Excuse Quotes

• "Which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot." "No," Delia said, over her shoulder. "Actually, you're not. Just excuse yourself as politely as possible, and get out of arm's reach." Kristy looked at me, shaking her head. "Stomp them." she said, under her breath. "Really."

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Behavior
  • Rights
  • Feet

• Yeah, there were (defensive) breakdowns but there were also variables into having those breakdowns. I think a lot of the mistakes that we made are definitely preventable, but they're a lapse of mental awareness and that happens with fatigue. I'm not trying to make excuses. This is just the reality of the situation.

  

  Gerry Fleming
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Reality

• If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it

  

  George Foreman
  • Want
  • Behinds
  • Excuse

• As opposed to living the rich life and consuming as much as possible, people have to take a step back. Instead of buying the biggest diamond or having 18 cars, do other things. Buying the biggest thing is outdated and there is no excuse for it.

  

  Andrew Ference
  • Rich
  • Excuse
  • Buying

• And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.

  

  Catherine of Genoa
  • Sin
  • Goodness
  • Infinite

• Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses

  

  Francis Chan
  • Jesus
  • Said
  • Disciple

• How do you forget that someone else is another person? No matter who they are. I don't think that's an excuse.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Matter
  • Forget
  • Excuse

• A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

  

  Sanya Richards-Ross
  • Trying
  • Sports
  • Seems

• Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Animal
  • Critics
  • Compare

• I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • People
  • Failure
  • Regret

• When you use an excuse for not accomplishing something or not completing a project, you are actually giving power to someone or something outside of yourself. Regardless of what happens today, absolutely refuse to use an excuse to get off the hook.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Project
  • Refuse
  • Regardless

• The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Vision
  • Behavior
  • Resentment

• God never excuses sin. And He is always consistent with that ethic. Whenever we start to question whether God really hates sin, we have only to think of the cross, where His Son was tortured, mocked, and beaten because of sin. Our sin

  

  Francis Chan
  • Hate
  • Son
  • Sin

• Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.

  

  Simon Travaglia
  • Names
  • Actions
  • Excuse

• Sometimes they will look away from me. When I do get the ball, I try to make something happen so they don't have an excuse not to throw me the ball.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Happens
  • Ball
  • Excuse

• There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

  

  William Morris
  • Beautiful
  • Design
  • Excuse

• 'If only' is the excuse of the loser; 'I can' is the affirmation of the winner.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Winner
  • Loser
  • Affirmation

• We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Believe
  • Needs
  • Excuse

• Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.

  

  Russell Baker
  • People
  • Mind
  • Brain

• Use whatever excuse you can to vibrate in harmony with those things you've been saying you want. And when you do, those things that are a vibrational equivalent flow into your experience in abundance. Not because you deserve it, not because you've earned it, but because it's the natural consequence of the Law of Attraction. That which is like unto itself is drawn.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Morning

• But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

  

  Brom
  • Need
  • Murder
  • Excuse

• The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan Ginsberg's period. Excuse me but that was where it was at. The hippies, I'm afraid, don't know what's happening.

  

  David Bowie
  • Excuse
  • Revolutionary
  • Hippie

• Her hair gives dawn it's fire, her eyes give dusk her soul" He knew how to use his voice to melt a girl's heart, to make a girl want to believe. I steeled myself against the seductive words. "Excuse me?" "It's a line of poetry describing a beautiful girl, one who doesn't seem to know it.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Success never needs an excuse.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Success
  • Needs
  • Excuse

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