Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can have results or excuses. Not both.

Ned Vizzini

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I swear it on Solin’s life. (Arik) Uh, excuse me? (Solin) I would, but there’s truly no excuse for you. (Arik)

Halle Berry

I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.

Eric Thomas

There are no excuses. There are no good reasons.

Jock Stein

There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.

Philip Pullman

Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

Ralph Richardson

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

Allen Iverson

We have to get it done, that's no excuse.

Dan Sanso

We have no excuse for how we played. (Leonard) had to play in the rain, too. We just lacked the knockout punch.

Ed Smith

We were anything but nervous. They are a loose group. Maybe they're too loose. And we were healthy. No excuses for our play tonight.

Alan Nevin

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.

Stacy Robinson

Very angry, there is no excuse for this.

Jim Provuncher

We did have mental breakdowns. There are no excuses for that.

Angela Merkel

We stand by the constitution. The pause for reflection is not an excuse for putting it aside,

Joe Mullen

We're not going to make any excuses. We outplayed them for two periods and held them to nine shots (in that stretch). Then for whatever reason, we let them back in the game in the third.

Bruce Nauman

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

Terry Jones

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

Thomas Buxton

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel

Felix Frankfurter

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling

Alan Furst

I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.

Thomas Hardy

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Malala Yousafzai

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

Bruce Lahn

If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty ??- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier.

Georgia Witkin

To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday.

William Blake

Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.