#excuse

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#excuse #get #good #had #head

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#begging #bigger #democrats #excuse #government

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. ↗

— George Washington

#bad one #better #excuse #offer #than

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#clinton #excused #good #i #journalists

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#excuse #fault #never #nor #present

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#crowd #defend #excuses #favorite #hidden

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#born #excuse #first #first time #getting

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#beyond #control #exchange #excuse #i

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

— Rudyard Kipling

#failure #forty #million #reasons #single

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#apart #being #choices #democracy #excuses