Flimsy Excuses Quotes

People always think killing requires a force: a cup of poison tipped into a mouth, a knife parting flesh from bone, a fist brought down repeatedly.
Wrong.
Here's how you kill: You stay silent, you make bargains that peel the layers off your soul one by one, you build a scaffolding of flimsy excuses and live your life on them. I may have killed to save, but I killed all the same. ~ Roshani Chokshi

You can become good at procrastinating your opportunities by giving flimsy excuses. But never forget that it is rather your success that you are skipping away. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

It's not the situation -the action that does matter, situations produce excuses, where the actions -the results. ~ Praveen Chenna

Work hard and never make excuses. ~ Master P

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help. ~ Criss Jami

Once an excuse has been deployed, brutal honesty is no longer an option. ~ Linda Berdoll

I know." His hand ran across the floor, making shapes in the nonexistent dust. "Have you ever seen those shows starring serial-killer main characters? Dexter? Hannibal? Some of those sexy vampire ones the mafia funds to lure victims to them? They make all sorts of excuses for the serial killers. 'It's okay, he's killing bad guys.' 'It's okay, because it happened offscreen.' I hate those. I hate when people do that to me. When they try to make me sympathetic, moralize all the decisions that aren't moral. ~ Rebecca Schaeffer

No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience. ~ Ignazio Silone

Scattered upon the flimsy dresser scarf were half a dozen hairpins - those discreet, indistinguishable friends of womankind, feminine of gender, infinite of mood and uncommunicative of tense. ~ O. Henry

Dear Halford, When we were together last, you gave me a very particular and interesting account of the most remarkable occurrences of your early life, previous to our acquaintance; and then you requested a return of confidence from me. Not being in a story-telling humour at the time, I declined, under the plea of having nothing to tell, and the like shuffling excuses, which were regarded as wholly inadmissible by you; for though you instantly turned the conversation, it was with the air of an uncomplaining, but deeply injured man, and your face was overshadowed with a cloud which darkened it to the end of our interview, and, for what I known, darkens it still; for your letters have, ever since, been distinguished by a certain dignified, semi-melancholy stiffness and reserve, that would have been very affecting, if my conscience had accused me of deserving it. ~ Anne Bronte

You and Dad are really the wrecking ball of all of our teenage runaway fantasies. Why couldn't you jerks go and be crack addicts or religious fanatics so we could have excuses to live on the wide open road? - email from Lily ~ Candace Allan

Excuses and complaints are signs of a dreamless life ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young. ~ Kenny Chesney

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time. ~ Mike Ditka

No more excuses or procrastination! Stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals. ~ Steve Maraboli

In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of religious fervor, however ridiculous, not realizing that true religion must be according to God's will as the perfect measure; that He can never deny Himself and is no mere spirit form to be changed around according to individual preference. ~ John Calvin

Because if you don't accept excuses, pretty soon people stop giving them, and they start looking for solutions. And that is a critical issue when it comes to success. ~ Ben Carson

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia. ~ Tony Abbott

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing. ~ Robert Anthony

We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams. ~ Steve Maraboli

Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses. ~ Mason Cooley

In the name of the deceased, I charge you for letting the love pass by, for neglecting the duty to be happy, for living out of excuses, pretense and accepting with the fate. You should be condemned to death, but you'll be sentenced to solitude. ~ Francoise Sagan

Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no true excuses. This is our life. Step forward. Maybe it's only for ten minutes. That's okay. To write feels better than all the excuses. ~ Natalie Goldberg

Stop making excuses and just do it! ~ Robin S. Sharma

People keep making excuses, that's why everthing happens for a reason. ~ Roy Saputra

My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented. ~ Ken Venturi

The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are. ~ Debbie Ford

She was too well acquainted with the way things work in real life. Real life sucked. But it was real. It was unapologetic. It made no excuses. It just was. ~ Maya Banks

Today I will work when others procrastinate, I will confront my fears when others hide from theirs, and I will create solutions when others find excuses; today I refuse to allow my enemies to out work me. ~ Noel DeJesus

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance. ~ Phyllis Bottome

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself. ~ Deepak Chopra

I would invite any Christian to accompany me to the children's ward of a hospital, to watch the suffering that is there being endured, and then to persist in the assertion that those children are so morally abandoned as to deserve what they are suffering. In order to bring himself to say this, a man must destroy in himself all feelings of mercy and compassion. He must, in short, make himself as cruel as the God in whom he believes. No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery. The ~ Bertrand Russell

no excuses, no blame, and no explanations. ~ Henry Cloud

You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there as the geek. They like to watch me eat my shit. But it pays the light bill and takes me to the racetrack. I don't have any excuses about why I do it. ~ Charles Bukowski

Do you ever shut up? There's nothing wrong with you. You're just looking for excuses not to be brave. ~ Hilary T. Smith

Maybe all of this was prevarication and excuses and not an afterword at all. ~ Jeff VanderMeer

Core passions and aspirations should be consistent and in sync. ~ Lorii Myers

When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present. ~ Terry Pratchett

You don't have to make excuses for God. ~ Dan Davis

The alternative to this truce-marriage is to determine to see your own selfishness as a fundamental problem and to treat it more seriously than you do your spouse's. Why? Only you have complete access to your own selfishness, and only you have complete responsibility for it. So each spouse should take the Bible seriously, should make a commitment to "give yourself up." You should stop making excuses for selfishness, you should begin to root it out as it's revealed to you, and you should do so regardless of what your spouse is doing. If two spouses each say, "I'm going to treat my self-centeredness as the main problem in the marriage," you have the prospect of a truly great marriage. ~ Timothy J. Keller

SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong. ~ Terry Pratchett

Mental illness is an illness , not an excuse for irresponsibility . ~ Talitha Day Fair

There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business. ~ Kevin Plank

People make excuses [for not wanting to fight me]. It has a lot to do with my style. I'm a crafty fighter but I can also punch. ~ Erislandy Lara

Leave your excuses and live your dreams! ~ Paul F. Davis

Together we can remind them there are no excuses to sit back and watch the cycle of extreme poverty continue. ~ Auliq Ice

If you give up, you reward failure. ~ Lorii Myers