Quotes About Excuse

tactic that works well for me is to be clear in my refusal but ambiguous in my explanation for the refusal. The key is to avoid providing enough specificity about the excuse that the requester has the opportunity to defuse it.

si verdaderamente quieres encontrar una disculpa para justificar cualquier cosa, ten la plena seguridad que la hallarás sin mayor dificultad.

Every human behavior can be explained by what precedes it, but that does not excuse it

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

Fate is an excuse, a way to remove blame and therefore guilt for poor decision making. Free choice decides the outcome of your life, not fate.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

You want an excuse for your failure and so you found someone to blame. If you survived, you would always be dirt, ground under someone else's boot.

angry people aren't interested in justice. They just want an excuse to vent their rage.

Because he had hardened his soul and silenced his conscience with the excuse of progress

Trueba continued polishing his reputation as a rake, sowing the entire region with his bastard offspring, reaping hatred, and storing up sins that barely nicked him because he had hardened his soul and silenced his conscience with the excuse of progress.

I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.

He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.)

And oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, - As patches, set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched.

The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.

Ignorance is no excuse-it's the real thing.

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet.

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

Drinking goes with everything, there's always an excuse to drink. We sell beer and liquor 24/7/365 everywhere, you can buy a 5th of vodka at 3am on Easter Sunday if you want.

Inspiration is an excuse for doing something you already want to do.

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.