Asked To Be Excused Quotes

#1. After a while, many of the whites asked to be excused before Evelyn even asked them any questions. Most of them preferred to be excused rather than have their feelings toward Black people, Black militants, and Black Panthers questioned and explored.

Assata Shakur

#2. I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.

Scotty McCreery

#3. Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.

Roy Blount Jr.

#4. Being a geological formation gives you a lot of time to think. Also, I subscribed to a number of learned journals.

Neil Gaiman

#5. I started to write [ The Name of the Rose ] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.

Umberto Eco

#6. I cannot be afraid. I've spent too long being afraid. Too long being diminished by loss. Too long being everything except what I need to be. And whether I am the Reaper, or whether it's just another mask, it's one I must wear, not just for them, but for myself.

Pierce Brown

#7. Kade nodded as he reached out to trace one finger down the spine and along the legs of his image. "I don't look broken like this.

Tempeste O'Riley

#8. May I be excused, or would you like my assistance toweling off?" Ethan asked. "My grandmother is expecting me, and she hates when I'm late, although I'm willing to risk the wrath if you'd like to continue this conversation.

Barbra Annino

#9. Any believer who has not encountered the Cross is not yet a follower of Christ

S. E. Entsua-Mensah

#10. It doesn't help for you to name a character's first name be Mindy and then be like, "I'm nothing like the character."

Mindy Kaling

#11. This man accepted everything, excused everything, forgave everything, blessed everything, welcomed everything, and asked of Providence, of men, of justice, of society, of nature, of the world, one thing only - that Cosette love him!

Victor Hugo

#12. Before creation I alone was, there was no other existence of the nature of cause and effect different from Me. After the creative cycle ends also, I alone exist. For, this universe is also Myself, and when everything is dissolved in its cause in Pralaya, what remains is only Myself.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#13. I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Walt Whitman