Quotes About Excuse Makers

#1. 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

#2. Nothing worse than a man who makes excuses, blames others, and refuses responsibility for his own actions. No doubt there were real experiences that underlined the worthlessness of excuse makers for these men.

James MacDonald

#3. My grandmother always said if you add sugar to booze then it's medicine not liquor.

Simon Clark

#4. I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.

Isabel Allende

#5. Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.

Richard Branson

#6. People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you.

Robin Sloan

#7. You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

Ruby Wax

#8. Grass grows at last above all graves.

Julia Caroline Dorr

#9. The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without.

Annie Dillard

#10. Except for the part where I never told him that I was born a man.

Kia Jones

#11. I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#12. In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

Eric S. Raymond