Excuse Quotes · Page 23

My excuse for everything is that I grew up in Florida.

— Daniel Tosh

Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you…

— John Steinbeck

Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our…

— Stephen Batchelor

The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.

— Tony Robbins

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though,…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— William Arthur Ward

I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

— Jill Stein

I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they…

— Neil Sheehan

I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

— Tony Abbott

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a…

— James Weldon Johnson

Each day you're presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses,…

— Lewis Howes

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

— Jimmy Cannon

It's remarkable she [Venus Williams] plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back,…

— Serena Williams

Excuse me, but I’ve been to some of the toughest zones in the galaxy to get my targets. And I have never…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

— William Feather

However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged…

— Graham Greene

There was no sign of Jules. “Bad news,” said Elliot. “The man is sick. You’re going to have to settle for me.”…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

There's no excuse for having a mental or creative block in sound. You can just go out and collect things in the…

— Gary Rydstrom

Humans tend to segregate the world: enemies on one side, friends on the other. Friends are the people we know. Enemies are…

— Ilona Andrews

The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way…

— Chrissie Hynde

“Nowadays, you need a good excuse to go and to start talking to someone, as they say it... "You Found a stranger,…

— Deyth Banger

Sometimes people confuse contrivance and authenticity, and sometimes I think authenticity can get in the way of a good excuse to do…

— Johnny Marr

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

— Aldous Huxley

As children, women are encouraged to be "little ladies." Little ladies don't scream as vociferously as little boys, and they are chastised…

— Robin Lakoff

Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.

— James Patterson