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Quotes About Blame

People wore different kinds of chains across their lifetimes, but it wasn't hard to interpret rebellion, even when the rebels wore costumes to deny blame.
~ Colson Whitehead
Take it out on each other if you cannot take it out on the ones who deserve
~ Colson Whitehead
But if people received their just portion of misfortune, what had she done to bring her troubles on herself?
~ Colson Whitehead
I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I cannot be guilty of something that other people have done, even if it is my parents or grandparents.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.
~ Viktor Emil Frankl
it would be very much a mistake to paint Ward as either innocent or a victim.
~ Vince Flynn
they were clearly in the wrong, it was Al Rudin they paraded out in
~ Vince Flynn
Degeneres animos timor arguit:
~ Virgil
Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.
~ Virginia Woolf
What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.
~ Virginia Woolf
What has seven editions (the book had already gone into no less) got to do with the value of it? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself — a voice answering a voice.
~ Virginia Woolf
He did not blame her; he blamed nothing, nobody; he saw the truth. He saw the dun-colored race of waters and the blank shore. But life is vigorous; the body lives, and the body, no doubt, dictated the reflection, which now urged him to movement, that one may cast away the forms of human beings, and yet retain the passion which seemed inseparable from their existence in the flesh.
~ Virginia Woolf
Everyone makes mistakes, Jenna. Everyone has regrets and guilt for things they should have done differently in their lives. Shit happens, and we do the best we can at the time. You can't blame yourself forever.
~ Lara Adrian
Everyone makes mistakes, Jenna. Everyone has regrets and guilt for things they should have done differently in their lives. Shit happens, and we do the best we can at the time. You can't blame yourself forever." His words soothed her,
~ Lara Adrian
It's no different in the spiritual realm. Our failures don't have to define us. It all depends on how we respond. If we curse our luck, blame others, and fail to take responsibility, we'll continue to fail. But if we face the facts, accept responsibility, and humbly get back on the right path, our failures can lay the groundwork for future success.
~ Larry Osborne
Sometimes the innocent suffer with the guilty. They can get caught in the backwash.
~ Larry Osborne
We take too much credit when the walls of Jericho cave in and too much blame when our Ai's can't be conquered.
~ Larry Osborne
The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
~ larson doug
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.
~ larson doug ii
Watanabe would later admit that in the beginning of his life in exile, he had pondered the question of whether or not he had committed any crime. In the end, he laid the blame not on himself but on "sinful, absurd, insane war." He saw himself as a victim.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Arthur Drysdale had come into the emergency room with a stab wound to his right thigh. He blamed the attack on a mysterious intruder, a home invasion in which nothing was taken. He said he came home to find a strange man in the house and the man grabbed a pair of scissors and jammed them into his leg.
~ Laura Lippman
Eliza: The problem with YOU is that you don't take the RESPONSIBILITY for anything@ You think you can just run around, doing whatever you want to whoever you want, and that it's going to be fine. That everything is just going to be TAKE CARE of for you, with no consequences. Cooper: No. I don't, and I have had consequences from what happened with me and you. Eliza: Yeah? Like what? Cooper: I lost you, that was my consequence.
~ Lauren Barnholdt
It's definitely broken," my mom says [...] "Maybe it's unplugged or something," [...] "Honey, it's broken," my mom says. She sounds like she's trying to break it to me gently. I can't really blame her. The other day she told me there was no more vanilla ice cream, and I burst into tears right in the middle of the kitchen. She obviously knows I'm fragile.
~ Lauren Barnholdt