Excuse Quotes
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde -
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.
Aristotle -
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington -
Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted.
A. R. Bernard -
You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There's no excuse for not.
Ben Affleck -
Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
Oscar Wilde -
I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
K. A. Applegate
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The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.
Lou Holtz -
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.
Camille Claudel -
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare -
I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.
Stephen R. Donaldson -
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
Arthur Ashe
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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
Tavi Gevinson -
When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'
Venus Williams -
Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.
John Travolta -
You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.
Camille Claudel -
Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude.
Jean Chretien -
Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service... I mean, there's no use throwin' a TV set out the window for the sake of throwin' a TV set out the window. But if you get a lousy picture then you have an excuse
Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
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You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
Brian Tracy -
Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.
Marianne Williamson -
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
Oscar Wilde -
Those guys were no better than us, I don't care what anyone says. But they wanted it more than us, no excuse. My biggest thing is, we've got to get a leader on offense. Every team in the top 10, they've got a big-play guy on offense. We've got to find one before it's too late.
Darnell Dockett