#excuse

The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#adequate #administration #again #because #ensure

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment. ↗

— David Frum

#economic #economic issues #environment #environmental #environmental issue

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical. ↗

— William E. Geist

#joseph #mary #me #much #number

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#excuse #generally #gives #got #gratuitous

Excuse me while I kiss the sky. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#i #kiss #me #sky #while

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#audience #comes #excuse #force #merely

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#concept #days #delusions #depression #excuse

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#boring #boring people #everything #excuse #i

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#back #call #coping #could #drank

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#crime #despicable #did #does #excuse