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“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.”

People Should Use Community Company Waste Majors Rivers Excuse Oil Chemicals Toxic No Excuses Dump Eco Spades Pipeline Sewage Toxic Waste Refinery

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“So many people say, "I just don't have a good job, or my marriage is not where it's supposed to be." Really it's excuse after excuse to not be happy. To me it's a waste. I'm going to look at what's right and not what's wrong in my life. I'm alive, I'm healthy, and you know, a good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.”

People Knows Looks Jobs Remember Alive Healthy Waste Good Things Excuse Supposed To Be Good Job I'm Alive

Author:Joel Osteen

“There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.”

Waste Abuse Excuse Defense Budgets Department Fraud No Excuses

Author:John Bolton

“There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.”

Looks May Two Reason Sea Waste Rivers Fishes Excuse Boat Shops Lakes Fishing Dealer Platonic

Author:Arthur Ransome

“capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.”

Made Country Results Waste Economics Trade Notion Excuse Spending Saving Substance Decrease Extravagance Spendthrift

Book:Political Economy for Beginners

Source: Political Economy for Beginners

“We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and for each other. It is either that or continue merely to think and talk about changes that we are inviting catastrophe to make. The great obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we cannot change because we are dependant on what is wrong. But that is the addict's excuse, and we know that it will not do.”

Thinking Knows Waste Conviction Excuse Obstacles Consumerism Catastrophe Addict Inviting Overconsumption

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays

“There is no waste of time like making excuses.”

Waste Excuse Wasting Time Making Excuses

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.”

Ifs Stories Life Is Waste Excuse Misfortunes Wasting Time Looking Back No Excuses Don't Waste Time

Author:Junior Seau

“Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question "What on earth is he up to now?" will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, "I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks.”

Knows Men Trying May Mean Said Earth Remember Wish Attention Teach Dog Waste Lays Excuse Tricks Experiments Devotion Performing Peter Sheep Rats Novelty

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. What’s there to like? (Solin) There’s brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much as I hate the gods. Both groups are selfish bastards bent on destroying everything around them. They were given a perfect world and rather than enjoy it, they’d rather destroy it and each other. Excuse me if I don’t look at them with love in my eyes but rather scorn in my heart. (Solin)”

“Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Emmett asked eagerly. "No! Of course not!" "No, not really? You really didnt attack him?" "Emmett!" I protested. "Aw, what a waste. And here you're probably the one person who could take him- since he can't get into your head to cheat- and you had a perfect excuse too. I've been dying to see how he'd do without that advantage.”

Persons Courses Perfect Dying Couple Waste Advantage Excuse Cheat

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Waiting for my real life to start is no excuse to waste the life I have right now.”

Real Waiting Right Now Waste Excuse Real Life No Excuses

Author:Susane Colasanti

“you gotta think it’s a waste of—” “Ray!” I glanced around, but there was nobody within earshot. “Well, excuse me if I’m not used to buying condoms for aliens,” he said more softly. “They’re not aliens.” “Well, they’re not human. I mean, they could have anything under those tunics, you know?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Humans Wells Mean Said Used Waste Excuse Aliens Buying Rays Excuse Me Condom

Author:Karen Chance