Excuse Quotes · Page 81

Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.

— Hosea Ballou

We're spending, on average, 27 minutes a day cooking and about four minutes cleaning up, so basically about a half hour. Any…

— Michael Pollan

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

— Robert Anthony

If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.

— Jeff Wall

When we're trying to form and keep habits, we often search - even unconsciously - for loopholes. We look for justifications that…

— Gretchen Rubin

I've gone to skin doctors and they'll say to you, 'We should remove this because it's pre-cancerous,' and I'll say, 'Explain pre-cancerous…

— George Hamilton

A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up.…

— Anonymous

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay…

— Jackson Katz

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their…

— Greg Ginn

I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as…

— Michael Stipe

I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're…

— Kevin michael

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.

— Henry Paulson

I fear that by gaining a limit, we'll lose an excuse.

— Romeo LeBlanc

KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the…

— Bruce Friedrich

The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is…

— A. A. Gill

What's up, Hachi?" "Someone......Just slipped through my force-field." "!!!" "A soul reaper?" "No. The Hachigyo Sogai (Twin Cliffs) I set is an…

— Tite Kubo

I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of…

— Geoff Dyer

We shouldn’t use our own upset as an excuse for not helping.

— Marianne Williamson

A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.

— Roberto Alomar

If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

— Thomas Hobbes

Once you begin to explain or excuse...

— James Earl Jones

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

— Andrew Lansley

Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple buisness of planning a war," he said. -Baron…

— John Flanagan