Excuse Quotes - Page 32

• Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs in your house with your child. The blood of my parents flowed from their bodies through the floorboards and drenched me while I lay in terror of being torn apart by them. I was only a year older than your child when it happened. My parents gave their lives for mine and I watched as they gave them. So you’ll have to excuse me if I have a hard time thinking good of any animal except those who are dead or caged. (Angelia)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Hard Times, Animal

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• Angel raised her hand. "Excuse me. What does LTC stand for?" She blinked innocently. "Loving Tender Care?"Gazzy suggested.If our instructor had had lasers for eyes, he would have sliced Gazzy in half. "Lieutenant colonel," he sputtered.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Angel, Hands

  James Patterson (2009). “Maximum Ride: Max”, p.136, Random House

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• Because it gives him and excuse to be around her--without making it look like he gave in first. That way, he can still seem manly." "That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly. "Guys do ridiculous things for love.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Giving, Guy

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy Complete Series”, p.1341, Penguin UK

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• Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped. "Just what?" the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost fallen from the palace wall and that Costis had seen him manifestly saved by the God of Thieves. The king smiled. "Cat got your tongue?" "Your Majesty, you are drunk," Costis pleaded. "I am. What's your excuse?

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Wall, Cat

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• Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Patience Is A Virtue, Pot, Tees

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• Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Destiny, Lame, Loser

  Cecily von Ziegesar (2012). “Gossip Girl 3: All I Want is Everything”, p.5, A&C Black

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• [about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queue­jumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the Post Office, people tut. Or sometimes they say, “Excuse me, I was here first.” They don't say, “You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.” That would be a bit strong.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Strong, Jumping

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• Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me?

  Rick Riordan

  Tattoo, Tongue, Brilliant

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I’m not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living.

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Space, Fit, Excuse Me

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

  David Levithan

  Knowing Who You Are, Trying, Want

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.147, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's nothing else you require I must be going" or "I'm sorry but I'm going to have to ask you to leave, please" or even "excuse me but I believe you have mistaken my home for your own and my valuable belongings for yours and I must ask you to return the items in question to me and leave my home after untying me from this chair, as I'm unable to do it myself, if it's not too much trouble.

  Daniel Handler

  Sorry, Believe, Home

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• Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor to glare at the two of them. "Excuse me," he said, "but when did my lab become appropriate for snogging?" "What's snogging?" Shane asked. "Ridiculous displays of inappropriate affection in front of me. Roughly translated. And what are you doing here?

  Rachel Caine

  Book, Two, Bangs

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.36, Allison & Busby

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• The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.

  John le Carre

  Littles, Doing Nothing, Facts

  John le Carre (2008). “A Most Wanted Man”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.

  Rachel Caine

  Squares, Scotland, Titles

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.144, Penguin

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• She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality.

  Julia Quinn

  Girl, Depressing, Knowing

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• Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Butterfly, Mom And Daughter

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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• Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights. But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora. To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain. What's your excuse?

  Vera Nazarian

  Beautiful, Christmas, Running

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• Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.

  Leonard Cohen

  Love Is, Fire, World

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• By the time we have our fifth and sixth you'll be a pro." Kane teased. He nuzzled Sebastien head. " Do you hear that, son ? You're our experiment, so you'll have all sorts of excuses to do very naughty things.

  Christine Feehan

  Son, Naughty, Fifth

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• Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

  John Brunner

  Trouble, Explaining, Bother

  John Brunner (2014). “Children of the Thunder”, p.187, Open Road Media

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• Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

  Benjamin Carson

  Inspirational, Success, Failure

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• I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Done, Hello

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• The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Father, Tired, Air

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• The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Beautiful, Real, Men

  "Shards of Honor". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986.

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