#excuse

People make up so many excuses why they couldn't call you. A real friend would find every reason in the world to call you. ↗

— Bianca Frazier

#busy-people #excuses #no-call #real-friends #business

We need to get some people in here. There's no passion out there. There's always an excuse. Nobody wants to step up and be a pro. ↗

— Jeff Malone

#excuse #get #here #need #nobody

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed," he said. "And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses." "Excuses, eh?" Well, if this ain't cynicism, what is?" Erens snorted. "Yes, excuses," he said, with what Erens thought might just have been a trace of bitterness. "I strongly suspect the things people believe in are usually just what they instinctively feel is right; the excuses, the justifications, the things you're supposed to argue about, come later. They're the least important part of the belief. That's why you can destroy them, win an argument, prove the other person wrong, and still they believe what they did in the first place." He looked at Erens. "You've attacked the wrong thing. ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#belief #erens #excuses #instinct #justifications

We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#blame #cowardice #dreams #excuses #follow-your-dreams

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confronting-problems #degrading #demeaning #equal #equality

For every forward action, there is an equally important forward reaction. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#no-excuses #reaction #equality

We made love like a half a minute. I brought the thirty seconds, and she provided the excuse as to why she didn’t have enough time to have sex with me.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#funny #humor #love #relationships #sex

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#pretext #self-delusion #money

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#justification #change

Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out. ↗

— Watsuki Nobuhiro

#excuses #manga #rurouni-kenshin #cowardice