Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late.… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress. — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
My hair is so scary that if you saw it walking down the street, you'd cross to the other side. This humidity… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll… — Carnie Wilson Copy Share Image
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And of course I'm a chauvinist, but it isn't my fault." "It isn't?" "No, Jack was born first and I share his… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Come on,” he droned, “I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We are often indifferent to our brethren who are distressed or upset, on the grounds that they are in this state through… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Energy and persistence conquer all things. He that is good for making excuses is… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses,… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image