could excuse himself.

I will always do music, and now - with where the world is going with social media and people dropping stuff for free and doing this and doing that - there's no excuse.

Some of us have tough lives and find chocolate is a comfort and a friend. And some of us prefer a night on the sofa with Ant & Dec to hitting the gym. But whatever your excuse - and there is always an excuse - we are a nation of fatties.

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.

Fight Is Excuse Love Not Refuse

Some of these things I understand, some I do not. It makes no difference. The discussions give me an excuse to talk to him, fatherly conversations I cannot have with my father, who would like me to be a lawyer.

Maybe that was the price of ignorance, I thought, looking at the naked vagrant. Maybe Japan had to pay for the ignorant things it did in Nanking. Because ignorance as I'd got tired of hearing, is no excuse for evil.

Mercy laughed. "You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability." "What?" "Testosterone.

right now capitalism is winning hands down. It wins every time the need for economic growth is used as the excuse for putting off climate action yet again, or for breaking emission reduction commitments already made.

Waiting for business conditions to pick up. This is nothing but an excuse.

He was glad of an excuse to walk in the moonlight with Nancy. As they followed the road that wound in and out along the river, Ned felt only the romance of the evening. But Nancy's thoughts kept reverting to the mystery. It was an eerie night. Now and then clouds would obscure the moon, causing grotesque shadows to flicker across their path.

The moon made me do it.

Destiny is for losers... It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

You'll have to ask Bill that, Sookie. And this is the only reason we're going? You're not cleverly using this as an excuse to make out with me? I'm not that clever, Eric. I think you deceive yourself, Sookie, Eric said with a brilliant smile.

As a competitor, you don't want to use anything as an excuse. No matter how your body's doing or how you're feeling mentally, you should be able to find a way to get the job done.

Everybody out on the sidewalk is a pedestrian Mercedes, wallowing in entitlement—colliding, snarling, shoving ahead without even the hollow-to-begin-with local euphemism "Excuse me.

Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.

Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.

What are you two doing in here?" Mike Iglehart wore an eye-blistering white lab coat and a surly expression. "This isn't some teenage make-out room." My face flushed scarlet. "Excuse me?" "We were using the computer!" Ben barked. "That's it.

The four of us piled inside. Hi pressed five. The doors slid shut. "Hope nobody else needs a lift," Shelton whispered. "We can make something up," Hi hissed. "Say we lost our pony." I snorted. "And came to report it at one a.m.?" "Better than breaking in to steal evidence," Hi countered. "Maybe we loved that pony.

Angels told me you're the poison, and always have been. Said you used God as an excuse to hurt people, includin' your own kin.

Three aspects of the self betrayer's conduct always go together: accusing others, excusing oneself, and displaying oneself as a victim.