Quotes About Excuse

I've never made an excuse with my time in Arizona. It just didn't work out for whatever reason.

If justin.tv can succeed, then nobody has an excuse. It was a terrible idea.

I think I needed boxing as an excuse, to be busy, 'cause if I wasn't busy I was getting into trouble.

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

So the bloodline wasn't pure." He shook his head. "It was an excuse, like all the other excuses. I liked my life as it was. I didn't want ties, especially the sort I'd have had with you." He looked at her with pure raging desire. "I knew if we were ever intimate, there'd be no going back. I was right. I eat, breathe, sleep and dream you, especially now, with my baby growing in your belly.

Do not spend too much time planning or trying to anticipate and solve problems before they happen. That is just another kind of excuse for procrastination. Until you start, you won't know where the problems will occur. You won't have the experience to solve them. Instead, get into action, and solve the problems as they arise.

And your point is?? My point is like, democracy is excuse for any fucking thing. Violence ...greed ...stupidity... anything is ok if Americans do it. Right? Am I right? You really can't shut up, can you?

An external enemy is a wonderful thing for politicians to have," Rione said dryly. "They can excuse and justify a great many things by pointing to that enemy. But that doesn't mean external enemies are never real. What is that old saying? Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't really out to get you.

Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.

Some people feel threatened by the concept that abuse is a solvable problem, because if it is, there's no excuse for not solving it.

Love is terrible sometimes, isn't it?" "People are terrible," River said. "Everything else is an excuse.

using it as an excuse to delay a decision until she could see whether he was going to be able to handle this sort of power.

then to shift the blame for it onto the shoulders of others.

There is no excuse for cruelty, but--at an orphanage--perhaps we are obliged to withhold love; if you fail to withhold love at an orphanage, you will create an orphanage that no orphan will willingly leave. You will create a Homer Wells--a true orphan, because his only home will always be at St. Cloud's.

It was a reaction bred into her from childhood. That was an explanation, not an excuse. The reaction shamed her, and yet she seemed powerless to banish it or keep it from affecting her behavior.

Forgive me if I wander a little this evening, for I have been all day employ'd in a very abstract Poem and I am in deep love with you—two things which must excuse me.

Don't use your upbringing as excuse, use it as power.

Soviet leaders had to treat the outside world as hostile because this provided the only excuse "for the dictatorship without which they did not know how to rule, for cruelties they did not dare not to inflict, for sacrifices they felt bound to demand.

The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.