How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.
Ignazio SiloneTags: intelligence conscience excuses
For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit I have never had a great love or a great friendship; but that is because I never met a man or a woman who were worthy of it; if I have not written any very good books, it is because I had not the leisure to do so; or, if I have had no children to whom I could devote myself it is because I did not find the man I could have lived with. So there remains within me a wide range of abilities, inclinations and potentialities, unused but perfectly viable, which endow me with a worthiness that could never be inferred from the mere history of my actions.” But in reality and for the existentialist, there is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving; there is no genius other than that which is expressed in works of art.
Jean-Paul SartreTo my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it.
Joan Lowery NixonI was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
Patrick NessTags: excuses personal-responsibility
Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.
John SteinbeckThe only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
Jordan BelfortTags: inspiration goal motivation excuses self-defeat
Sure, okay, I'll pick up some cat litter. Anything else?"
"Watch your back, G." Then she hung up.
Hero paused in her sobbing to look at me quizzically. "Why does your mom want cat litter? You guys don't even have a cat."
"She uses it for..." I searched my brain madly, but all I could come up with was "teaching."
"She uses cat litter to teach English?"
I nodded. "She's kind of unconventional in her methods."
Hero frowned. "But how does she use it?"
The girl was relentless when she fixated on something. "Um, when their papers are really bad, she gives them a little bag of cat litter. It's her way of telling them their writing is crap." I laughed. "She's kooky.
Tags: excuses cat-litter
At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.
Steve MaraboliTags: motivational life inspirational success appreciation excuses gratitude seize-the-day no-regrets
Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights.
But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora.
To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain.
What's your excuse?
Tags: story christmas santa-claus excuses santa excuse tale holiday north northern northern-lights reindeer sleigh tail
Don't bother explaining—I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
John BrunnerTags: excuses excuse explain 1988
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