Blame Quotations | Page 12

They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

I really wanted to talk about the War on Terror and say that both sides were completely incompetent [in addressing it]. You can't blame the other side when you're involved in it.

Introverts tend to internalize problems. In other words, we place the source of problems within and blame ourselves. Though introverts may also externalize and see others as the problem, it's more convenient to keep the problem "in house." Internalizers tend to be reliable and responsible, but we can also be very hard on ourselves.

We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.

You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion.

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Rwanda has its own problems and never sought to blame others or cause others trouble. I advise Burundi to do the same.

Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.

I suppose I should make a little apology to Cyndi - although I'm not taking the blame for this - because I was the one who did say Cyndi had won.

Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

You set us up!” “No! I swear—” Her face fell. “Mel. Mel must’ve told him.” “Right,” I grumbled. “Blame Mel.

The blame is on me...I knew you were trouble when you walked in..

No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

I always say that it's very important not to blame one person. You have to own whatever part of it you're responsible for. It takes a lot of soul-searching. It's important to go through that, because hopefully you won't repeat yourself.

Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.

The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.

Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.

Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

Blaming guns for murder is like blaming forks for obesity.

What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.

When I talk about divorce, I am not blaming the women I've married. It's not their fault.

Where would the Republican Party being without talk radio the last 25 years? And yet who now is enemy number one? Talk radio! I don't know what I did to Michael Gerson, but he's back again in the Washington Post blaming everything [Donald] Trump on me.

It's easy to blame other people when things aren't going well.

The grievance industry always seeks to blame other people while never finding a solution. That's my problem with it, when solutions are there to be had.

Do not Blame the world. Find a solution.

We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can blame them. That's not good, either.

I don't blame the players, I don't blame the parents, I blame programs and I blame the coaches.

There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason . . . She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.

Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH! And look around ...can you blame us?!

Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

I don't blame Bill Maher for mocking religion. I can see why he took the trouble to make the movie. In one sense, it's overdue.

What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka" she asked. "I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied.

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.

The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.

He’s playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. Don’t blame me because he’s a better manipulator than I am — I haven’t been around long enough to learn all his tricks.

Batterers aren't renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts.

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.

Fine, than I will not have to blame you for killing my friends with your stupidity. -Haymitch

there's plenty of blame to go around.

You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.

I.. know what I do, and am unmoved by men's blame, or their praise either.

Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don't make yourself a victim of yourself!

When it's all you, you can't blame a bear. You gotta bear the burden yourself.

I blame it on my mother. She was a born entertainer. Leave the songwriting, the singing and all that behind, and I still would have found some way to be an entertainer. I would have never been an actress, though, because I realized early in my life, in like sixth grade, I was a terrible actress.

Life is to blame for everything.

Blame keeps wounds open; only forgiveness heals

In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.

Oh! blame not the bard.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!

Folks, if you give people things for free, don't blame them for taking them.

Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

my parents ... had decided early on that all of the problems in my family had somehow to do with me. All roads led to Roseyville, a messy, chaotic town where, as parents, they were required to visit, but could never get out of quick enough or find a decent parking place.

What are you going to do with your freedom?

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

You cannot blame everything on the enemy.

We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.

I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

Don't make excuses, make good.

Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by an

Kate would have Thomas, no one blame her can: Tom won't have Kate, and who can blame the Man?

Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.

Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be

Blame it on a simple twist of fate.