Quotes About Excuse

All she remembered was that Caligula had planned to torture his wife to find out why he was so devoted to her. What was David's excuse, she wondered.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.

Unsportsmanlike predator-killing is always rationalized as defence of property—usually someone else's property. This excuse is getting too thin to pass muster among thinking conservationists.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

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.

An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie;for an excuse is a lie guarded

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie

I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

There's no excuse in 2019, with the wealth we have as a nation, with the technology we have as a country, that we cannot clean this water, ensure that all communities have clean drinking water.

There's no excuse for the macro corruption, but Afghanistan was always an informal society with a weak central government.

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.

I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.

I'm on my computer a lot, but I swear I have an excuse! I spend about nine hours on media a day, but seven or eight of those are doing my schoolwork.

But Why didn't she tell me? Why hide it?" ..."Would you brag about having a brother like me, sir?" Major Adams cut him a sharp look, then with a shrug seemed to accept his excuse...which was fairly insulting, if Bradley thought about it...

Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things." The reader who gleefully joins in the condemnation of the unrighteous is "without excuse" (anapologtos) before God (2:1), just as those who refuse to acknowledge God are anapologtos

Then you can blame it on your parents,' I said, smiling. 'Won't that be a relief?

Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen;Here's to the widow of fifty;Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean,And here's to the housewife that's thrifty. Let the toast pass—Drink to the lass;I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.

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.

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