Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses

Whoever it was, there's no excuse for that behavior. I'm sure it's frustration. But there's still no excuse.

Patricia McKillip

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

I think Purdue played really well. There weren't any holes in their lineup. It was indoors, it was fast and it was on their home court. All excuses aside, we just couldn't finish the matches.

I think others might suggest he just ran out of excuses why he hasn't gone

Jarome Iginla

We'll try to have the same mindset for Game 2 as we did Game 1. Now hopefully all the excuses are gone and we can keep going.

We played well, and one thing we've been working on is playing well as a team. We've started picking it up a little bit. The kids have stopped making excuses and have done a good job of picking it up." ()

Kyle Calder

We had all the momentum going into the third, and then we sat back. There's no excuse for that.

Landon Donovan

We've had excuses for part of the year, but we don't have excuses now. This is a game we need to win, period.

Using that as an excuse is not true.

Jermaine Dye

We haven't seen live pitching in a while, not (seen) any game situations. But no excuses.

George Canyon

You have to excuse me - I have something in my eye,

We were more ready to play the second game. There wasn't any excuse for losing the first game.

We were a little leg-tired. That's not an excuse. We should have overcome that.

We've got no excuses ? we just have to remember that we are a better team than that.

To use that as an excuse to scuttle the program would undermine the integrity and security of the country.

Tradition can be an excuse for staying the same, or for changing.

Danny Devito

Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.

Dan Davis

You don't have to make excuses for God.

Chuck Palahniuk

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all.

Steve Aoki

The haters and the trolls have always used me as an excuse to make fun of something that is out of the ordinary, something that doesn't necessarily make sense to them. For whatever reason, I have always been a target that people love to attack.

Benjamin Jowett

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Utah Phillips

Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

Christopher McCandless

Don´t hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.

Ira Glass

Any journalist who doesn't stick to the day's news is sort of part journalist, part anthropologist. Once the excuse for the story stops being - it happened today - then you're square right in the other territory of journalism, which is just straight up documenting of how we live, and what we think of each other.

a poor excuse of a priest, I'll tell you that.

Alexander Pope

An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

Teflon Tony is dead. Forget all the excuses ... the vote was a turning point.

Eddy Curry

Sometimes they will look away from me. When I do get the ball, I try to make something happen so they don't have an excuse not to throw me the ball.

Sean White

Right now we have a lot of inexperience at the plate. We have had a lot of injuries, and we aren't going to start using that as an excuse. People aren't hitting in positions that they are used to. We just need to be patient at the plate.

John Leech

Continually finding excuses for taking a small glass of brandy and water.

At least we can look at them, and we shouldn't have any excuses.