Extenuating Quotes

#1. The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.

Mason Cooley

#2. I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.

Zora Neale Hurston

#3. The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins that all we unborn generations might have been contemplating in the future. Adam's sin is perhaps mitigated by the extenuating circumstance that he didn't exist.

Richard Dawkins

#4. Extenuating Circumstances. That is me. That is Violet Markey. Poor forever-changed Violet and her Extenuating Circumstances.

Jennifer Niven

#5. No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.

Albert Camus

#6. The age of the self-made man was also the age of the broken man... This 'American sense' looked upon failure as a 'moral sieve' that trapped the loafer and passed the true man through. Such ideologies fixed blame squarely on individual faults, not extenuating circumstances.

Scott A. Sandage

#7. Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.

Clayton Christensen

#8. You're avoiding me."

I glance over. "Just a bit."

"A bit? There aren't degrees of avoidance, Dean. You're either avoiding someone, or you aren't."

"Not true. Sometimes there're extenuating circumstances. Unexpected variables.

Elle Kennedy

#9. Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. You see, I'm not ashamed to admit it. When you've passed eighty, you don't need to lie anymore, not to yourself nor to others, or find extenuating circumstances for what you have done.

Ahmet M. Rahmanovic

#11. 'The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

Jim Parsons

#12. Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

John Arlott

#13. Hairy monkeyballs!" I hiss. "Dogshit on a stick! Puke pancakes!"
A head pokes in. Wren, green eyes smiling, walks over to my bed.
"I knew you were awake. Who else spews such original and captivating swears?

Sara Wolf

#14. I've tried many other hairstyles, but it just doesn't work.

Rod Stewart

#15. I'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce.

Ruth Reichl

#16. Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

George Farquhar

#17. Meaning cannot be found, it should be created every hour of every day

Sharon Nir

#18. Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity.

Sathya Sai Baba

#19. It's never that I don't want to be with you. It's that you don't want to be with me. -Isaac

Tarryn Fisher

#20. By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

Manning Marable

#21. But Dick had come away for his soul's sake, and he began thinking about that. He had lost himself
he could not tell the hour when, or the day or the week, the month or the year.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#22. Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

Joe Garagiola

#23. I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.

Frances Conroy