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Excuses Quotes (page 5)

Your colleague, Captain Grimes, has been convicted before me on evidence that leaves no possibility of his innocence - of a crime (I might almost call it a course of action) which I can neither understand nor excuse. I dare say I need not particularise. Evelyn Waugh
George Washington Carver quote: "Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have..."
Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. George Washington Carver
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse..."
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man is willing to find an excuse for being God's enemy he need never be at a loss. He who hath to find a fact may find some difficulty; but he who would forge a lie may sit at his own fireside and do it. Charles Spurgeon
Orlando was unaccountably disappointed. She had thought ofliterature all these years (her seclusion, her rank, her sex must beher excuse) as something wild as the wind, hot as fire, swift aslightning; something errant, incalculable, abrupt, and behold, literature was an elderly gentleman in a grey suit talking aboutduchesses. Virginia Woolf
Stephenie Meyer quote: "and now I don't have an excuse to break his face. I would..."
and now I don't have an excuse to break his face. I would have really enjoyed that, too. Stephenie Meyer
Philip Pullman quote: "Must is not the same as can, Lyra'. 'But if you must and you..."
Must is not the same as can, Lyra'. 'But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse! Philip Pullman
What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is. Mario Puzo
Trout did another thing which some people might have considered eccentric: he called mirrors leaks. It amused him to pretend that mirrors were holes between two universes. If he saw a child near a mirror, he might wag his finger at a child warningly, and say with great solemnity, "Don't get too near that leak. You wouldent want to wind up in the other universe, would you?"Sometimes somebody would say in his presence, "Excuse me, I have to take a leak." This was a way of saying that the... Kurt Vonnegut
[M]an is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. The Existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He will never agree that a sweeping passion is a ravaging torrent which fatally leads a man to certain acts and is therefore an excuse. He thinks that man is responsible for his passion. Jean-Paul Sartre
George Eliot quote: "Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by..."
Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions! George Eliot
Suzanne Collins quote: "Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us."
Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us. Suzanne Collins
I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement. Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked. J. K. Rowling
I didn't want it to be this way." "Yes, you did," she said, "because it is."I just want to be with someone normal," he said. "I just want to have a normal life."Excuse me," she said."You're a little crazy," he said. "You're too old to act the way you do. You've got to grow up. You've got to take care of yourdelf. I'm afraid for you. You can't think that people are going to take care of you all the time. Candace Bushnell

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