Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.
You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other?
I think the craziest thing I heard, and this guy's not even nominated, he's from Texas. . . he said there's no reason that women shouldn't carry a stillborn baby to term, and that it's an excuse to have an abortion if she doesn't want to. She should just let nature take its course from start to finish. Literally forcing birth of a fetus that died in the womb.
There is no waste of time like making excuses.
Don't let where you are be an excuse not to grow.
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
Beauty is its own excuse.
Forgiveness doesn't excuse their actions. Forgiveness stops their actions from destroying your heart.
Excuse me, Bane?" said Roderick Morgenstern. "Are you attending?" "I'm so sorry," Magnus said politely. "Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.
Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them. Indeed, I have reason to suspect myself on this head; and each year, as the tax-gatherer comes round, I find myself disposed to review the acts and position of the general and State governments, and the spirit of the people, to discover a pretext for conformity.
Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
Excuse me, but aren't boys forbidden on this floor?' Macey said on our way to the suite. 'That's the advantage of being the only boy,' he (Zach) said. 'No one actually comes right out and makes rules like that.
Play to your strengths. " "I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself. "Excuse me," growled Moody, "you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them. Think now. What are you best at?
I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.
Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.
Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.
As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.
I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.
If you're an asshole, you have an excuse for being an asshole because you're a junkie. But then once you give up the drugs, and you're still an asshole, that's problematic.