#excuse

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#enough #excuse #having #lazy #poor

God's only excuse is that he does not exist. ↗

— Stendhal

#excuse #exist #god #only

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#brotherly #destruction #excuse #insight #into

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#bad habits #break #excuses #habits #like

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back. ↗

— Junior Seau

#excuses #full #i #life #looking

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#apart #being #choices #democracy #excuses

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#excuse #excusing #fault #make #oftentimes

I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#carry #could #excuse #good #i

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#adds #brother #crime #does #excuse

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. ↗

— Nina Simone

#heroes #heroines #knowing #not knowing #people