Excuse Quote by Helen Hayes

“Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.”

Helen Hayes

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

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In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

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The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we…

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“Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.”

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Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

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Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

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It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So…

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My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to…

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International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the…

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Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

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And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

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Dont leave without a reason, and then try to come back with an excuse.

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Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

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