Excuse Quotes

You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it?
Howie Carr

Long, Problem, Energy

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

Women, Men, Death

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
Sherwood Boehlert

Give, Another, Vote

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
C. S. Forester

Work, Home, Him

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.
Mary Garden

Others, Writer, Illness

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
James Laughlin

Good, Poetry, American

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
Alexander Alekhine

Time, Mind, Drunk

Excuse me for harrowing you with this picture of war. But I am very full of it at present.
Edward Wadsworth

War, Picture, Present

Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.
Hale Irwin

Tired, Feeling, Energy

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
Samuel E. Morison

Off, Balance, Changes

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

Good, Pain, Remember

When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!
David Blunkett

Good, Exercise, Close

Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun.
John Glover

Earth, Hands, Pun

The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.
Jon Corzine

Again, Once, Year

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.
Bill Nelson

War, Country, National

Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you're Uncle Vernon?' I said: 'Get a grip. It's 11:30 at night - what's he doing out of bed? I'm not here to entertain people at this time of night.
Richard Griffiths

Time, Mind, Night

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
Vince Neil

Life, Faith, God

He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse.
Terence Fisher

Great, Him, Succeed

Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.
Henri Rousseau

Poor, Late, Candle

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.
Brendan Fehr

Character, Idiot, Acting

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Alfred Jarry

Music, Might, Force

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.
Michael Madsen

Great, Acting, Kids

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.
Sanya Richards-Ross

Truth, Try, Tell

The process of putting the DVD and the CD together was great fun, because it provided a good excuse for the four of us to make time to get together again. I am especially pleased with the end result of these two projects.
Dave Blood

Time, Good, Great

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an 'excuse me'. Typical.
William E. Geist

Past, Number, Wings

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.
Stephen R. Donaldson

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
Charles Lederer

Life, Knowledge, Important

We need to get some people in here. There's no passion out there. There's always an excuse. Nobody wants to step up and be a pro.
Jeff Malone

Passion, Here, Step

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