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Excuse me while I kiss the sky. -- Jimi Hendrix
Excuse the mess but we live here. -- Roseanne Barr
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. -- Rudyard Kipling
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. -- Florence Nightingale
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. -- Viggo Mortensen
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution. -- Joyce Meyer
Excuse me? I'm alive too. -- James Patterson
Excuse me, scary people. (Alix) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Excuses excuse us from fulfilling our potential. -- Rhonda Britten
Excuse the mess, but we live here. -- Roseanne Barr
The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain -- Emily Dickinson
Excuse me while I go bleach my face. -- Elle Casey
Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me. -- Saul Bellow
Excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable. -- Harry Behn
Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul? -- J. K. Rowling
I'm not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living. -- Flora Rheta Schreiber
Excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed. -- Ray Nagin
[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust. -- Dorothy Parker
Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody. -- Luciano Pavarotti
Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening. -- Joel Kinnaman
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. -- Henri Rousseau
Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow -- Megan McCafferty
Olivia: You didn't even know I was there! Harry: Excuse me, yes I did. -- Julia Quinn
Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time. -- Dennis Miller
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. -- Stephen Schwartz
Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said. -- Richard Brautigan
Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss. -- Blaise Pascal
Excuse me: I am homeless. I am gay. I have AIDS. I'm new in town. -- John Mulaney
Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me? -- Rick Riordan
Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time. -- Tom Petty
Yes I remember my sixteenth." Vitellius said "Wonderful omen! Happily chicken in my underpants." "Excuse me. -- Rick Riordan
Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread. -- Jeanne Calment
Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you. -- Robert M. Drake
Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself. -- Antonin Artaud
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth. -- E. M. Forster
I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done. -- Rick Riordan
Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself. -- Jewel
Excuse me you're a hell of a guy You know I really got a thing for American guys -- Nicki Minaj
[...]you know what they say about messengers, right"? Excuse me?" Too much bad news will get you shot."[...] -- J.R. Ward
Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me. -- Tamora Pierce
None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for. -- Joe Namath
Your pants are unseasonably bitch. I beg your pardon. Excuse me, madam, but you are sitting on my erection. -- Jarod Kintz
Schist," said an angry voice from the grass. Hazel raised her eyebrows. "Excuse me?" "Schist! Big pile of schist! -- Rick Riordan
Listen I'm the baddest in the school, the baddest in the game Excuse me honey but nobody's in my lane -- Nicki Minaj
Are you the cursed kid Nemesis mentioned?" Leo asked. "But you're a girl." "You're a girl," said the girl. "Excuse me? -- Rick Riordan
Excuse me if I feel skeptical,' I said. 'Coach's foot fell off. How exactly do you propose to cure that? Superglue? -- Carrie Harris
Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore. -- Pat Burns
Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so. -- Dorothy Parker
Excuse me, madam, but may I rub my erection up against your buttocks, because I mistakenly took Viagra thinking it was Vitamin C? -- Jarod Kintz
Excuse us for the news, You might not be amused; But did you know White comes from Black? No need to be confused. -- Chuck D
Excuse me for a moment, will ye. I think I have to talk to the river,' he said unsteadily and flopped over the side-rail. -- Ian Livingstone
Do tell. It might be entertaining to see who gets to you first." "Excuse me if entertaining you isn't at the top of my agenda. -- Nalini Singh
Never excuse yourself. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. -- Edward R. Murrow
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. -- Benjamin Franklin
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. -- George Washington
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. -- Jim Rohn
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. -- Thomas Szasz
I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse. -- Stephen R. Donaldson
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. -- Milan Kundera
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -- Benjamin Franklin
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. -- Ambrose Bierce
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. -- George Washington Carver
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. -- Henry Ward Beecher
People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses. -- Laura Schlessinger
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -- William Shakespeare
The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. -- Sarah Palin
You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself. -- Camille Claudel
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. -- Pope John Paul II
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. -- Jim Rohn
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. -- Milton Friedman
Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day. -- Gwen Stefani
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. -- William Arthur Ward
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. -- Jules Renard
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. -- Russell Baker
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength. -- George W. Bush
I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living. -- Alain de Botton
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. -- Tony Robbins
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. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that. -- Derek Jeter
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard! -- William Lloyd Garrison
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. -- Richard Dawkins
The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. -- Erica Jong
Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be. -- Jack Canfield
When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise! -- David Blunkett
I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet. -- Stephen Colbert
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. -- Bette Davis
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. -- Ida B. Wells
Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, he can do the craziest thing that nobody would do who's not in love. Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want. -- Josh Hutcherson
There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it. -- Louis C. K.
There's no excuse for rudeness. -- Tyra Banks
Genius does not excuse evil. -- Rick Riordan
Necessity is our quickest excuse. -- Benjamin Franklin
Success never needs an excuse. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
forgive what you can't excuse ... -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Faith is the fool's excuse. -- James Frey
Beauty is its own excuse. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Bad news is just an excuse. -- Neil Young
Youth is no excuse for sloppiness. -- Lisa Gardner
Win without boasting. Lose without excuse. -- Albert Payson Terhune
Love's an excuse to get hurt. -- Conor Oberst
Don't accept the excuse of complexity. -- Keith Rabois
Beneath the excuse lies your destiny. -- Robert G. Allen
Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity. -- Albert Einstein
Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty. -- Ned Vizzini
There's no excuse for the young... -- Nina Simone
Originality is no excuse for ignorance. -- Fred Brooks
Never give nor take an excuse. -- Florence Nightingale
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. -- Aesop
A lie is an excuse guarded -- Jonathan Swift
Human reason can excuse any evil. -- Veronica Roth
An excuse is a lie guarded. -- Jonathan Swift
Every vice has its excuse ready. -- Publilius Syrus
Poverty and War have no excuse. -- Vanna Bonta
Love is an excuse to be stupid -- Tyra Banks
Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness. -- Judith Martin
Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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