Excuse Quotes
1674 Excuse quotes by 1175 unique authors
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
— Ned Vizzini
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You're excuses are so lame they're limping...
— Nora Roberts
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That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly…
— Paulo Coelho
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We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.
— Lauren Oliver
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He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.
— Brandon Sanderson
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You do know him, so that's a lame excuse." It was a lame excuse, but it was the best I had. "How do you really…
— Unknown Author
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Genius does not excuse evil.
— Rick Riordan
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There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the…
— Andy Stanley
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I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering "excuse me" the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless…
— Veronica Roth
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To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness.…
— Brené Brown
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There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.
— Kim Harrison
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Excuse me, Bane?" said Roderick Morgenstern. "Are you attending?" "I'm so sorry," Magnus said politely. "Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I…
— Cassandra Clare
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It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.
— John C. Maxwell
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And your excuse?' I asked. 'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said. I gave him a look. 'You're mad at him.I…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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What are these guys?" He whispered "Canadians," Percy said. Frank leaned away from him. "Excuse me?" "Uh, no offense," Percy said. "That's what Annabeth called…
— Rick Riordan
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There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in…
— Richard Paul Evans
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I see you're trying to distract me from the real point here," Magnus said instead. "You had a birthday - a perfect excuse for me…
— Cassandra Clare
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Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?
— Gayle Forman
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No excuses; those were just weak.
— Abbi Glines
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at…
— Veronica Roth
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My mother," he said, "has invited us to a ball." Elena pulled a blade from one of the butter-soft forearm sheaths that had been a…
— Nalini Singh
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I made my excuses and left, thinking, really, after a certain age, people are just going to do what they're going to do and you're…
— Helen Fielding
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When I look at him, I don't see the cowardly young man who sold me out to Jeanine Matthews, and i don't hear the excuses…
— Veronica Roth
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It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you…
— Helen Mirren
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Put your energies into creativity. Forget about anger as a problem, ignore it. Channelise your energy towards more creativity. Pour yourself into something that you…
— Rajneesh
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