We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling English Writer More Rudyard Kipling Quotes 3
Schools have become soda and junk food superstores, ... There is no excuse they should continue to be part of this problem. Harold Goldstein More Harold Goldstein Quotes 2
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. Pope John Paul II Polish Clergyman More Pope John Paul II Quotes 1
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Milan Kundera Czechoslovakian Writer More Milan Kundera Quotes 1
God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse. Plutarch Ancient Greek Biographer More Plutarch Quotes 1
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. George Washington American President More George Washington Quotes 1
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. William Shakespeare English Dramatist More William Shakespeare Quotes 0
I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people. Neil Sheehan American Journalist More Neil Sheehan Quotes 0
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. Percy Bysshe Shelley English Poet More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes 0
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. Ida B. Wells American Activist More Ida B. Wells Quotes 0
As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark. Deryck Whibley Canadian Musician More Deryck Whibley Quotes 0
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together. Edmund White American Novelist More Edmund White Quotes 0
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. Nina Simone American Musician More Nina Simone Quotes 0
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian Author More Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes 0
Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did. Steven Spielberg American Director More Steven Spielberg Quotes 0
There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect. Kenneth Starr American Lawyer More Kenneth Starr Quotes 0
Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for halloween everyday. Gwen Stefani American Musician More Gwen Stefani Quotes 0
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. Gertrude Stein American Author More Gertrude Stein Quotes 0
One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while. Mark Spitz American Athlete More Mark Spitz Quotes 0
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. Thomas Szasz American Psychologist More Thomas Szasz Quotes 0
Invoking the safety clause seems to have been a mere excuse or ruse. It provides a basically untenable technical cover for a move with political significance. Achin Vanaik More Achin Vanaik Quotes 0
I don't really see [today's bad corporate news] as significant fundamental factors, I see it more as an excuse for short-term profit-taking. The correction we've seen is very small relative to the rally we've seen in the last few weeks. Adam Adelman More Adam Adelman Quotes 0