#excuses

I didn't do anything wrong. I swear.' He grunted. 'Like I've never heard that before. Funny, but I expected a little more originality from Moira's daughter.' 'Yeah, well, the dog ate my notebook with all my good excuses. ↗

— Mindee Arnett

#funny #humorous #quote #funny

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#procrastination #procrastination

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#men

Don't make excuses and Don't talk about it. Do it. ↗

— Melvyn Douglas

#excuses #make #talk

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#anything #before #contract #even #excuses

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. ↗

— Addison Mizner

#excuses #ignorance #law #man #practicing

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything. ↗

— Johan Santana

#anything #best #excuses #feel #find

I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#love

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top. ↗