Quotes About Excuse

my grandfather laid claim to all the virtues. Vice was the only thing left to me." Clare scowled at him. "The old earl has been dead for four years, and you're a grown man. Find a better excuse, or learn better behavior.

Find a better excuse, or learn better behavior.

Excuse me? Does anyoone know where I can find a Mr. and Mrs. Froste? They told me to meet them here this afternoon. Apparently they want to discuss a job. Something that could 'really make history'. Their words. - Arin

Couldn't everyone see that the point of merit is to hold power accountable, not to supply yet another excuse for unaccountable power?

Luckily, my job demands constant reading, otherwise I'd have to figure out some other excuse.

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

Shikata ga nai: it could not be helped. If this was a monumentally inadequate excuse for condemning millions to death without hope of securing any redemptive compensation, it is a constant of history that nations which start wars find it very hard to stop them.

When the failure-type personality looks for a scapegoat or excuse for his failure, he often blames society, "the system," life, "the breaks." He resents the success and happiness of others because it is proof to him that life is shortchanging him and he is being treated unfairly.

One question can make all the difference between your success or failure. A winner asks how it will be done. A loser asks why it cannot be done. Asking how to succeed, helps you find a way. Asking why you will fail, gives you an excuse to stay.

Most people who know they've fucked up manage to find a way to justify themselves.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Parsons stood on the edge of the dock at Camp KooKoRomo. She'd left her fishing gear—borrowed as an excuse to check out the lake—near the tall grass. If she jumped into the water and pretended to drown, would the counselors send her home? Camp will be good for you, Kat. You're too young to be stuck on the farm with a couple of old fogies. So instead of being with her grandparents, whom she loved, or visiting

If the "world" believed something, then you had to believe its opposite to be righteous. It made people rage against everything from a global economy to public schooling and immunizations, but mostly I thought it was just an excuse not to have to do the work that seeing shades of grey requires.

Oh, don't let him pull that 'Pearl Harbor I'm going off to war' stuff on you.

When words fail, the hammer drops, living can never be its own excuse.

Everything a child experiences, either by way of indulgence or the self-restraint you impose, is preparing him for the day when he will mature into a responsible, moral soul. Somewhere on that road of development, each child will graduate to commence his full accountability. That child then stands alone before God, "without excuse." It becomes his day of accountability.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.' And another time, 'The grass isn't greener on the other side. It's greener where you water it.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

She likes to use the word "realistically" which I come to realize is a rationale, an excuse, to not plan ahead because much of what she might want for herself, upon reflection does not seem realistic.

Why are you naked?" "The better to feed you, m'dear." He pointed between his legs and my gaze roved along his cock. Then I saw his forefinger tapping his inner thigh. "Femoral artery." "Riiight. And the major vein in your neck wasn't good enough because… ?" One black brow winged up and those delicious lips curved into a naughty smile. "Ah. Because then I wouldn't have had an excuse to get naked.

Why are you naked?" "The better to feed you, m'dear." Then I saw his forefinger tapping his inner thigh. "Femoral artery." "Riiight. And the major vein in your neck wasn't good enough because… ?" One black brow winged up and those delicious lips curved into a naughty smile. "Ah. Because then I wouldn't have had an excuse to get naked." "Or get chained to a wall." "Hmmm.

We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exercise power. For those upon whom that power is exercised, naiveté is always a mistake.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

I knew that the best way to get out of chores, or sports, or talking to elderly relatives on the phone was by holding up a book and saying, "But I'm just enjoying Little House on the Prairie so much!