Excuse Quotes

The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.

~ R.d. Ronald

You are the only author of the story of your life. 'Fate' is just an excuse for all of your wrong decisions.

~ Adwitiya Borah

To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

For how long are you going to continue making excuses? When have you ever solved anything through excuses?

~ Hafiz

Nick leans down and kisses my eyelids. “Loving you, Zara, is a full-time job. It’s a great job, don’t get me wrong. It’s the best job in the universe. But it is not easy, because you tend to . . .”“Get hurt?” Betty suggests. “Find trouble? Pass out? Break arms?”“All of the above.” Nick laughs.My hand finds Nick’s wrist and I grab onto its thickness. “You know, I’m the patient here. Where’s the bedside manner? Where’s the sympathy?”“Zara, sympathy is just a good excuse to buy greeting cards and make sorry eyes and secretly gloat over how glad you are that you aren’t the person whose crap is hanging out there for the world to see,” Betty says.

~ Carrie Jones

Time is an excuse to delay.

~ Amitav Chowdhury

Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights.But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora.To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain.What's your excuse?

~ Vera Nazarian

Life is ironic. Some people use their terrible childhood as an excuse of their unfortunate rest of the life… while others create a masterpiece out of their terrible childhood, they create a story loved by the entire world.

~ Nino Varsimashvili

When people say they're too busy, ask them If they'll have time to die, and see If dead's gonna give a damn.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I don’t make excuses, so don’t make excuses for me. When I’m being an ass, it’s because I have one.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Don’t make excuses, accept responsibility. You must take responsibility for how you respond to everything that happens in your life, whether you cause it or not. Making excuses is a weak response!

~ Michelle Word Hollis

What cannot be done today, will not be done tomorrow. We will find bigger excuses!

~ Harrish Sairaman

Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.

~ Joan Lowery Nixon

Nowadays, you need a good excuse to go and to start talking to someone, as they say it... You Found a stranger, now you are in real danger.

~ Deyth Banger

Our politicians always show lame excuse to defend their cripple decisions.

~ Munia Khan

How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse.

~ Norman Mailer

I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie.

~ Mitch Albom

It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more than an excuse for them.

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force us to think inTherefore threatening ways?

~ William Zinsser

She's not ashamed of loving, although those she's loved are few in number; it was/is sweet and true. She's only ashamed she used love as an excuse.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I was wrong about everything, please excuse me!

~ Deyth Banger

It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.

~ Francis Chan

There are only do and don’t, can or can’t is just an excuse.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

~ Ken Starr

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There's no excuse for fur in this day and age.

~ Stella Mccartney

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

~ Irene Peter