#excuse

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly. ↗

— John Malkovich

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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character. ↗

— Taryn Manning

#being #character #excused #just #playing

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore. ↗

— Goran Ivanisevic

#because #court #excuses #find #i

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

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God's only excuse is that he does not exist. ↗

— Stendhal

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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

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