Sunday, October 21, 2018 – Making Excuses
The preliminary investigation conducted by the prosecutor found that the suspects traveled to Istanbul to meet with Khashoggi as he had expressed an interest in returning to Saudi Arabia. Discussions that took place developed in a negative way and led to a fight and a quarrel between some of them and the citizen. The brawl aggravated to lead to his death and their attempt to conceal and cover what happened. The Kingdom expresses its deep regret at the painful developments that have taken place. ~ The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saturday, October 20, 2018
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. ~ George Washington
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Do not make excuses, whether it’s your fault or not. ~ George Patton
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness. ~ Agatha Christie
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse. ~ Thomas Szasz
Every vice has its excuse ready. ~ Publilius Syrus
An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie. ~ Billy Sunday
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses. ~ Robert Brault
Several excuses are always less convincing than one. ~ Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. ~ Cardinal Richelieu
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ~ Rudyard Kipling
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. ~ Russell Baker
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. ~ Steven Grayhm
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. ~ Marcus Fabius Quintilian
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. ~ François de la Rochefoucauld
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ~ Edward R. Murrow
Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon – the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it. ~ Lord Byron
Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them. ~ John Wooden
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses ~ Amit Abraham
Leadership, leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. ~ Mitt Romney
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ~ Milan Kundera
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. ~ Gertrude Stein
We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness. ~ Margaret Fuller
The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit I have never had a great love or a great friendship; but that is because I never met a man or a woman who were worthy of it; if I have not written any very good books, it is because I had not the leisure to do so; or, if I have had no children to whom I could devote myself it is because I did not find the man I could have lived with. So there remains within me a wide range of abilities, inclinations and potentialities, unused but perfectly viable, which endow me with a worthiness that could never be inferred from the mere history of my actions.” But in reality and for the existentialist, there is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving; there is no genius other than that which is expressed in works of art. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Anyone can have an off decade. ~ Larry Cole
Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I’d have an excuse. ~ Jimmy Fallon
I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way. ~ Hedy Lamarr
Winning excuses everything. ~ Cam Newton
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future but an excuse can last for life. ~ Eric Hoffer
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. ~ Alexander Pope
Excuse me while I kiss the sky. ~ Jimi Hendrix
And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself. ~ Murray Walker
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. ~ Henri Rousseau
A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who’d been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord. ~ Patricia Briggs
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