In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.

Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

I don't believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will.

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

Once I stopped with the excuses, my life has changed. There's no reason for me to lose any more.

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.

Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.

Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

The difference between trying and doing is one leads to success, while the other leads to excuses.

It's amazing as women how many excuses we make when a guy doesn't call or text. It's unbelievable.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Holidays are reflection time and I always take 'Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting', by Lynn Grabhorn.

Since the age of 14, I have littered - excuse me, adorned - the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.

If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.

If you're serious about changing your life, you'll find a way. If you're not, you'll find an excuse.

I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.

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

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.

I'm going to live until I die, and everything in between is just another excuse to eat peanut butter.

Forgiveness doesn't excuse their actions. Forgiveness stops their actions from destroying your heart.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.

You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.

I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?

If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.

The food bank is something I've always supported because there's no excuse for anyone to go without food.

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