Benedict of Nursia Quotes

The sleepy like to make excuses.

Benedict of Nursia

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• I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Done
  • Truth

• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Done
  • Job
  • Best

• It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Father
  • Sad

• Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Bad
  • Excuses

• Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Up
  • Why
  • Home

• I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Time
  • Me
  • Wear

• I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Hate
  • Disease
  • Excuses

• What is the reason that we find it so satisfactory to make excuses to ourselves-the only persons in the world to whom they must be altogether needless ?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • World
  • Excuses

• No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• I come up with the silliest excuses when it's time to work out. I'll be like, 'Oh no! Now I have to go and find some socks.'

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • People
  • Time
  • Progress

• We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Excuses

• There's no room for being disappointed or for excuses, 'Oh, I had four match points.'

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Excuses

• I grew up watching period dramas, as we all did in the 1980s and '90s - endless adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - and I loved them. But I never saw anyone like me in them, so I decided to find a story to erode the excuses for me not doing one.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Up
  • Period
  • Excuses

• A lot of times on our show, 'Shadowhunters,' we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black leather attire under the excuse that we're going to fight demons, but it's all part of the tone of the piece and the tone of the story.

  

  Katherine McNamara
  • Black
  • Sexy
  • Excuses

• I'm not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games.

  

  David Wells
  • Excuses

• When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Excuses

• Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying - at least among adults - is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying.

  

  Andrew Lansley
  • People
  • Environment
  • Exercise

• Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

  

  George Washington Carver
  • Habit
  • Excuses
  • Failures

• I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting, I take to the pen, and I write something I want to direct. And then, when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director, I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Responsibility
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. There is stuff that is blown up on the Internet that isn't hugely successful with the entire world, and vice versa. I don't put a tremendous amount of stock in it, but at the same time, you always want people to like what you're doing. Certainly, to have come from an Internet background, we want to stay faithful and have people be supportive and happy with what we're doing.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Man
  • Nowadays

• The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Men
  • Ends
  • Dignity

• The sleepy like to make excuses.

  

  Benedict of Nursia
  • Excuses
  • Sleepy