Excuses Quotes
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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks latenesses, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patchings to repair great rents in the quotidian.
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Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
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A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.
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Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.
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I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-" Lily: "Slipped out? It’s too late. I’ve made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You’ve chosen your way, I’ve chosen mine.
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You cannot make progress with excuses.
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It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
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Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.
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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.
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Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
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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.
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The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
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Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.
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I'm sorry that I haven't won the PGA Championship. That would be something that would have pleased me very much. I suppose when I look back, I have a lot of reasons and excuses for not having won the PGA.
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There's no room for being disappointed or for excuses, 'Oh, I had four match points.'
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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.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.
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I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.
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To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.
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I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.
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If the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
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Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.
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Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us.
