Excuse Quotes

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

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

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun.

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for halloween everyday.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it?

I'm not really in the excuse business.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

The process of putting the DVD and the CD together was great fun, because it provided a good excuse for the four of us to make time to get together again. I am especially pleased with the end result of these two projects.

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.