No Excuses Quotes - Page 8

• There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

  James W. Loewen

  Book, Thinking, Pages

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Uplifting, Art, Bored

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

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• 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

  Real, Successful, Irritation

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

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• Ultimately, of course, there is no excuse for being fat in this culture. It's the one last prejudice we allow ourselves, the final frontier of acceptable segregation. Our political correctness is positively Californian when it comes to race, creed, origin, and orientation. But we still condemn ourselves and others for this last intolerable offense in an annoyingly tolerant society.

  Joni Rodgers

  Race, Political, Prejudice

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• Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our ethical vision. If our actions in the world are to stem from an encounter with what is central in life, they must be unclouded by either dogma or prevarication. 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.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Empathy, Risk, Vision

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• Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Teenage, Kids, Pigs

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• [Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.

  Margaret Cho

  Ideas, Needs, Fur

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• When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sex, Children, Lying

  Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

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• It's no fun to lose, ... We haven't lost in a while and now we get to remember what it feels like. Everybody wants to be undefeated and that's what we wanted. There are no excuses.

  Mark Richt

  Fun, Want, Remember

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• Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

  Charles Schumer

  America, Poison, Explanation

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• It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. One of my troubles is, I never care too much when I lose something - it used to drive mother crazy when I was a kid. Some guys spend days looking for something they've lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much. Maybe that's why I'm partly yellow. It's no excuse, though. It really isn't. What you should be is not yellow at all.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mother, Fun, Crazy

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Hands, Community, Society

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• We are capable of creating miracles ourselves and the greatest miracle is to create a masterpiece of joy out of your life with no excuses. The thing I focus on is going straight to heart. I go to mine first because if I don't feel it, you're not going to feel it. I take a deep breath and remind myself that before I give it to you I have to give it to myself.

  Carlos Santana

  Heart, Creating, Giving

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• There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

  William Morris

  Beautiful, Design, Interior Design

  May Morris, William Morris, Bernard Shaw (1936). “William Morris: artist, writer, socialist”

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

  Halle Berry

  Excuse, Sexuality, Comfortable

  "Halle Berry Is the Perfect Stranger". "MovieWeb" Interview, movieweb.com. April 9, 2007.

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• Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot.

  Thomas Sowell

  Self Esteem, Ignorance, People

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• Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

  Bobby Fischer

  Opponents, Chess, Losing

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• 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.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Children, Character, Hands

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• KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the company, we're trying a more personal approach.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Animal, Years, Two

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• Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.

  Ashley Montagu

  Pain, Eye, Animal

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• There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.

  C.P. Snow

  Mean, Understanding, Ignorant

  C.P. SNOW (1963). “THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK”

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• We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.

  Kyle Maynard

  Odds, Challenges, Battle

  Kyle Maynard (2012). “No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling And in Life”, p.208, Regnery Publishing

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• There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, Surprise, Coalitions

  "Insiders" with Barrie Cassidy, www.abc.net.au. September 1, 2013.

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• Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Mean, Government, Excess

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