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Quotes About Excused

He leaves his wife to manage the inn; and as she is a woman of color, a pair of old bachelors like you and I may be excused for guessing that it is the wife, quite as much as the health, that sends him back to roving J.
~ Jonathan Swift
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.
~ Douglas Adams
My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber," he muttered to himself, "and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.
~ Douglas Adams
My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber," he muttered to himself, "and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes." Nevertheless
~ Douglas Adams
Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.
~ Edith Wharton
The only employees in the building who had been excused where those who had hall monitoring duty.
~ Denise Swanson
God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, Can I be excused the Crucifixion? No!
~ Alan Bennett
Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre.
~ Joel Edgerton
A young girl is excused for not being able to give reasons, they say she lives in her feelings. It is different with me. Generally, I have so many and usually mutually contradictory reasons that, for that reason, it is impossible for me to give reasons.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.
~ Edith Wharton
Yes," he said in return, and his voice cracked somewhat. "Yes, Comrade General Secretary." "And now," Stalin said, "let's have some soup, shall we?" Beria's heart sank. He still had too much work to do. "Oh, not you, Beria," the Vozhd said. "You are excused. Get the hell out of here and go do your job for a change. No soup for you.
~ John Birmingham
People look at me as an exotic person, which is great, because whatever Hollywood is, it seems very dogmatic to me, especially when you're a woman. But I always get excused because I'm German.
~ Franka Potente
I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.
~ John Paul Jones
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.
~ Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
We should have been excused from lugging a body: the burden of the self is enough.
~ Emil M. Cioran
I excused myself and tracked down Dr. W, the senior surgeon on duty.
~ Atul Gawande
I believe that the president should be excused from some of the burdens of ordinary citizenship while serving in office. This is not something I necessarily thought in the 1980s or 1990s. Like many Americans at that time, I believed that the president should be required to shoulder the same obligations that we all carry.
~ Brett Kavanaugh
I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.
~ Ben Bradlee
We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying.
~ Kent Beck
The policy are to be commended.' Aschenbach replied, and after a brief exchange of meteorological observations the manager excused himself.
~ Thomas Mann
I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.
~ Charles Darwin
This is why she doesn't put much stock in so-called secrets, or the meaningfulness of untold recollections that become, in their airtight echo chambers, the supposed stuff of secrets. They are only a way to become retrospectively enraged at someone else so that your own adult weaknesses can be tidily excused.
~ Heidi Julavits
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
~ Taryn Manning