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Quotes About Blame

It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.
~ Sal Mineo
The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank.
~ Robert Fogel
There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.
~ Philip Roth
I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
~ Benjamin Jowett
People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.
~ James Frey
I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.
~ Dwight Gooden
Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.
~ Clive James
WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.
~ Dave Eggers
Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
~ Albert Schweitzer
Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.
~ Alexander Lebedev
Shall love be blamed for want of faith?
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.
~ Bertrand Russell
People in great need were quick to find blame in themselves, quick to assume the burden of guilt for things they in truth had no control over and could not hope to change. It was, she had begun to understand, integral to the very nature of belief, of faith. A need that could not be answered by the self was then given over to someone or something greater than oneself, and this form of surrender was a lifting of a vast, terrible weight.
~ Steven Erikson
People in great need were quick to find blame in themselves, quick to assume the burden of guilt for things they in truth had no control over and could not hope to change.
~ Steven Erikson
Do you truly believe suicide belongs solely to the one taking his or her own life? All that rot about selfishness and self-hatred? The lies we tell ourselves to absolve us of all blame, of all the roles that we played in that wretched death?
~ Steven Erikson
Accord dissolves but blame is impossible to assign, leading to malaise, confusion and a vacuous resentment.
~ Steven Erikson
Guilt will do that.
~ Steven Erikson
You're not responsible for the evil others do," Dad said.
~ Steven Gould
Never blame a text from the Bible for your behavior. It's irresponsible. Anybody who says X, Y, and Z is in the bible - it's as if one says, 'I have no role in evaluating this.
~ Steven Greenberg
Even a battered child is sure that it's his fault that his parent beats him. He hopes someday to become good enough so that the beating will stop. I guess the scariest thing for a child to believe is that a parent might be wrong about him—or her.
~ Steven Levenkron
When you say anything controversial, you are likely to be blamed not so much for what you have said as for what people think that someone who has said what you said would also say.
~ Steven Weinberg
I felt her presence within me, yet part of me knows the desire was utterly mine, the selishness, the heartlessness, the lack of care. Jia smelled it out perhaps and attached herself to it, but I will not blame an elemental force for what took control of me that night. It would be too convenient.
~ Storm Constantine
We had given it a name, a substance, and somehow, in doing that, we had condemned ourselves.
~ Storm Constantine
We aren't to blame for our fears, but it is up to us to decide how we'll handle them. We are responsible for choosing ways that lead us toward making the most of this gift of life.
~ Sue Patton Thoele