Excuse Quotes

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God.

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to play video games.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Better a bad excuse, than none at all.

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.

When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all.

However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.

There's no excuse for fur in this day and age.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.