Excuse Quotes - Page 38

• Love is an excuse to be stupid

  Tyra Banks

  Stupid, Love Is

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• I didn't want it to be this way." "Yes, you did," she said, "because it is." "I just want to be with someone normal," he said. "I just want to have a normal life." "Excuse me," she said. "You're a little crazy," he said. "You're too old to act the way you do. You've got to grow up. You've got to take care of yourdelf. I'm afraid for you. You can't think that people are going to take care of you all the time.

  Candace Bushnell

  Growing Up, Crazy, Thinking

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• Cammie's going to be mad she missed this," Macey said to fill the silence. "Excuse me?" Hale asked. "Nothing." She shook her head. "I just...I have a friend who really likes air vents. And dumbwaiter shafts. And laundry chutes. Of course, the last time I was in a laundry chute, Cammie and I fell about a dozen stories..." "well, that sounds like fun." "it was either that or get kidnapped by terrorists, so I guess we got of easy.

  Ally Carter

  Fun, Air, Mad

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• You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Mistake, Thinking

  "Happy Death".

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• You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you.

  Kiersten White

  Mean, Names, Like You

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• Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

  Ned Vizzini

  No Excuses, Cruelty, Misfortunes

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• You're excuses are so lame they're limping.

  Nora Roberts

  Lame, Limping

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.713, Penguin

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• That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Love You, Men

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.4, Booklassic

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• We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.

  Lauren Oliver

  Past, Self, Killers

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.761, Hachette UK

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• He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Insanity, No Excuses, Behavior

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.847, Macmillan

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• You do know him, so that's a lame excuse." It was a lame excuse, but it was the best I had. "How do you really ever truly know someone?" Brit smacked her hands to her cheeks and she shook her head. "He's not a serial killer." "Speaking of serial killers, everyone thought Ted Bundy was a really charming, handsome man. And look how he turned out. Psycho." Jacob stared at me. "He's not Ted Bundy.

  J. Lynn

  Men, Hands, Ted Bundy

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• Genius does not excuse evil.

  Rick Riordan

  Evil, Doe, Genius

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.240, Penguin UK

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• There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You”, p.66, Multnomah

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• To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a regular basis in order to attend to the other selves in my vicinity. It means living so that "I'm only human" does not become an excuse for anything. It means receiving the human condition as blessing and not curse, in all its achingly frail and redemptive reality.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Mean, Blessing

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• There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

  Kim Harrison

  White, Black, Needs

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• I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering "excuse me" the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless has made me noticable.

  Veronica Roth

  Needs, Elbows, Crowds

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• Excuse me, Bane?" said Roderick Morgenstern. "Are you attending?" "I'm so sorry," Magnus said politely. "Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sorry, Attention, Pay

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• And your excuse?' I asked. 'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said. I gave him a look. 'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.' 'I thought you were friends.' 'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Nice, Mean, Mad

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• What are these guys?" He whispered "Canadians," Percy said. Frank leaned away from him. "Excuse me?" "Uh, no offense," Percy said. "That's what Annabeth called them when I fought them before. She said they live in the north, in Canada." "Yeah, well," Frank grumbled, "we're in Canada. I'm Canadian. But I've never seen those things before.

  Rick Riordan

  Guy, Annabeth, Canada

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• There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven’t time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else’s story, we come to understand our own.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Book, Thinking, People

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• I see you're trying to distract me from the real point here," Magnus said instead. "You had a birthday - a perfect excuse for me to throw one of my famous parties - and you didn't even tell me about it?

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Party, Perfect

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

  Gayle Forman

  Life Is, Intention, Theory

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• No excuses; those were just weak.

  Abbi Glines

  No Excuses, Weak

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Sometimes It Lasts”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.

  Veronica Roth

  Names, Differences, Admitting

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• My mother," he said, "has invited us to a ball." Elena pulled a blade from one of the butter-soft forearm sheaths that had been a gift from Raphael. "Excuse me while I stab myself in the eyes-and disembowel myself while I'm at it.

  Nalini Singh

  Mother, Eye, Balls

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.3, Penguin

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