Top 100 No Excuse Quotes
#1. The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that, that's not a statement, that's not politics, that's not activism, it's just criminal behavior.
Barack Obama
#2. God knows America would be the greatest again if she operated like the Nugent family. No takers, no whiners, no gangsters, no dopers, no drunks, no criminals, no bloodsuckers, no excuse makers, no crybabies, no punks, no Obama supporters.
Ted Nugent
#4. I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.
Geoff Dyer
#6. Serious circumstances remind us that the difficulty of finding the truth is no excuse for not looking.
Paul Copan
#7. To all the kids who looked up to me, I'm truly sorry for letting you down but I hope it's helped you learn that one bad decision can turn your dream into a nightmare, there is no excuse for domestic violence and I apologize for the horrible mistake I made.
Ray Rice
#8. Waiting for my real life to start is no excuse to waste the life I have right now.
Susane Colasanti
#9. Is that another sort of joke?" asked the old man. "You've no excuse for being bored anywhere. When I was your age I had never heard of such a thing.
Henry James
#10. Originality is no excuse for ignorance.
Fred Brooks
#11. As opposed to living the rich life and consuming as much as possible, people have to take a step back. Instead of buying the biggest diamond or having 18 cars, do other things. Buying the biggest thing is outdated and there is no excuse for it.
Andrew Ference
#12. I've had my run-ins with department stores, like Harrods, which stopped selling fur coats, but I found some there with fur trim, which is just as disgusting. Foie gras production is appalling - there's no excuse for selling it.
Joanna Lumley
#13. There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God.
Dave Hunt
#14. She tipped back her head and swilled down the last of her wine. 'Having fucked the groom is really no excuse for missing a wedding, you know.
Joe Abercrombie
#15. There's no reason anyone should ever feel lonely when there's love everywhere. There's no excuse for talented people to trudge through life. And if we weigh down our children, the very source that makes the stars blaze in the sky, then we may wake to realize we've lost something irretrievable.
Sarah Noffke
#16. Grace Taylor, I am going to kiss you right now and you are not going to run away from me, because you have no excuse now. Then you are going to go back upstairs to be and all you are going to think about are my fucking lips on yours and nothing else.
Christine Zolendz
#17. I swear it on Solin's life. (Arik)
Uh, excuse me? (Solin)
I would, but there's truly no excuse for you. (Arik)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#18. Not every one has a sob story and even if they do, it's no excuse.
Stephen Chbosky
#19. There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.
Steven Brust
#21. Listen to me, Siddalee, and listen good: There is no excuse to let your looks go, no matter how poor you are. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but honey let me tell you, ugliness will get you nowhere.
Rebecca Wells
#22. Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.
Desmond Tutu
#23. I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that it would be wrong of me to try to defend myself. Nevertheless, there is at least the possibility of an explanation.
Paul Auster
#24. No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening.
Troy Aikman
#25. Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.
Stephen Chbosky
#26. Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible
Thomas A Kempis
#27. Just following orders' is no excuse unless you're in the bedroom.
Donna Lynn Hope
#28. Men have no excuse for not knowing about God because He has revealed Himself in man's conscience and in the physical world (Rom. 1:19, 20; 2:15).
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#29. It was definitely a scary situation and I was frightened for my husband, but that is no excuse. I was disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job. I have nothing but respect for the police and I'm very sorry for my behavior.
Reese Witherspoon
#30. There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
Derek Jeter
#33. Ask what you would teach if you were in charge of the school system. There is no excuse to be passive and let your education slip past you. Take those important topics and learn them for yourself. Be
I.C. Robledo
#34. Because the Nome King intends to do evil is no excuse for my doing the same,
L. Frank Baum
#35. AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous.
Blake Shelton
#36. I have no excuse, neither real nor invented so I let my platinum express do the talking instead.
Jonas Eriksson
#37. Now it is mine." "I only dropped it because I got shot in the neck!" "That is no excuse for sloppy weapon retention," Acosta replied. "It
Larry Correia
#38. What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it.
Peter Drucker
#39. There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
Ken Starr
#40. Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.
Kathryn Davis
#41. We're showing that there's no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year.
Barack Obama
#42. As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.
Tim Gunn
#43. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.
Bertrand Russell
#44. He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
Ann Brashares
#45. There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.
Jock Stein
#46. Loneliness is no excuse for compromise. Be comfortable with yourself before you choose to be with someone else just to avoid being alone.
Yadin Kaufmann
#47. I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!
Wyclef Jean
#48. Being on the road is no excuse for having a poor diet. I don't like fast food, but if I have to, I'll order three plain grilled chicken sandwiches and throw out the buns.
Triple H
#49. It's time that Americans dealt seriously with guns, getting in place strong and appropriate measures - there is no excuse for anything but the strictest controls.
Jay Parini
#51. There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#52. I know I was drugged but that is still no excuse. Why do they want to do things like that?
Beatrice Sparks
#53. There's absolutely no excuse for throwing a piece of equipment on an umpire or any player. You can argue your point and at times may accidentally bump an umpire, but to consciously throw a piece of equipment at someone is unforgivable.
Brad Ausmus
#54. Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#55. Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.
Edward Kennedy
#56. The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary.
P.C. Cast
#57. There is no excuse for not catching a ball you can get to.
Johnny Damon
#58. I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
Charles De Lint
#59. We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.
William Grant Bangerter
#60. The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.
Jon Corzine
#61. Maybe that was the price of ignorance, I thought, looking at the naked vagrant. Maybe Japan had to pay for the ignorant things it did in Nanking. Because ignorance as I'd got tired of hearing, is no excuse for evil.
Mo Hayder
#63. I was only trying to survive, she mumbled, as if it made any difference. It was no excuse to use against someone who had truly been trying to survive, and Damian had done so quite successfully since 1450. What right had she to say that it was hard?
Elaine White
#64. At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.
Daniel Fried
#65. I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.
Dax Shepard
#66. What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
Bernard Crick
#68. The Earl of Woolsey glared at her. "Cheap clothing is no excuse for killing a man." "Mmm, that's what you say.
Gail Carriger
#69. One employee missed an event to witness the birth of his child. Musk fired off an e-mail saying, "That is no excuse. I am extremely disappointed. You need to figure out where your priorities are. We're changing the world and changing history, and you either commit or you don't."*
Ashlee Vance
#70. There was no excuse for Dallas Cowboys to lose to Washington. Rivalry or not, Redskins are a bad team.
Jemele Hill
#71. Working from home or going on maternity leave is no excuse to let go of your look. The more you schlep around in drawstring pants and tees, the less you're going to be able to pull yourself together when necessary.
Nina Garcia
#72. Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
Thomas Jefferson
#73. Innocence is no excuse in the eyes of the Law.
Leon Garfield
#74. The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.
Jane Addams
#75. Just because the world is falling apart around me is no excuse for a lack of professionalism.
Evan Currie
#76. The truth is no excuse for a boring story".
Michael Dorn
#77. People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot.
Thomas Sowell
#78. There is no excuse for anyone not to train three times a week. People want to look fat. Anyone can change their mind if they want to. It's all about motivation.
Lou Ferrigno
#79. There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.
Jay Inslee
#80. Under normal physical circumstances, there is no reason, no excuse to remain weak since methodical and steady work allows one to become strong.
Ed Thomas
#81. Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse.
Tina Brown
#82. Ignorance is no excuse when once we know that ignorance is the only possible excuse.
Alfred Korzybski
#83. With Christ in us and the Holy Spirit transforming us, we really have no excuse for continuing immaturity.
Gary L. Thomas
#84. We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline?
Donna Lynn Hope
#85. Know that once we have received Jesus, we can't continue to live our old sinful lifestyle. Now that we have His Holy Spirit living in us, guiding us, and transforming us, we have no excuse.
Stormie O'martian
#86. Cultural sensitivity is no excuse for moral blindness.
Saif Rahman
#87. Those Puritans would spice the Gallic stew of upper Maine for years, causing no end of trouble to Agnes, who, to be fair, was a witch and a succubus and everything else they ever called her, but that's no excuse for being such poor neighbors, when you think about it.
Catherynne M Valente
#88. It's impossible to be involved in all situations, but there's no excuse not to be involved in something, somewhere, somehow, with someone. Make an ounce of difference.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#89. Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#90. 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
#91. Not receiving a request through the entitled route is no excuse for not serving it.
Pawan Mishra
#92. Maybe you don't like your job. Maybe you didn't get enough sleep. Nobody likes their job; nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life. You know there's no escape and there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
Ani DiFranco
#93. There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.
Bill Nelson
#94. There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#95. Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.
T.E. Lawrence
#96. Give out of your surplus; support someone who's lacking. Give out a little even when lacking; it'll make someone lucky ... Have no excuse not to give!
Israelmore Ayivor
#97. There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends.
Mark Duplass
#98. Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.
Christine Pelosi
#99. Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.
Rick Santorum
#100. That's no excuse! And you're ruining my game, Jorgenson!" "Jackson.
Rick Riordan
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