Excuse Quotes

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.

When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all.

However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.

There's no excuse for fur in this day and age.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.

Better a bad excuse, than none at all.

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

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

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.