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  • I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.

  • 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.

    Charles de Lint (2007). “Tapping the Dream Tree”, p.250, Macmillan
  • Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.

    Ignorance   Self   Law  
  • Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.

    Revenge   Worry   Tests  
    GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”
  • I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

  • The Bible says all men are without excuse. Even those who are given no good reason to believe and many persuasive reasons to disbelieve have no excuse, because the ultimate reason they do not believe is that they have deliberately rejected God's Holy Spirit.

    Believe   Men   Religion  
    "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, 1994.
  • The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

    Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota
  • In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?

    "Religion, as ever, is the poison in India's blood" by Salman Rushdie, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2002.
  • Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

  • I mean, I know thousands of people died and everything, but if it happened today, there's just no excuse. They'd be much safer inside a movie theater watching one of my movies instead of burning alive in a collapsing skyscraper.

    Mean   People   Burning  
  • I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses."

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.

    Maturity   Eight   Years  
    Helen Mirren (2011). “In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
  • The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

    Peace   Brother   War  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286
  • There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

    Hero   Knowing   People  
  • He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.

  • There's no excuse to hit a woman... Ever. Not even in a movie role, because you might really like it. And then what?

  • We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

    "Tony Abbott calls on PM to 'name the date'". "7.30 Report" with Chris Uhlmann, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2013.
  • No excuses; those were just weak.

    Abbi Glines (2013). “Sometimes It Lasts”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
  • Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.

    Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster
  • Find $50 a month for savings. No excuses!

  • Sometimes people say to me, “I want to write, but I have five kids, a full-time job, a wife who beats me, a tremendous debt to my parents,” and so on. I say to them, “There is no excuse. If you want to write, write. This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don’t wait. Make the time now, even if it is ten minutes once a week."

    Jobs   Writing   Kids  
    "Advice to Writers: A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights". Book by Jon Winokur, p. 48, 2010.
  • The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

    Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.15, University of Illinois Press
  • Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame.

  • Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.

    Years   Knowing   People  
  • Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

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

    Men   No Excuses   Excuse  
  • Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion!

    "Fictional character: Jeremy Grey". "Wedding Crashers", www.imdb.com. 2005.
  • There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.

    "Insiders" with Barrie Cassidy, www.abc.net.au. September 1, 2013.
  • We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.

    Iron   Path   No Excuses  
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