#excuse

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#chances #changes #enthusiasm #excuse #going

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#every #excuse #fact #nothing #problem

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#behaviour #behind #bully #connected #coward

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

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. ↗

— Quintilian

#excuse #our #pretext #sloth #under

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

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#clinton #excused #good #i #journalists

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore. ↗

— Goran Ivanisevic

#because #court #excuses #find #i

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#events #excuse #explain #grounds #indulge

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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