Excuse Quote by L.E. Modesitt Jr

Beneath the excuse lies your destiny.

— Robert G. Allen

“The failure to remember is not a lie, although liars will often try to excuse their lies, once discovered, by claiming a memory failure.…

— Paul Ekman

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

— Malachy McCourt

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

— Don Marquis

“Except in a very few matches, usually with world-class performers, there is a point in every match (and in some cases it's right at…

— C. Terry Warner

“That was an explanation, not an excuse.”

— John Jakes

“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure…

— George Eliot

The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through…

— Oswald Chambers

In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching…

— Stephen Jay Gould

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

— James Q. Wilson

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

— Tony Campolo