quotes about Blame
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Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.
-- Abdallah II -
Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.
-- Abraham FoxmanSource : "Jackson Told To Apologize for "Anti-Semitic Rant" by wenn.com, November 25, 2005.
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Satan wants to cripple me and then blame me for limping.
-- Adrian Rogers -
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Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.
-- Aesop -
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.
-- Alain de Botton -
I am partly to blame for the decking boom, and I am sorry, I know it?s everywhere these days.
-- Alan Titchmarsh -
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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.
-- Alanis Morissette -
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein -
Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.
-- Albert Ellis -
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We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.
-- Albert Ellis -
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
-- Alexander Pope -
And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.
-- Algernon Charles SwinburneSource : 'An Interlude'
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Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others.
-- Amish Tripathi -
Blaming none, disrespecting nothing is the doorway to Unity Consciousness.
-- Amit Ray -
If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael -
How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
-- Amy TanSource : Amy Tan (1992). “The Kitchen God's wife”, Thorndike Pr
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The less you blame others the more you will succeed.
-- Anabel Jensen -
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
-- Angela Carter -
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
-- Anita Brookner -
Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
-- Anna FreudSource : Anna Freud, Dorothy T. Burlingham (1967). “The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956”
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You got a lot but you just waste all yourself. They'll forget your name soon and won't nobody be to blame but yourself.
-- Azealia BanksSource : Song: 212 ftLazy Jay, Album: 1991, 2012
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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.
-- Barbara Mertz -
We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.
-- Barbara Taylor BradfordSource : FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Aug 24, 2014
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
-- Barbara Walters -
We only have one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck -
I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.
-- Bernard GoldbergSource : "Bernie Goldberg Explains Why We Should Be Thanking Rich Americans". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2010.
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For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
-- Bernard MalamudSource : Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.173, Atlantic Books Ltd
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I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.
-- Beverly Sills -
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
-- Bill Crawford -
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
-- Bill Parcells -
If you don't do your part, don't blame God.
-- Billy SundaySource : Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”
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It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.
-- Blaine Nye -
I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.
-- Brian Andreas -
Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.
-- Brian Tracy -
Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.
-- Brian Tracy -
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Winners take responsibility, losers blame others.
-- Brit Hume -
You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.
-- Bum Phillips -
It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good
-- Cab Calloway -
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.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
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The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.
-- Carl Rogers -
Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.
-- Caroline Myss -
I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
-- Catherine the GreatSource : "The Historians' History of the World". Book by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423, 1903.
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Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.
-- Catherine the GreatSource : Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.74
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Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.
-- Chaka FattahSource : "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. February 8, 2005.
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At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I'm not satisfied with how I look on the runway.
-- Chanel Iman -
No blame, no hate - why no communication?
-- Charlaine Harris -
When blame has been assigned, the story is over.
-- Charles BaxterSource : Charles Baxter (1997). “Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction”
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Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
-- Chaz Bono -
There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on.
-- Christian Finnegan -
It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.
-- Chuck DSource : Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications
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I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
-- Claude Monet -
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I've only myself to blame. It would be easy for me to blame others but I have to look at myself.
-- Craig Bellamy -
When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.
-- Craig Ferguson -
Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him.
-- Craig Groeschel -
Don't blame yourself for the declines, because one day you will credit yourself for the increases.
-- Craig Groeschel -
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If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.
-- Dan Castellaneta -
It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.
-- Dan Millman -
And so now you think society is to blame for the mess you made of yourself?
-- Deacon Jones -
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When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
-- Deepak Chopra -
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.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.
-- Denis Waitley -
The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.
-- Dido Armstrong -
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Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?
-- DiogenesSource : "Anthology (Book 3)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.
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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
-- Diogenes -
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
-- Don Shula -
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.
-- Edmund Gosse -
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.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?
-- Eileen WilksSource : Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.15, Penguin
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How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?
-- Elif Safak -
Learning by example is valid, but when you have the information to know that turning in a certain direction can lead you to a very wrong place, most of the "blame" is on the individual.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.
-- Epictetus -
It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.
-- Epictetus -
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
-- Eric Hoffer -
can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!
-- Eric Jerome Dickey -
How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
-- Erica Jong -
I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.
-- Fidel Castro -
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You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun
-- Fiona AppleSource : Song: Limp, Album: When The Pawn..., 1999
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How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.
-- Francis Frangipane -
Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that’s really chewing on us.
-- Frank Herbert -
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We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.
-- Frans de WaalSource : Frans de Waal (2006). “Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are”, p.11, Penguin
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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
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.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
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If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.
-- George Best -
And God said 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'
-- George Burns -
How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.
-- George Eliot -
Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.
-- George W. BushSource : First Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 10 November 2001, U.N. Headquarters, New York
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I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?
-- Georges BatailleSource : Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape
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I'm really happy with where I am, the movies in my life. Not satisfied, necessarily. But I won't put it on somebody else, blame anybody else for my position in the business. It's the choices I have made.
-- Giovanni RibisiSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I'll tell you something,' she said. 'I'm not sure I ever really liked him.' Adam?' I said. 'I don't blame you.' 'Not Adam,' she said, struggling to swallow a greedily chomped chunk. 'God.
-- Glen DuncanSource : Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.55, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.
-- Glenn Beck -