Quotes by Excuse When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team. Orrin Woodward excuse team leader The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak. Orison Swett Marden excuse weak opportunity Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life Oscar Wilde failure excuse taste The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde useless-things excuse art All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles. Patricia A. McKillip excuse poor love-you I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time. Patrick Ness excuse dawn order I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain. Oscar Wilde puritan excuse mind I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits. Pete Waterman records excuse The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire. Peter McWilliams excuse ambition comfort Living in England has no such excuse: Philip Larkin excuse england home There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly. Philip Pullman excuse belief people Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse. Philip Pullman no-excuses excuse ifs It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more than an excuse for them. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos cry pleasure excuse So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard. Pliny the Younger produce excuse reader A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. Prince Philip equestrian horse excuse Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same. PZ Myers tangible excuse absence We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. Quintilian excuse sloth life When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away. R. T. Kendall excuse sin spirit It's not the time to look for excuses. Rafael Nadal excuse looks Now if you’ll excuse me, Death waits for no man. Except me. Rachel Vincent excuse waiting men «1112131415161718192021»
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