#excuse

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

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#every #every time #excuse #female #idleness

How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away. ↗

— Bill Copeland

#excuse #how #live #once #only

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.

#benefit #casually #curious #doing #doing the right thing

I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#excuses #haven #i #just #make

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#am #any #circumstances #cutting #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

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

— Mary Garden

#block #excuse #had #i #illness

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

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#constantly #died #excuses #father #great