Excuse Quotations | Page 3

I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.

I will not use my addiction as an excuse for what I've done. I take responsibility for my actions. I will never come back to this court again.

I think that any excuse that Americans find to listen to Bob Dylan, especially given what they're listening to the rest of the time, I think that's probably a good thing,

I think we should have played better. There's no excuse why things got out of hand like that. We have to figure out if we want to win and come together and do something instead of being the laughingstock of the Western Conference. I think we're separated right now. Either we're in or we're out. If you in, let's roll. If you out, then stay out. For us not to have that attitude is bull (manure) to me, and I don't understand it.

People are looking for an excuse to take profits.

People are looking for an excuse to take profits. You've still got strength in commodities; it's obviously going to help fuel inflation, which is going to mean the Fed ain't going to be reducing interest rates anytime soon.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

It definitely wasn't there tonight. We scored a goal and I think that may have been our worst enemy. It hurts a lot...there's no excuse for it.

I think they ought to burn every one of them. There is no excuse for what they've done.

I was kind of hoping she would get back in there because I didn't want any excuses later.

I was kind of nervous, especially when they had all that momentum in the fourth. It was kind of shaky there. Rebounding is something where we did not do a good job. There is no excuse for that.

I was just off. I'm not going to make any excuses. I just didn't make shots.

I think that you're giving people an excuse not to do it?and not necessarily a bad one. Some of those lost purchases in the fourth quarter just don't ever come back.

It affects me a little bit because I'm used to having the ball 90 percent of the time on the court, but I can't use that as an excuse at all. I've got to find a way. I'm getting shots that I normally make, but they're not going in. I just can't go 1-for-12 and expect us to be successful.

I talk to all the creative directors today, and they take me aside, and they say, 'You know, it must have been great back in those days when you could do anything you wanted.' I say, 'Huh? Excuse me?' I mean, we fought. In the '60s and '70s, you fought wars with clients, and you have to continue fighting wars to do great work.

I talk to the players all the time about not making excuses. I'm probably the worst at making excuses. You've just got to keep going. The players have shown a lot of resiliency, and I appreciate that.

I think that there is no justification or excuse for the Sunnis to boycott,

I think the biggest reason we won last year was our bullpen. I don't think there's ever an excuse for not putting together a good bullpen.

I think the double-bye is an advantage/disadvantage. This is not an excuse. Saint Peter's outplayed us and they deserved to win. Our guys played hard. But we didn't seem as sharp. I don't know if the week off hurt us.

I think there should be more phone calls and more face-to-face meetings, and the guys from Tampa can come to New York and vice versa. Certainly there should be better communication; there's no excuse with modern communications as we have it today. That's where we've fallen short, and I blame all of us for that.

Our run defense has not done well, and there is no excuse for that. We aren't fitting well, and we have a couple of new players in there, who aren't as good as the guys who are injured. On offense, our passing game, including the protection, is not where it needs to be.

Our goal is to insure that everyone in the county has a safe and happy New Year's Eve. The county, working with local police agencies, has a zero tolerance program. ... There is no excuse for driving while impaired when a free ride home service is in place for anyone that needs it.

I think he showed a lot of guts today because they came to him, and he had every excuse to chuck it in. He went 1:11.05 (for 6 furlongs) and picked it up to 1:34.81 (for 1 mile) and finished really well.

I think others might suggest he just ran out of excuses why he hasn't gone

I think higher energy prices might have given us the excuse to correct today, but overall, the market remains healthy.

It doesn't matter who our competition is, whether it's Sacramento or whoever. We've had some bad losses in back-to-back games. There's no excuse.

I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.

Kayak polo's a good excuse to put on a skirt and play a sport, ... When you play in a white-water kayak, which is a closed cockpit boat, you wear a short, black waterproof skirt you stretch over the kayak's top edges to keep water from coming inside.

Kayak polo's a good excuse to put on a skirt and play a sport. When you play in a white-water kayak, which is a closed cockpit boat, you wear a short, black waterproof skirt you stretch over the kayak's top edges to keep water from coming inside.

I think that's probably the case. But that's an excuse, and I don't mean it to be.

It is not a death sentence. The fatalistic view we often find is so wrong. If you don't have funds to pay for a mammogram, they, you have no excuse not to get one.

I think the markets probably overreacted when the Federal Reserve first moved toward a neutral operating directive. When Alan Greenspan spoke this time, I think the reality set in and that is, yes, the central bank has a neutral directive, but it's more like an ultra-right (hawkish) form of neutral directive. ... Any time they get an excuse to raise rates, they're going to take it.

It is a down week after some predictable profit taking following a strong January. But the excuse for that profit taking was the Fed. We walked away from last Tuesday's meeting in which they raised interest rates, knowing that they will likely raise rates again at their March meeting.

I think it's outrageous. I think they're making excuses so they can keep raising it.

It happened (against Minnesota), and it was an incredible turning point. It was also very deflating, but it's also part of the game and was bad timing for us. ? I'm not sure you can really explain it. We just did a poor job. There's no excuse or explanation. I wish we had an opportunity to do it over again.

It had nothing to do with it. If you execute, you'll get guys out. I felt fine to go today. There's no excuse for not getting it done.

It gave me an excuse to stay up late with my dad. Watching wrestling with my old man was the equivalent of playing catch with your dad.

I think we've got a young team, (but) it's not an excuse. Things didn't go our way. Their goalie stood on her head, and we didn't bury it.

I think we were a little leg tired. I don't want to use that as an excuse because it is not an excuse. We should have been able to overcome that.

I think you really need to be communicating with your children, and you have to become technically savvy. I don't think it's an excuse these days to say I don't know how this computer works.

I think it's a lame excuse for a lot of these rappers to say they only call girls bitches or hos because they act like that. It doesn't make them right.

I take my hat off to them because they didn't have a bye week and we did. There was really no excuse for us to lose and not play as well as we were supposed to.

I think it's going to get better, but that's no excuse. We were fine going into the third but couldn't seem to find a way to score the big goal and stop them scoring on the power play.

I think it's a statement for our players. I don't think that they ever allowed Chuck's injury to be a built-in excuse for them.

It could have been an excuse for us to sit back, blame it on the travel. But we have (today) off and we knew that, so we wanted to work hard and get the two points.

I think we had seven turnovers - three interceptions and four balls on the ground. Anytime you do that you're not going to win a football game. Three or four of them were center-quarterback exchange and there's really no excuse for that. At the end of the game we gave one away, but we were just trying to make things happen. Chalk that up to game one.

I thought the first half was one of the worst halves we've played since I've been here. It was just absolutely terrible. We didn't make shots, we had no value for the basketball and we didn't get second shots. I don't understand it. We've already played 19 games, and to come out and play how we played, there's no excuse for it.

Today's twin reports provide a further excuse for the Bank of Canada to halt at 4.0 percent after next week's hike.

We came out flat today. We have been at home for a while but it's no excuse for us to come out like we did. They went on an early run and maintained that energy the rest of the game. We have to come out with a better effort next game.

We have the chances but no one is stepping up. It is going to be a battle for us. By putting the ball in the net we reward ourselves, and if we play at our potential, we can be competitive. Being young is not an excuse this late in the season.

The President did it' is not an excuse

Water needs to be clean and safe for our citizens. There's no excuse for the problems we've had. I knew there was interest when folks in my ward talked me into running again. There is dissatisfaction with the way the city is being run, with the cost of some employees, with the quality of water.

Those aren't excuses. I think that, for the most part, we played a solid game.

Those are such nagging things that help keep drives going. There's no excuse for that.

We didn't shoot well. We didn't pass well. We didn't get back on defense the way we normally do. When you don't do that, you're bound to lose. I guess because of the four-day stay in Greenville, we were just fatigued. But that's no excuse. We just didn't play well.

We didn't show them at home that we're a good side so it's a challenge for us. There's no excuse for playing that badly at home. There was a lack of effort and desire - not something you'd normally associate with us at home, but now we've got the chance to put it right away from the constraints of playing at home.

We didn't come here on the same page. East Hartford worked harder and was hungrier. They've got a great player, but there was no excuse for playing the way we did.

I would not be surprised to see a short-term correction of the dollar. Strong Japanese economic data could be used as an excuse to buy back the yen.

Using that as an excuse is not true.

We know that technology can augment contact between children and parents. But what we don't want is for that to substitute for real time. Virtual time is not real time. We don't want the advent of technological advances to become an excuse to justify moving away. Both parents have an obligation to stay in the same neighborhood unless they mutually agree to work something out otherwise.

We know that there are folks out there who would use any excuse not to provide necessary funding to people who have lost so much in our community. It's all about perception. We understand the import of this whole thing, and we hope the rest of the country gets the message: New Orleans is not going to do things the way we used to do it.

We could have played a lot better. We have real good players on this team, so there is no excuse.

You have to excuse me - I have something in my eye,

That's tough. We weren't prepared for that. We didn't play a game all year in the cold weather. Its not an excuse. We still had a chance to win the game. But it was tough.

We haven't seen live pitching in a while, not (seen) any game situations. But no excuses.

We haven't been hitting the last four games. Getting home at 5:15 isn't an excuse for that.

We have a very nervous investment environment. The excuse is bond rates are up and there is increased concern about the financial futures market, which appears to be predicting three more rate hike for the Fed funds.

Microsoft's delay is inexcusable. There's no excuse other than incompetence and negligence.

When it comes to this music, it just seems to be a foregone conclusion that there is going to be some kind of excuse for things not being able to be implemented that are deemed necessary for the successful realization of the music. I know that this is sounding clumsy and that it could easily be misinterpreted, but one doesn't have to be a brain trust to make the observation that I've just made.

We were looking for an excuse to do that just so we could see where we were with those kinds of things. That's how the game is - constantly changing.

While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.

We don't want to make excuses. Even though those guys are out, we have to put five guys out on the floor. I think this team is good enough and deep enough to still go out there and compete and win a couple of games.

We can only win if the Iraqi people are able to play a greater role in peacekeeping, and we can only win if the president gives an honest assessment of what's really happening on the ground in Iraq. Staying the course and paying for good headlines are not a strategy. It's merely a bad excuse for not having a plan.

We're definitely going to see a very strong first quarter. It looked like consumers were hibernating in December, and all they needed was an excuse to go on a spending spree. The weather provided that.

We were more ready to play the second game. There wasn't any excuse for losing the first game.

Whoever it was, there's no excuse for that behavior. I'm sure it's frustration. But there's still no excuse.

We came in with the right attitude, but once we got that first goal, collectively, I think we felt it was going to be an easier night than it turned out to be. It was our own worst enemy. There's no excuse for it, but it was pretty evident that that's what happened.

We had four guards out there. They had four guards, too, but they had a little bit of size on us. It's tough playing with four guards. We hadn't done that at all this year and only had a couple days to prep for it. It's still not an excuse with the rebounding. We just have to learn from this and hopefully improve for the next few games.

We had all the momentum going into the third, and then we sat back. There's no excuse for that.

We've had excuses for part of the year, but we don't have excuses now. This is a game we need to win, period.

We got caught in the rain when they got their runs. But that's no excuse for our defensive play.

That was our worst defensive performance all year. There's no excuse for it. You have to make the plays.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

We set the policy and you can't bend the rules every time. Every time we review this there has been some excuse why they can't meet the requirements. It amazes me that staff, who is here and has institutional memory, can't speak the truth about it.

The process of putting the DVD and the CD together was great fun, because it provided a good excuse for the four of us to make time to get together again. I am especially pleased with the end result of these two projects.

The fact is that the hurricane is not going to be as devastating as initially thought. The downgrading is being used as an excuse to buy dollars.

There are a lot of challenges for people who are low income. There are significant resources being put in by drug companies, and millions of consumers are benefiting from these programs. This is just a good excuse for them to get out of those programs.

The reality is that there should not be an impact. However, many of the material suppliers and subcontractors are using that as an excuse for raising prices.

We've been hovering pretty much around .500 all season. There's no excuse for us that when these five games are over we shouldn't be two or three games above .500. Having said that, I think we all know the importance of this five-game stretch before we hit the road before the break is over with. It's a great opportunity for us.

There are no excuses. We just didn't get it done tonight.

There is a real strength in depth and when we see the finishing line we will be looking to push on this year. There has been no excuse for what we have done in previous years but we are better equipped this season than any to continue this run.

This proposal gives automakers another excuse to not make the cars that people want - ones that use available technology to save consumers money at the gas pump and cut pollution. Making our cars and trucks go farther on a gallon of gas is the biggest single step we can take to save money at the gas pump, cut oil dependence, and curb global warming.

This really is an open invitation to every special interest to appeal to the EPA for a break, using the hurricane as an excuse,

The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

We have learned that if we provide people with an occasion and an excuse to shop, they will come.

Wal-Mart understands that they have a growing public relations disaster on their hands. American people are looking at a company with $10 billion in profit and $285 billion in sales that makes excuse after excuse about why it can't provide a living wage and health care to its workers.