Excusing Quotes

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. (Molière)
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane. View quote
Michael Chertoff
Until George W. Bush, no American president -- not even Franklin Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson -- actually risked his presidency on the premise that Jefferson might be right. But this gambler from Texas has bet his place in history on the proposition, as he stated in a speech in March, that decades of American presidents' excusing and accommodating tyranny, in the pursuit of stability in the Middle East inflamed the hatred of the fanatics who piloted the planes into the twin towers on Sept. 11. If democracy plants itself in Iraq and spreads throughout the Middle East, Bush will be remembered as a plain-speaking visionary. View quote
Michael Ignatieff
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. View quote
William Shakespeare
If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing. View quote
James Altucher
I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares. View quote
Hill Harper
In the past, I've been a bit diffident about my own albums, almost excusing them for some reason, even though deep down I felt strongly about them. View quote
Jesse Harris
French are what they are without excusing themselves to be. View quote
Simon Baker
We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere. View quote
Elizabeth Berkley
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it. (Margaret Atwood)
Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice. View quote
N.T. Wright
The major enemy of poker players is their rationalizations for their failures to think....Many poor players evade thinking by letting their minds sink into irrational fogs. Their belief in luck short-circuits their minds by excusing them from their responsibility to think. Belief in luck is a great mystical rationalization for the refusal to think. View quote
Frank R. Wallace
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The other manner of Regard was shewed inward: and that was more highly and all one. For the life and the virtue that we have in the lower part is of the higher, and it cometh down to us of the Natural love of the Self, by grace. Atwix the one and the other there is right nought: for it is all one love. Which one blessed love hath now, in us, double working: for in the lower part are pains and passions, mercies and forgiveness, and such other that are profitable; but in the higher part are none of these, but all one high love and marvellous joy: in which joy all pains are highly restored. And in this our Lord showed not only our Excusing, but the worshipful nobility that He shall bring us to, turning all our blame into endless worship. View quote
Julian of Norwich
The question of why the truth is now under such assault may well be for historians to determine. But for those who cherish American constitutional democracy, what matters is the effect on America and her people and her standing in an increasingly unstable world - made all the more unstable by these very fabrications. What matters is the daily disassembling of our democratic institutions. We are a mature democracy - it is well past time that we stop excusing or ignoring - or worse, endorsing - these attacks on the truth. For if we compromise the truth for the sake of our politics, we are lost. View quote
Jeff Flake