Quotes About Excuse

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Tradition is a pretty poor excuse for perpetrating stereotypes.

There was no excuse, in this country and in this time, for the spread of a deadly new epidemic.

Without a vision, we become a debating society and a place where habit quickly becomes 'tradition.' Tradition often becomes an excuse for repression, bigotry, or reactionary thinking.

Deep within me there is a radical, intimate, bitter and incessant boredom which prevents me from enjoying anything and which smothers my soul. It reappears at any excuse, just as the swollen corpses of drowned dogs pop to the surface despite the stones that have been tied round their necks

We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the state of being an individual as an excuse for inaction, helplessness and irresponsibility.No situation is so overwhelming that action is pointless. Targassat of Surang.

but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.

I opened my mouth to say what a horrible accident, that I was an idiot, that I hadn't been looking where I was going and it was all my fault and blah-blah-blah, but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.

Some Other Dude Did It

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

Now if you'll excuse me, Death waits for no man. Except me.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

People who say it takes money to make money are using the worst excuse ever. . . Create massive value for others by providing a solution where no other exists.

Spirituality cannot be an excuse for not making money!!! Just a justification for failure!

A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It's kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.