Richelle Mead Quotes

I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

An excuse is sometimes more ugly than guilt.

Making excuses is not my profile or that of Madrid.

No excuses; those were just weak.

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor.

We have 40 million reasons for our failure but not one excuse.

Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

If someone has it inside them to commit an act, then that act would be committed anyway. It's very easy for someone to place the blame on something other than the person who committed the act. It's people looking for scapegoats, you know?

I am not irresponsible.

Delusion and denial does not equal an apology.

We all have excuses. We could all take all of the things that have happened to us over the course of our lives and use them as excuses for being cruel to others.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

To be fair to Monica," I said, "what you did to her wasn't very nice either." "What'd I do to her?" he asked, defensive. "You know, going blind and everything." "But that's not my fault," Isaac said. "I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.

Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.

So don't blame me for the problems. You can't fault me for it. You can't blame me. You want to blame me but I'm just trying to express what is going on, and trying to keep America open to it.