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Quotes About Excuse

Tagged by a whiny little vamp. Rache, take this sword and stick it in me. Just go and stick it in me. I'm a back-drafted, crumpled-winged, dust-caked, dew-assed excuse of a backup. Worthless as a pixy condom. Taken down by my own partner. Just tape my ass shut and let me fart out my mouth.
~ Kim Harrison
Who says I'm drinking? (Morgan) I guess the bottle drank itself. (Jake)
~ Kinley MacGregor
I have observed that radical faith is so convicting to doubters, the lukewarm, the halfhearted and the religious who have re-scripted the Bible in a way that requires them to live only in the realm of reason. The truth is, you have to either be the next one out of the boat or find some spiritual excuse to relieve your cowardliness.
~ Kris Vallotton
You must have... loathed what became of science in Germany." "I wanted nothing to do with this drive toward the impossible, these speculations. The Frankenstein myth. He, too, was German. But it is not just Germans, not simply the convenient excuse of a Hitler. That is why I tell you: if they want Jane Doe, they will take her. They always have.
~ Carole Nelson Douglas
You're perfect,aren't you?" "I am a werewolf," he says between bites. He bends his head. "That just gives you a totally good excuse for your pathetic temper." He wiggles his eyebrows. "True.
~ Carrie Jones
Nothing someone says before the word "but" really counts.
~ George R. R. Martin
La brujería es la salsa que vierten los idiotas sobre el fracaso para ocultar el sabor de su incompetencia" -Tyrion Lannister
~ George R.R. Martin
What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
~ Gerald Barzan
I hope you will excuse my being late. The person in this organization who gave me directions here has obviously heard me speak before.
~ Anonymous
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
That works for now. Eve's stomach began to clench and jitter. There were tears swimming in her aide's eyes. Peabody's lips were quivering. What are you doing? she demanded. Nothing. Sir. How come you're going to cry? You know how I feel about crying on the job. I'm not crying. And it appalled her that she was on the edge of it. I just don't feel very well, that's all. I wonder, sir, if I could be excused from the briefing at sixteen hundred.
~ J.D. Robb
I'm fascinating by the hard line you're drawing over religion.' 'it gets used too much as an excuse, a fall guy, a weapon, a con. A lot of people, maybe most, don't mean it except when it suits them.
~ J.D. Robb
It gets used too much, as an excuse, a fall guy, a weapon, a con. A lot of people, maybe most, don't mean it except when it suits them.
~ J.D. Robb
For Obama, ignorance was never an excuse. Ignorance was a strategy.
~ Jack Cashill
Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.
~ Melissa Etheridge
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
~ Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
Poverty and War have no excuse.
~ Vanna Bonta
Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.
~ Karl Shapiro
We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.
~ Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
O you who reproach me, regarding my love, excuse me. From me to you if you do justice, you would not reproach me. My state (of love) has been expressed to you, (now) my secret is no longer concealed.
~ Busiri
I'd like to kiss you, Darling, but I just washed my hair.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
For a lame horse, slippery is an excuse
~ Tamil proverb
I said, "Please tell me that little story wasn't your excuse for killing two people." There was a very long silence. Then Shay said, "How long were you listening at that door?
~ Tana French
The gods have said, and the Greeks also, that when a man wishes to evade his duties he can summon any illness to assist him
~ Taylor Caldwell