Excuse Quotes

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

We need to get some people in here. There's no passion out there. There's always an excuse. Nobody wants to step up and be a pro.

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

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.

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.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

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.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

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

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.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

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