Quotes About Excuse

The only excuse for failure is "I am dead".

it is God's righteous decree to reveal his wrath and his power (v. 22), and to show forth his mercy toward the elect (v. 23). All things are done by God's will and power, and he needs no excuse for his decrees and actions.

Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.

You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confidence must be maintained.

They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence ... to productivity. And they're happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other.

Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?

An excuse is a lie guarded.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

Poor man! Is your curiosity so hot for what you've been denied? And you men put the blame on Eve and excuse Adam.

Excuse me? You're a lady? I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.

You're bleeding all over my couch." I groaned. "Excuse the hell out of me.

It's an excuse to let their vilest impulses out to play.

Dylan wrapped his arms around my middle and pulled me closer to him. Perhaps the true reason Hollywood made scary movies. So guys could have an excuse for holding a girl close.

I'm sure, you'll never again have a problem with a tool or a machine. No more hammered thumbs, no vacuum-cleaner catastrophes. That'll take a second miracle. Because all that clumsiness was never anything but an elaborate excuse not to have a gun, not to learn how to use one.

I'm late," she told him.

I'm human. The single most overused excuse on the planet for doing the absolute wrong thing.

And he added that prudence in no way assured us of success but consoled us and excused us in failure.

Nous aimons, sans nous en douter, tout ce qui nous livre à nos penchants, nous séduit et excuse notre faiblesse.

The fact that someone is seen as being punished by God should not be an excuse for not practicing virtue towards that person, but quite the contrary. Even in an ordinary learning situation, we all make mistakes which cause us problems, but we often equally help one another through such difficulties, rather than blame one another.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

These days, the practice of reading spiritual classics is on the wane. We have more leisure today than ever before in history, but many people claim to have no time for reading. A spiritual leader cannot use that excuse.

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R]eal prayer is not an excuse for laziness but, in fact, is one of the most arduous engagements I know of in ministry. Prayer is not a replacement for hard work but, in most cases, empowerment for even more fruitful work.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.