Excuse Quotes - page 27

When conservatives and reactionaries refer to "Nature” to justify their assertions about the inferiority of woman, the lesser capacities of dark races, the innate intelligence of children from the upper social strata, and the sickness of homosexuality, they have usurped naturalism. It remains the task of critique to refute this. Ultimately critique must at least be able to show that what "Nature” gives us has to be recognized as neutral and nontendentious so that every value judgment and every tendency can without doubt be understood as a cultural phenomenon. Even if Rousseau's "good Nature” has been discredited, he has at least taught us not to accept "bad Nature” as an excuse for social oppression. (Peter Sloterdijk)
Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations. View quote
Mitt Romney
An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before. View quote
Brandon Sanderson
Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses. View quote
Terry Pratchett
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer? View quote
Terry Pratchett
I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race. View quote
James Weldon Johnson
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can. View quote
Ashleigh Brilliant
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over. View quote
Dick Cheney
Cricket is no excuse for ignorance. View quote
Barry Perowne
People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends. (Kurt Vonnegut)
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve. View quote
Herman Cain
A good yarn, an offbeat tale, a bloodcurdling ghost story -- they need no explanation or excuse for the telling! View quote
C.B. Colby
If Abu Musab Zarqawi's camps in Iraq are connected to al-Qaeda, why didn't the U. S. already attack them as part of the War on Terrorism after September 11, 2001? It's as if the U. S. preserved Ansar al-Islam for later use for leverage over Iraq and an excuse for an invasion. View quote
Carl Romanelli
Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities. View quote
Alan Cohen
A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse. View quote
Stephen Dooley, Jr.
Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day. View quote
Christopher Hampton
What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
My guys, my colleagues didn't stand up with me. And I can't make any excuse for them. Had we shown any amount of solidarity, if the superstars had stood up and said 'We're with Curt Flood,' if the superstars had walked into the courtroom in New York and made their presence known, I think that the owners would have gotten the message very clearly and given me a chance to win that case. View quote
Curt Flood
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. (Arthur Ashe)
You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. View quote
John Perry Barlow
Excuse me while I barf in Larry Wall's general direction. View quote
Erik Naggum
Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials. View quote
Florence King
[While filming 'Ashes to Ashes'] So we're on the beach shooting this scene with a giant bulldozer. The camera was on a very long lens. [The camera is along way away, but the artist fills the frame] In this video I'm dressed from head to toe in a clown suit. Why not. I hear playback and the music starts. So off I go, I start singing and walking, but as soon as I do this old geezer with an old dog walk right between me and the camera... Well, knowing this is gonna take a while I walked past the old guy and sat next to camera in my full costume waiting for him to pass. As he is walking by camera the director said, excuse me Mr do you know who this is? The old guy looks at me from bottom to top and looks back to the director and said... "Of course I do!!!! its some cunt in a clown suit." View quote
David Bowie