#excuse

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#change #everyone #excuses #feel #make

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#benefit #casually #curious #doing #doing the right thing

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#day #enough #escape #excuse #get

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. ↗

— David Frum

#business #congress #conservative #decisions #excuses

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children. ↗

— Diane von Furstenberg

#birthday #birthday party #children #excuses #got

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard! ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#earnest #excuse #heard #i #i am

If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#fans #hands #i #leave #like

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#architecture #behind #believe #budget #city

Continually finding excuses for taking a small glass of brandy and water. ↗

— John Leech

#continually #excuses #finding #glass #small

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#chances #changes #enthusiasm #excuse #going