{"quotes":[{"text":"Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alibi","creativity","escapade","escape","escapee","freelance","freelancer","great-mind","intellect","michael-bassey-johnson","pen","publishing","random-thought","refuge","scribble","writer","writers","writing"],"id":3125,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Don't ever accuse anyone of being full of pride, undignified and unprofessional when simply they are wise to move away from dishonest schemers.Dishonesty comprise too of layers of lies simply casted for impressive appearances. There are times too that corrupt hearts have their own confused, modified, self-affirming, pro-self interest business inclined definitions of 'professionalism, integrity, dignity and pride.","author":"Angelica Hopes","tags":["alibi","dishonesty","excuses","keeping-up-appearances","lies","misjudgment","schemer","wolf"],"id":81056,"author_id":"Angelica+Hopes"},{"text":"Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.","author":"Luigina Sgarro","tags":["alibi","love","reason"],"id":101631,"author_id":"Luigina+Sgarro"},{"text":"Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of the nature of an alibi that is here attempted to be proved, namely, the absence of a dead body by supernatural means,) and had they given their evidence in the same contradictory manner as it is here given, they would have been in danger of having their ears cropt for perjury, and would have justly deserved it. Yet this is the evidence, and these are the books, that have been imposed upon the world as being given by divine inspiration, and as the unchangeable word of God.","author":"Thomas Paine","tags":["alibi","contradictory","court","divine-inspiration","evidence","proof","resurrection","resurrection-of-christ","supernatural","word-of-god"],"id":152452,"author_id":"Thomas+Paine"},{"text":"Habitual excuses for inactivity indicates little or no interest in what one ought to have done.","author":"Itohan Eghide","tags":["alibi","apology","cover","coverup","curiosity","depression","done","enthusiasm","excuses","habit","interest","laziness","leisure","lethargy","lifeless","lifelessness","moment","pessimism","pursuit","rationalization","reason","story"],"id":175709,"author_id":"Itohan+Eghide"},{"text":"Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.","author":"Sue Grafton","tags":["alibi","chilling","dinner","family","murder"],"id":188832,"author_id":"Sue+Grafton"},{"text":"Honesty whispers, 'Don't get pricked by the thorns of lie.","author":"Angelica Hopes","tags":["alibi","dishonesty","excuses","honesty","lie","traitor"],"id":229723,"author_id":"Angelica+Hopes"},{"text":"When people say they're too busy, ask them If they'll have time to die, and see If dead's gonna give a damn.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alibi","busy","busybodies","confusion","damn","death","excuse","excuses","fuck","occupied","pride","time"],"id":248993,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"An alibi is one alliterative consonant short of being a magic carpet.","author":"Josh Stern","tags":["absurd","alibi","carpet","consonant","humor","magic"],"id":268448,"author_id":"Josh+Stern"},{"text":"And then the other guy will look really sheepish, and mumble that, okay, maybe he tried to make a run for it, and maybe he took a drunken swing at the arresting officer, and maybe he made a couple of off-color remarks about law-enforcement professionals, and maybe he’s been hiding from the cops ever since an incident a few years back involving a bleeding hooker, nine pounds of cocaine, and a soiled image of Tipper Gore.","author":"Phillip Andrew Bennett Low","tags":["alibi","cops","humor","libertarian","political","tipper-gore"],"id":324315,"author_id":"Phillip+Andrew+Bennett+Low"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}