#excuse

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together. ↗

— Edmund White

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People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band. ↗

— James Young

#concerts #destructive #excuse #gives #like

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime? ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#commit #crime #excuse #kill #know

The world used us as an excuse to go mad. ↗

— George Harrison

#go #mad #us #used #world

Excuse the mess but we live here. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#here #live #mess

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#best #blame #effort #excuse #journey

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#companies #downfall #eventual #excuse #feel

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#course #day #days #easy #even

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#live #may #only #peace #war

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