Excuse Quotes

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.

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.

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.

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it.

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

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.

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.