“What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many - nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others.” IfsShouldYearsStillsReasonMightNextGivenProductsBenefitsOvercomingBiggerIncreaseExcusePreservesReason WhyConsumerismPreparingHarvestNext YearAvariceNo ExcusesOverconsumptionWarehouse Author:Ambrose
“We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.” ShouldDecisionLeaderRepublicanCongressConservativeExcuseParliamentaryMaking ExcusesParliamentary System Author:David Frum
“She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out of a soiled chemise.” PeopleShouldStepsCivilizationExcuseNakedClothingsWorldlyRelieved Book:Cross Creek Source: Cross Creek
“There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.” PeopleShouldUseCommunityCompanyWasteMajorsRiversExcuseOilChemicalsToxicNo ExcusesDumpEcoSpadesPipelineSewageToxic WasteRefinery Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these."” IfsKnowsShouldPersonsMotivationalParticularFaultsExcuseDefenseBotherJust Smile Author:Epictetus
“The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel, down to the roots of our being, their pressure and their sting. Whose hunger has ever been [sated] with the knowledge that he could not eat?” FeelsShouldMeanRootsPressureFinalsHungerExcuseAssuranceCallousnessSated Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset