Excuse Quotes - page 2

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible. (Thomas à Kempis)
What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death? View quote
James Clavell
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector. View quote
Jacques Attali
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. View quote
Anthony Robbins
I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity. View quote
Chris Rock
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. View quote
Milton Friedman
Rhodora If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. View quote
John Selden
Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. View quote
Benjamin Jowett
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him. (Abraham Lincoln)
Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity. View quote
Albert Einstein
I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed. View quote
Ned Vizzini
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. View quote
Nina Simone
Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect it. And that's happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in this country devoted to making Americans think there's an enemy within. View quote
Reza Aslan
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for halloween everyday. View quote
Gwen Stefani
I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again. View quote
Charles de Lint
I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me. View quote
Camille Claudel
The Bible says all men are without excuse. Even those who are given no good reason to believe and many persuasive reasons to disbelieve have no excuse, because the ultimate reason they do not believe is that they have deliberately rejected God's Holy Spirit. View quote
William Lane Craig
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment. (Charlotte Brontë)
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. View quote
Shirin Ebadi
The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel, down to the roots of our being, their pressure and their sting. Whose hunger has ever been [sated] with the knowledge that he could not eat? View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded. View quote
Alexander Pope