#excuse

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#been #done #excuses #failures #greatest

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#hear #make #men #need #their

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#architecture #behind #believe #budget #city

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#classes #dipping #excuse #filming #got

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas. ↗

— Heather Mills

#excuse #full #gas #get #go

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#accepts #difficulty #excuse #never

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#excuses #hard #hard work #i #i believe

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#excuse #get #good #had #head

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#basically #even #excuse #existing #government

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. ↗

— Jules Renard

#down #excuse #free #giving #invitation