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Quotes About Excuse

Even wars, if they ever again arise to degrade us, should not be an excuse for an attack upon the Constitution. When one law of a nation is broken with impunity the rest are rendered ineffectual.
~ Taylor Caldwell
El mundo no queda nunca estático; cada año que pasa es un mundo diferente. Sin embargo, ahora que todo el mundo dice que vivimos en un mundo cambiante, creo que es una excusa para justificar los excesos.
~ Taylor Caldwell
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.
~ David Gerrold
Climate change is not an excuse to silence political speech.
~ Luther Strange
Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.
~ Karen Finerman
You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it. It's an easy way to escape responsibility."
~ Ice Cube
God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
~ Plutarch
As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads."
~ Al Yankovic
The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
~ George Carlin
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
~ John Selden
Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.
~ Democritus
Sir! This Marine apologizes for his disgraceful behavior during that interview, sir! This Marine let down himself and his fellow Marines, sir!" "Aren't you going to give me an excuse? You were wounded. Shellshocked. Drugged. Suffering from malaria." "Sir! There is no excuse, sir!
~ Neal Stephenson
then I decided I didn't want any regrets. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
~ Ned Vizzini
Why are you bothering? You've got an excuse. You've got bad blood. You must like living; I guess I would if I were you.
~ Ned Vizzini
I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
~ Ned Vizzini
but then I decided I didn't want any regrets. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
~ Ned Vizzini
I'm glad I have a concrete thing to blame this on, something everyone can point a finger at.
~ Ned Vizzini
Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
And of course I'm a chauvinist, but it isn't my fault. It isn't? No, Jack was born first and I share his genes. I can't help it if he infected me inside the womb. Briony burst out laughing. I should have known that would be your excuse.
~ Christine Feehan
Her ass was marked, but she didn't make a sound. After several minutes, he stopped and picked up the second tawse. "Okay, baby, we're at the main event. What are you being punished for, Seychelle?" "Because my man loves this shit and wants an excuse to use his fun little toys on me.
~ Christine Feehan
What did she think? That a man like Vittorio Ferraro was playing an elaborate hoax on her? That was absurd. She just knew she knew she couldn't take rejection from him, so it was easier to leap on the first legitimate excuse to run. Her jumbled fears weren't making any sense.
~ Christine Feehan
Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he made about the conflict he said that actions like the bombing of pilgrims at Tel Aviv airport 'did more harm than good,' which I remember thinking was (a) euphemistic and (b) a slipshod expression unworthy of a professor of English.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Eragon! I never want to hear you use that excuse again, that because someone else has done--or would do--something means that you should too. It's lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind. Am I clear?
~ Christopher Paolini