Quotes About Excuse

I excused him for the cover and for everything else. For not yet being a New Man. We fell into silence then; he did not ask me any more questions. I was still happy to sit there beside him, but that is only because I have very, very low expectations of most people, and he had now become Most People.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

On n'a plus qu'à commettre tous les crimes imaginables, tromper, voler, assassiner, et dire pour excuse qu'on y a été poussé par la destinée.

The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

Your doubt about loving someone shouldn't become your excuse for acting heartless towards those you meet along the way.

You'll have to excuse me," Susan went on, wiping her hands self-consciously on her jeans. "The place is a mess, but I guess that's what happens when you have children.

Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.

Men are linear creatures, led by their lusts. You only have to give them an excuse to act on what they already want to do.

Trust in God was a great excuse for sloth and lack of planning.

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

There is no excuse. If you want to write, write.This is your life, you are responsible for it.You will not live forever.Don't wait. Make the time now.

Though events set up the defining moments which can evoke profiles in righteousness, outward commotions cannot excuse any failure of inward resolve, even if some seem to unravel so easily.

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

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

Radicals either dismiss crimes committed by anti-Western forces as the inventions of Western propagandists or excuse them as the inevitable, if regrettably blood-spattered, consequences of Western provocation. The narcissism behind their reasoning is too glaring to waste time on.

To excuse his attacks against the world, man determined that matter is inert.

To be useful to society" is the ambition, or excuse, of a prostitute.

We're inclined to excuse in ourselves behavior that we find unacceptable in others.

When nature called, the men would relieve themselves in a pot at the sideboard without interrupting their conversation, an English custom instituted not so much for convenience as to preempt any excuse for the weak of stomach or head to sneak out before the drinking was finished.

Archie had broken rules with passion as his excuse, and she was asked to rationally pick up the pieces.

But is the word used before you rationalize why the situation is not your fault nor responsibility.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life