Excuse Quotes - Page 17

• As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”

  Al Yankovic

  Wise, Men, Fools Day

  Al Yankovic @alyankovic, twitter.com. April 1, 2010.

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• No excuses. Just do the work.

  Shalane Flanagan

  No Excuses

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2013

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• History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.

  Mario Van Peebles

  Book, Land, Car

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• Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  Human Nature, Enjoyable, Brands

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• When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

  Barbara Cooper

  Regret, Night, Making Love

  "Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage". Book by Barbara Cooper, www.today.com. 2012.

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• The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.

  L. Neil Smith

  Government, Class, Important

  "Rule By Thieves: One Week in the American Kleptocracy" by John W. Whitehead, www.counterpunch.org. March 17, 2017.

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• Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

  Ralph Richardson

  No Excuses, Supreme Being

  "Fictional character: Supreme Being". "Time Bandits", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process.

  Bernie Sanders

  Government, Political, Movement

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• Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.

  Ben Shapiro

  Media, Political, President

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• There's no excuse to hit a woman... Ever. Not even in a movie role, because you might really like it. And then what?

  Terrence Howard

  Roles, Might, No Excuses

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• If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.

  Benjamin Carson

  People, Giving, Accepting

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• There are no excuses this time. Now it's up to women to step up and lead ourselves and our sisters through the threshold.

  Gloria Feldt

  Steps, No Excuses, Step Up

  Gloria Feldt (2012). “No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power”, p.21, Seal Press

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• In the middle of the last century there was a reason to go to war. This time around the war was a really bad idea and I think the only people that benefited from it were Halliburton and people that made money from it, but that's not an excuse to have a war. Killing American kids so Halliburton can make money is not a righteous reason to go to war.

  Anthony Kiedis

  War, Kids, Thinking

  "Chili Pepper says Obama is Red Hot" by Sharief Ali, www.politico.com. October 31, 2008.

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• Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

  Tony Snow

  Fall, Government, People

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• The principle of allegiance to the Constitution is basic to our freedom....when you see government invading any of these realms of freedom which we have under our Constitution, you will know that they are putting shackles on your liberty, and that tyranny is creeping upon you, ...no matter what the reason and excuse therefore may be.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Government, Liberty, Principles

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• An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.

  Robin Sharma

  Greatness, Self, Tools

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 23, 2013

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• The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.

  Thomas Sowell

  Attitude, Self, White

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• The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable.
  It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang.
  Sometimes we expect too much instead of practicing enough
  or receiving in us just the right answer.
  You, the Staggering Answer

  Buddy Wakefield

  Bangs, Receiving, Answers

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• We need to know the facts, in order to tell the politicians, "Excuse me, I don't want you to use my money on building a wall that is not going to solve any problems. We have to go this direction instead."

  Demian Bichir

  Wall, Order, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes to fascistic leftist behavior, our mainstream media overlooks and excuses it - while conservatives are demonized and blamed for every dead sparrow that falls from the sky.

  Jamie Glazov

  Wall, Fall, Media

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• Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect it. And that's happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in this country devoted to making Americans think there's an enemy within.

  Reza Aslan

  Country, Thinking, Enemy

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• The fear of death has been raised too much and set up on high, especially by preachers, like the brazen serpent in the wilderness over the heads of the Israelites; but not with so good excuse as that symbol had, for this fear has not been curative, I think, nor made into pleasant or graceful shape, but rather a horrid spectacle, to affright people. For that men can be frightened into piety has been one of the legacies of religion which barbarous ages have bequeathed us plentifully.

  James Vila Blake

  Men, Thinking, People

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• What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

  Roger von Oech

  Way

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• The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Imagination, Truth Is

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• Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Numbers

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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