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Quotes About Excuse

Le destin, ça n'existe pas, trancha froidement Shino. Le destin, c'est l'excuse de ceux qui ne veulent pas être responsables de leur vie.
~ Guillaume Musso
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
~ H. L. Mencken
Excuse me for asking, sir, but are we expecting trouble? Always, Captain, Tarkin said, without levity.
~ James Luceno
Excuse me? I'm alive too.
~ James Patterson
When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all.
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali
A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to let their bodies go, and that's the worst thing.
~ Tracy Anderson
Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
~ Billy Graham
A daughter of God knows that insecurity is not an excuse for doing evil to others, nor will God rest until caring for everyone is a lesson you learn.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Whenever it gets a little cold in L.A., it gives me an excuse to light my fireplace. You could stare at that joint for, like, a cool two hours. It's entrancing.
~ Flying Lotus
However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.
~ Marilu Henner
The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
~ Alexander Alekhine
I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.
~ Hedy Lamarr
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
~ Thomas Kempis
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
~ Thomas Szasz
The holiness of the saints will not excuse them from sufferings.
~ Thomas Watson
Many are called, but few chosen " (Matt. xx. 16). This external call is insufficient to salvation, yet sufficient to leave men without excuse.
~ Thomas Watson
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go home and feed my two kittens, Growth and Metamorphosis.
~ Tia Williams
I think a lot of people get turned off on religion, just because some of the followers use love as an excuse to hate.
~ Tim Dorsey
Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
~ William Camden
I believed that regardless of political ideologies - the reality was I didn't even have any - which is no excuse, and it's a horrible thing to admit, but I've admitted it - you can't get into something not knowing who the players are, but also not understanding that policy and ethics go together.
~ Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period and reading its books and watching its films. I see it as a real treat.
~ Sarah Waters
How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse.
~ Norman Mailer
And now, he continued, speaking to Milo, where were you on the night of July 27? What does that have to do with it? asked Milo. It's my birthday, that's what, said the policeman as he entered Forgot my birthday in his little book. Boys always forget other people's birthdays.
~ Norton Juster