Quotes About Excuse

We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.

Stuck in traffic is not an excuse. It's a sign of bad planning

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.

If I'm making everyone wait, which happens... at least charm it on a bit. Go, 'Oh I'm so sorry I'm late.' Make up something.

I want to go to Lapland and see Father Christmas, and now I've got a child, so I've got an excuse. Also, I'd like to go to South America especially as I'm now living in that part of the world, in L.A. now. And I must get down to Mexico.

In short, luck's always to blame.

A man's alibi is the child of his own imagination. It is human nature to defend one's own brain-child.

Now it may seem to be a peculiar trait, but the truth is that most people will not grant favors just to please others. If I ask you to render a service that will benefit me, without bringing you some corresponding advantage, you will not show much enthusiasm in granting that favor; you may refuse altogether if you have a plausible excuse for refusing.

Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

Grief is not an excuse for depravity.

It's not that I don't want to, I'm just busy today. Can I throw you under a truck some other time?

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, he can do the craziest thing that nobody would do who's not in love. Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much as the malice intrinsic to the mental hospital system has been excused by the need to provide treatment.

When and why do we attribute a person's behavior to brain disease, and when and why do we not do so? Briefly, the answer is that we often attribute bad behavior to disease (to excuse the agent);never attribute good behavior to disease (lest we deprive the agent of credit); and typically attribute good behavior to free will and insist bad behavior called mental illness is a no fault act of nature.

If even someone like Chuck, one of the sharts of humanity, eventually saw Trump for the malevolent con man that he is, what does that say about the rest who still excuse him?

You are weak. A weakling barging into enemy territory is suicide. 'To rescue Rukia?' Stop being so childish. Don't use other people as an excuse to go kill yourself - Kisuke Urahara

Youth being the excuse for that fortune-cookie love—until it wasn't, until it became pure adult stupidity.

Look what science did in the war,' he said soberly. 'We found new and horrible ways to kill people. I decided that we had to be useful, or there was no excuse for us.