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Quotes About Recrimination

An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.
~ Frank Serpico
Most people are impulsive, however, and having committed to the thing, they persist, just making more confusion for themselves and others until it all end in mutual recrimination.
~ Epictetus
I live in fear of making an honest mistake in conversation followed by some kind of Maoist-style recrimination session.
~ Amity Gaige
A U.S. president who is elected amid controversy and recrimination, reviled by a large segment of the electorate, and mired in domestic crises will be hard-pressed to forge a coherent foreign policy and challenge Russia.
~ Fiona Hill
There was always something going on in the background—some plotting or mulling over some slight or lack of attention, quite unintended, of course, but noted and filed away for subsequent scrutiny. And much of the time men would be unaware of it, until it all came out in a torrent of recrimination and tears.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As I looked at the child on the bed, I forgot the language of guilt and recrimination.
~ Anne Rice
todos los ojos de todos los niños de todas las guerras eran una larga recriminación sin palabras al mundo de los adultos.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It wasn't that she didn't love me, I knew that she did, and that actually made it worse. If someone leaves you because they don't love you, it's a tough break, but as they say, life's a bitch, get a helmet. But if someone loves you and leaves you anyway, you enter a whole new realm of self-doubt and recrimination, what psychologists call the what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-me syndrome.
~ Jonathan Tropper
But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination … then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.
~ Graham Greene
Little Axe's records are wracked with collective grief. Spectral harmonicas resemble howling wolves; echoes linger like wounds that will never heal; the voices of the living harmonise with the voices of the dead in songs thick with reproach, recrimination and the hunger for redemption.
~ Mark Fisher
I know President Obama and Secretary Clinton are committed to bringing America together. This needs to be a time of redemption, not a time of recrimination.
~ Paul Ryan
Can't you just relax," she asked him, "just for a little while?" "The rules—" "Everyone else—" "I cannot be everyone else!" Dalinar said, more sharply than he intended. "If I ignore our code and ethics, what am I, Navani? The other highprinces and lighteyes deserve recrimination for what they do, and I have let them know it. If I abandon my principles, then I become something far worse than they. A hypocrite!
~ Brandon Sanderson
Preoccupation with self is always a major component of unhealthy guilt and recrimination.
~ Brennan Manning
evidently what he was subsisting on was rage and recrimination. When interviewed on whether that was a sustainable traditional diet, a Shoshone elder looked into the camera and shrugged, said it had kept him going for eighty-eight years so far, hadn't it?
~ Stephen Graham Jones
Unless the immigration issue is tackled in a constructive way, Mexico and the United States will probably revert to a historic cycle of confrontation and recrimination.
~ Denise Dresser
No es lo mismo estar dormido que estar durmiendo, de la misma manera que no es lo mismo estar jodido que estar jodiendo. -- En respuesta al senador y mosén Lluis María Xirinacs que le recriminaba estar dormido en su escaño del senado. --
~ Camilo Jose Cela
Every once in a while with Twitter, you find something that breaks through the bilge and recrimination. Or sometimes, something finds you. One night, 'The Mechanics of History' found me.
~ Wesley Morris
men call it the tyranny of tears, it is an iron tyranny- no man could be so cruel, so devishlish,as a woman with her weakness, recrimination, convenient ailments, nerves and tears. We men are all weak as water before the primitive devices of Eve. I was patient at first, many years. '
~ Christina Stead
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
~ Samuel Beckett
People feel they can say nasty things and have anonymity behind the net - as they did with all the nasty comments about me - without fear of recrimination.
~ Nicola Roberts
Like many city dwellers, they'd had the mistaken belief that spying was only really bad in Berlin and that decency still prevailed in small towns. And like many city dwellers, they had made the painful discovery that recrimination, eavesdropping, and informing were ten times worse in the small towns than in the big city. In a small town everyone was fully exposed; you couldn't even disappear in the crowd.
~ Hans Fallada
Men call it the tyranny of tears, it is an iron tyranny—no man could be so cruel, so devilish, as a woman with her weakness, recrimination, convenient ailments, nerves, and tears. We men are all weak as water before the primitive devices of Eve.
~ Christina Stead