Excuse Quotes
1674 Excuse quotes by 1175 unique authors
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The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts…
— Eustace Mullins
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Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.
— Jefferson Davis
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The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
— Amit Abraham
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I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can…
— Alice Miller
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Excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed.
— Ray Nagin
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Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no…
— John Selden
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Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our…
— Steven Pressfield
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Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
— Steven Pressfield
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Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could…
— Elizabeth Moon
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The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.
— Albert Reynolds
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Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.
— Edward Kennedy
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There is no excuse not to give two minutes today to intend your tomorrow.
— Rhonda Byrne
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When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary,…
— James Arthur Ray
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Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a…
— Brennan Manning
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Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I…
— C. Everett Koop
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The excuses we make destroy the results we deserve
— Robin Sharma
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Leaders don't make excuses. They create results
— Robin Sharma
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One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an…
— Mark Spitz
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If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with…
— H. L. Mencken
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I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it is. It's early…
— Mark Teixeira
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Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true -…
— Mia Love
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What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of…
— Jacques Attali
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