Excuses Quotes
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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 -
Love her? You're devoid of all feeling. You lack common decency. You know how to express yourself. You always have just the right words. There's just one thing you haven't the slightest clue about: life itself. You're a craven coward, but a genius at evasions and excuses.
Ingmar Bergman
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We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
David Frum -
Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.
Matt Kemp -
It's not the time to look for excuses.
Rafael Nadal -
Teams that have lost a lot of games are dangerous teams and we knew that coming in. We just have no excuses. They outplayed us tonight.
Phil Jackson -
Don't fall in love with your own excuses.
Brian Tracy -
It takes guts to realize you screwed up and to then come clean without any excuses.
Brandon Webb
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When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.
Condoleezza Rice -
When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.
R. T. Kendall -
The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.
Albert Reynolds -
Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.
Bill Dixon -
Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.
Vaclav Havel -
One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.
Andrew Davies
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In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
C. S. Lewis -
It's really, really easy to make excuses as to why we can't go to the gym. If you can find time to sit in front of the TV for 45 minutes, you can find time to work out.
Jill Wagner -
There are only two kinds of employees that I've run across in 30 years. There are ones that get results, and ones that make excuses. If you're in that second camp, you're not going to like Dish.
Charlie Ergen -
I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.
Leon Redbone -
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
Brian Tracy -
You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.
Sarah Kay
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We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.
Lesli Linka Glatter -
If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.
Bruce Nauman -
Prentice: It's ridiculous. I'm a married man.Match: Marriage excuses no one the freaks' roll-call.
Joe Orton -
Sometimes we are much better at judging people based on how they treat everyone other than ourselves. We make a million excuses for why they treat us how they do.
Emily V. Gordon