Blame Quotations | Page 2

A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.

My understanding of God does not permit me to accept that every bad or good thing that occurs is a reward or punishment. There are times when bad things happen to good people, ... We need consolation, not anger; love, not hate. The God I serve and pray to daily has charged me not to blame but to help.

Ontario is not growing as fast as other areas. Is it appropriate to blame that on equalization? I would say no,

I was surprised, but I knew he was having a bit of a tough adjustment here, ... But there are a lot of guys who decided to call it a career after the lockout. You can't blame a guy for trying to come back and being 100 percent sure.

I was surprised, but I knew he was having a bit of a tough adjustment here. But there are a lot of guys who decided to call it a career after the lockout. You can't blame a guy for trying to come back and being 100 percent sure.

If we get that touchdown, we're up 7-6 going into the half, and the game is different. There's too many opportunities that we blew, and we blew them -- all 11 of us. It's not one guy, it's the entire offensive unit. We take blame for everything each other does.

If we don't get in, we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

If we don't get in, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. We had our chances. We had our chance to beat New York at New York for the division lead.

I guess I somewhat question Bridgestone's strategy to blame Ford and their refusal to acknowledge the magnitude of the problem. They said it's a tiny fraction of their tires that were affected, but people have died,

Nick went out there and took a bunch of shot early but got tired and ran out of gas. I'll take the blame on that one because we should have wrestled Larry (Reichard). I thought Nick had a good week of practice and maybe knee-wise he was ready to go out there but conditioning-wise he wasn't.

I would be to afraid to be caught downloading music. I may consider it, if I thought I could get away with it. I think CD's are overpriced. I don't blame people that illegally download. I don't do it myself, though.

I wouldn't blame it all on the coaches. I will take some of the blame, also. We just weren't seeing eye to eye.

I wouldn't blame it all on the coaches. I will take some of the blame also. We just weren't seeing eye to eye. It was one of those situations where the coaches are going to be always right and the player is never right. They decided not to play me, and I had to live with it.

I wouldn't blame or place fault on anyone, having honesty and integrity is everyone's' job.

When I lived at home, I used to go out and not come back 'til three o'clock the next afternoon. I'm not so bad now, but I still like a party. I blame Bryan - he's a bad influence!

We can no more blame it on good Middle Eastern citizens than we can blame Hitler on people of German descent,

Like a quarterback for a football team, CEOs get to take all of the credit when things go well and have to take all of the blame when things go badly. Yet legally, they are not held accountable. When a quarterback fumbles, throws a few interceptions, maybe even throws the game, the coach has a responsibility to bench him, so that no more follies will occur.

One of the things people want us to do here is play the blame game, ... We got to solve problems. There will be ample time to figure out what went right and what went wrong.

No. No. No. No, ... I'm not going to do that. If I did that, I'm blaming (starting quarterback Perry Patterson). I'm not going to blame him.

One is the pin the blame on the media with the references to the tabloid spectacle, ... One is the assertion of full cooperation with the police. One is the carving of a moat around his private life. And one is the use of constructive ambiguity with references to not being perfect but with no explanation for what those imperfections are.

No one person is to blame for something like that. We gave up as corner kick and we were not able to clear the ball. That kind of misfortune can take the fire out of you a little bit. But I think we showed if we fix a few things, we can play with the big teams.

No one is a failure until they blame somebody else.

Of course, he's upset. But he couldn't blame anybody and didn't want to blame anybody. When he loses, he blames himself.

Of course I'm very disappointed to have made the mistake on Friday that dropped us down to eighth overall - especially for the team. I can only blame myself.

No-one wanted to take the blame for cutting 7,000 jobs.

No one wants the blame for the bad decisions and everybody fights for the credit on the good decisions, ... When you need a consensus, what happens is maybe this year I side with you and the next year I side with another guy to balance things out. That's not making the best decision for the franchise.

Maybe they just got caught up in the hype. I'm just trying to keep my head straight. It's just going to be another kick for me. I'm going to have a good snap, I'm going to have a good hold, it's going to be all me. I'm not going to be able to blame anyone.

Politicians cannot shake off responsibility and then when something is successful they take the merit but when something goes wrong they blame the workers.

(Police) told me they were certain it was him, and that's why I testified. That was bad to blame someone that was not there.

No doubt we will once more be accused of disruption but ... the blame once again lies squarely with management trying to impose rather than negotiate.

Now they're starting to understand why we're doing things, not just, 'What's my assignment?' So I think it will start coming along faster. Early on I think we had a bad approach, and you can blame me. The players were trying to memorize everything.

Obviously, I'm not feeling real good. I didn't really prepare the kids as well as I probably should have. I thought we were ready, but obviously we weren't. I'm not going to blame the kids. The kids played hard.

I don't guess I really blame him for that.

I have been out for so long that I would not blame him for not knowing who I am. I hope that by Saturday evening that he has the same respect for me that I have for him.

If the situation is coming apart quicker than expected, you can blame it on liquidity and management's inability to communicate and tell a good story.

If things don't work out, blame me, because I'm in charge.

If this bill goes down, it will be the fault of my own party, and that's where the blame will lie,

I don't know where the blame or responsibility lies. Somebody should be held accountable, without question. We're in a playoff race. What happens if we miss by one point?

I don't know what it is. I try to blame the rims, they're real tight, but that's the second game it's cost us. We lost two games because of free throws. Even if we shot a little bit better in the second half, like we did yesterday, it would have been better.

If they lose the election they blame the leader then they undermine the leader, then they lose again, it's a vicious circle. If they replace the leader now it confirms the party is in disarray.

If they chose to act like a pariah, they can't blame the international community for treating them like one.

Lax and completely ineffective regulations are really to blame for this state of affairs.

We're not consistent for 48 minutes in what we're doing, and it's our fault. We can't blame Case. We can't blame anybody but ourselves, starting with me.

The plaintiffs want to blame the Port Authority for the murderous acts of fanatical terrorists who schemed for years and traveled thousands of miles

When you assess what Marvin does over the course of the game, he is one of our biggest threats on the ice. He leads the country in shots on net, and he's threatening in every shift that he is out there. You can't blame this on Marvin. That was a tough play.

Lovingly crafted and super-creative cupcakes are not exactly on tap in my household after a full day at work, and I do not blame my mother for a second that they were not on tap in hers, either.

Mr. Greenspan is at least partly to blame for the turnaround in the fiscal position here -- his musings on the problems of ever-increasing surpluses were a clear green light to Congress to cut taxes.

Mr. Martin ... is entitled, like other ministers in the Quebec caucus, to be exonerated from any blame for carelessness or misconduct,

Mr. Martin...is entitled, like other ministers in the Quebec caucus, to be exonerated from any blame for carelessness or misconduct,

Mr. Martin, whose role as finance minister did not involve him in the supervision of spending by the PMO or (Public Works) is entitled, like other ministers in the Quebec caucus, to be exonerated from any blame for carelessness or misconduct.

Maybe we should have come out with a zone in the second half to stop their dribble penetration. Our guards were not responsible for that, coach Turco was. I'll take the blame for that.

Mistakes cost you, and we had a few that really hurt us today. It wasn't just on that goal that got waived off, but we had five blue shirts standing around watching two (Tech goals) on rebounds when our goalie didn't know where the puck was. We have no one to blame there but ourselves.

Mike's in a tough spot. There were some big expectations for this team, and they have to get it back on the right track. So I don't blame him.

Since we have this blame game now going in full force in Washington, do you, personally, think it was a good idea for the state of Louisiana to deliberately block Red Cross supplies from the Super Dome and the convention center last week in an attempt, in effect, to starve out the evacuees there?

Most of the time, it's probably not a bug bite. I blame the plants, which makes my botanist friends mad.

Sen. Vitter worked in this House for six years and knows its leadership, ... He has placed the blame squarely at their feet, and I think they owe the entire Gulf Coast an explanation.

She's the youngest of all the housewives, and the rest of them have been around the block and done the fame thing before. But at the same time, she's 30, so she's waited a long time for this, too. It's very exciting and you can't really blame her.

She's scared. She's upset. She's not wanting to leave my side and I don't blame her one bit.

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

There were a lot of people who were a little afraid of the rage or blaming stance I was taking, and find what I am doing now more refreshing.

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.

We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.

It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.

If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't make it so complex yourself. But if your program doesn't work, there is no one to hide behind. You cannot hide behind an obstinate nature. If it doesn't work, you've messed up.

I hate to say it but some may seek to the blame the airlines and airports.

I have an open door policy when it comes to blame

Guaranteed, it's going to happen. It's not if, it's when. And when it happens, the key thing to remember is -- don't blame the shark.

Jack's teams will always be prepared. They came out ready and we came out sluggish. I take the blame for this loss. I never should have kept us in that zone defense. We've got to be able to play our style of ball. I'm going to learn from this game.

Jake had a great year, and I don't see any reason for anybody to put all the blame on him. Anybody that's a real football person who saw the game would understand that. But unfortunately, he's the one that has to take the brunt of it all. But that's why he gets paid the big bucks.

He, like the rest of us, has a lot of things going on. He's in a position of power, he's the head coach, and ultimately he takes a lot of the blame for what happened this season. But he has a lot of decisions to make, just like a lot of guys on the team have a lot of decisions to make. I'm waiting to see what happens.

Idaho Power is making this issue very public, and is adamant about gaining support any way they can. While they are quick to blame H.B. 800 for the recent drop in their credit rating, they should really be blaming themselves. Their tactics only earned them negative publicity, and they shouldn't be surprised that their credit rating reflects that.

I did have a wrist problem last year. I don't like to blame that, but I couldn't really get extension or anything because of my wrist. Just feeling a lot stronger and healthier coming into this year will help me out a lot.

Frankly, its hard to blame the Legislature this session because the department took no initiative to put on the table that wide range of actions.

I don't think anyone in this locker room solely puts the blame on Kyle Orton. As a defense, we didn't make any plays. I gave up 14 points. I think the blame is on ourselves, the team, not just one particular person.

Frustrating, I take the blame for Richmond. I got in over my head a little bit and I messed up my qualifying, something that is pretty simple. I just got down too low and made a driver mental error. And from there we were behind the eight ball. We had a big media day announcing General Mills and with everything else going on I just want to forget about that day all together. Then Dover, I felt really comfortable, we qualified really well, and I felt if we could just get some laps it would be so much experience, and to have that happen on lap 12 is really frustrating.

If Canadians wanted a majority government they would have had a majority government. The Liberals have done nothing, achieved nothing, they're going nowhere and they're trying to blame other people.

If we think it's going to be easy, we're making a big mistake, ... The body language, the reactions, it was not the D.C. United I know. I'm going to blame myself because it's my job to prepare this team and tonight I think I did a bad job.

I got caught up with the referees. I'll take the blame on that.

I earned every single thing that I have, and I've lost things as a result of me, so I don't blame anybody but Dionne, she's the one who has to stand in that space and produce whatever has to be produced.

GM is the most vertically integrated auto manufacturer in the world, and some people blame that, or attribute at least part of the blame of GM's cost structure to its internal components operation.

If a square peg doesnt fit a round hole, neither the peg nor the hole is to blame. Between two people, the question "whose fault is it?" is the friend of argumentation and the destroyer of growth-oriented communication. Assigning blame involves listening to criticize and responding to defend, speaking to lower the other person rather than speaking to build each up. Relational progress is impossible as long as blame is the focus because blame and progress are enemies. In our litigation-hungry society we must take care that focusing on fault - which is proper for the courtroom - doesnt carry over into interpersonal relationships. The heart of loving communication is listening to understand.

From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.

For those who blame society, might I remind you what you are a member of?