Top 93 There Is No Excuse Quotes
#1. 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
#2. There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
William Morris
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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 Buying the biggest thing is outdated and there is no excuse for it.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
#6. There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God.
Dave Hunt
#7. There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.
Steven Brust
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
Ken Starr
#12. As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.
Tim Gunn
#13. Nobody wants to die!
So why do people let themselves go?
Why kill yourself off?
Stop and think, get fit and strong!
Even a good shag will burn the calories off and pump your heart!
There is no excuse - you know it!
Charles Bronson
#14. There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.
Jock Stein
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.
Irene Khan
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. There is no excuse for not catching a ball you can get to.
Johnny Damon
#22. 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
#23. Now that we have the line-item veto there is no excuse for Congress to put pork in and no reason for the president not to line-item veto it out.
John McCain
#24. There is no excuse for your failure; accept it and try again.
M.F. Moonzajer
#25. There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!
Roscoe Turner
#27. There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.
C.P. Snow
#28. Let's stop blaming our unbelief on the pastor we once had, on our childhood, on circumstances, or on anything else. There is no excuse for us not to believe in the Lord.
Jim Cymbala
#29. There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
John Bolton
#30. From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.
Jurgen Habermas
#31. Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.
Anthony Burgess
#32. What's beyond logic happens beneath will;
nor can these moments be translated: i say
that even after April
by God there is no excuse for May
E. E. Cummings
#33. Sometimes, you can hurt another person by being true to yourself, but in the longterm you are doing both of you a favour. You can also hurt them by just being a selfish bitch and there is no excuse for that. Sometimes it is quite difficult to tell the two situations apart.
Kate Kerrigan
#34. There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
Flannery O'Connor
#35. Today, there is no excuse for any one of us to sit back and go, "Ugh! There's nothing I can do about it."Because there is always something that can be done.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#36. I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.
Rigoberta Menchu
#37. A washing machine repairman dying of laryngeal cancer had only one recurring thought: There is no excuse for making an angel cry.
Tade Thompson
#38. There is no excuse for being derogatory or dismissive about other's beliefs, paths, choices. Everyone is where they need to be at the right time to learn the right things for them and their personal journey through life.
Jay Woodman
#40. There is no excuse. If you want to write, write.This is your life, you are responsible for it.You will not live forever.Don't wait. Make the time now.
Natalie Goldberg
#41. Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to maintain attention and interest should be punishable by stoning. There is no excuse for tedium.
Jay H. Lehr
#42. There is no excuse for any spiritually minded person being confused over total abstinence from alcoholic beverages.
Oliver B. Greene
#43. There is no excuse among professional officers for not having a 5000 year old mind.
Jay Luvaas
#44. There is no excuse not to give two minutes today to intend your tomorrow.
Rhonda Byrne
#45. One of the challenges of the movie is there are no apologies or excuses.
John Landis
#46. 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
#47. God says that we can learn a great deal about Him just by observing nature. Because He has spoken through His universe, all men are without excuse for not believing in Him. This is why the Psalmist said: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God" [Psalm 14:1 KJV].
Billy Graham
#48. Now if you'll excuse me, real life is calling and there's no room for self-righteous, delusional little girls. Big boys only.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#49. Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have
to ensure that right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#50. Will you excuse us all," [Jeff] said, "if we admit that we find it hard to believe? There is no such-possibility-in the rest of the world."
Have you no kind of life where [asexual reproduction] is possible?" asked Zava.
"Why, yes-some low forms, of course."
"How low-or how high, rather?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
Frank Moore Colby
#54. I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.
Paul Graham
#55. The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others
Iain Banks
#56. I've learned over the years that the best way to develop as an artist is to make things. So I tell young artists it's not enough to be an actor anymore, you have to be a filmmaker/writer/director. There's no excuse for waiting around for a job. You have to be active and make things.
Liane Balaban
#57. There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.
Hosea Ballou
#58. 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
#59. There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.
Bill Nelson
#60. 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
#61. For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#62. There was no sign of Jules.
"Bad news," said Elliot. "The man is sick. You're going to have to settle for me."
"Sick?" Vee demanded. "How sick? What kind of excuse is sick?"
"Sick as in it's coming out both ends."
Vee scrunched her nose. "Too much information.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#63. There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world's poorest people, they will only multiply the seriousness of the problem for the world as a whole.
Peter Singer
#64. 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
#65. We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.
Jonathan Sacks
#66. 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
#67. Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best.
Robert C. Martin
#68. 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
#69. [Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.
Margaret Cho
#70. I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.
Kevin Hart
#71. Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must.
Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.
Philip Pullman
#72. Some people feel threatened by the concept that abuse is a solvable problem, because if it is, there's no excuse for not solving it.
Lundy Bancroft
#73. So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.
Pliny The Younger
#74. I think it is important that independent government agencies be put in charge of investigating misconduct so that police departments are no longer allowed to police themselves. There is a conflict of interest there which, I believe, allows police to excuse their own behavior.
Bernie Sanders
#75. There's no excuse for giving up just because it looks like we're going to lose. We have to try - because the other choice is to surrender.
L.J.Smith
#76. 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
#77. Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.
Edward Law, 1st Earl Of Ellenborough
#78. Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.
Aneurin Bevan
#79. The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative
Milton Friedman
#80. There is no fate ... no predestination ... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.
Ingrid Weir
#81. Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid.
Ozzy Osbourne
#82. The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.
Hilaire Belloc
#83. The danger is in becoming so seduced by the lexiconic that we became lexiphanes. There's no excuse for indulging in the bombastic at any time, of course.
Murray Waldren
#84. If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.
Bill Vaughan
#85. I lied about serving in Vietnam, and I'm sorry. I did not mean to take away from the actions and the sacrifices of the ones who did really serve there ... I did steal valor. That was very wrong of me. There is no real excuse for that.
Brian Dennehy
#86. The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.
George W. Plunkitt
#87. Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
Tawni O'Dell
#88. Writing every day is very, very helpful, but set the bar at a place where you have no excuse: It doesn't matter how tired you are, how late it is, you will do it. So if you say, "I will write one hundred words a day" - set the bar there, and then you can actually get over that bar.
N.D. Wilson
#89. I write the script; nobody sees it, not the people that put the money in the picture. I cast who I want, and make the film. That's why I've always felt the only thing standing between me and greatness, is me. There's no excuse for me not to be great except that I'm not.
Woody Allen
#90. There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
Robert Breault
#91. There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.
Isaac Asimov
#92. She was ashamed at feeling disappointed; and began to reflect, as an excuse to herself, on the little objects which attract attention when there is nothing to divert the mind; and how difficult it was for women to avoid growing romantic, who have no active duties or pursuits.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#93. It's a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing. All Bush wants is Iraqi oil. There is no doubt that the U.S. is behaving badly. Why are they not seeking to confiscate weapons of mass destruction from their ally Israel? This is just an excuse to get Iraq's oil.
Nelson Mandela
