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Quotes About Blame

It's very easy to diagnose a borderline. They screw you over, rip you off, commit whatever transgression, and then they blame you for it.
~ Christiane Northrup M.D.
The bottom line is, you cannot be a producer unless you understand that it's all your fault.
~ Christine Vachon
She's crushed,' McLeod said. 'That's why she came forward. She blames herself for what happened to Anezka.
~ Christopher Brookmyre
a big boy did it and ran away
~ Christopher Brookmyre
People lose faith in their political institutions, which can't control the scale and rate of technological disruptions, blaming politicians for events that few fully understand and all have limited ability to influence. The role of thinkers and writers amid these whirlwind of disruptions is to provide context and meaning to these forces and reveal how they are shaping modern choices about life.
~ Christopher G. Moore
Because the doctors could not cure me, they decided I could not be sick. They told me it was all in my head. Namely, I was to blame. I was the sickness.
~ Heidi Julavits
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential?
~ Heidi Julavits
To be melancholy is to be self-haunted, and among the many reasons this is an unsatisfactory explanation for living inside a jam jar inside an aquarium, foremost among them is that there are no good stories to tell of your bleak time in a beautiful place, and no specter to blame for the fact that happiness, though it should have been inescapable, evaded you.
~ Heidi Julavits
Their brothers are their heroes, and if anything happens to William Saunders or Robert Young, Kenneth and Larry might blame everyone around them, because we're the citizens those men will have died for, and maybe they won't believe we were worth it. Are we? Have we ever been worth it, any of the times before?
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.
~ Helen Rowland
He fell back. He had cried out so loud that even if there had been no breach in the wall, I should have heard him in my room. He voiced his whole dream, he threw it out passionately. This sincerity, which was indifferent to everything, had a definite significance which bruised my heart. "Forgive me. Forgive me. It is almost a blasphemy. I could not help it." He stopped. You felt his will-power making his face calm, his soul compelling him to silence, but his eyes seem to mourn.
~ Henri Barbusse
Låt inte någon välja ut dina syndabockar. Det är din sak. Om den skulle sammanfalla med någon annans syndabock, dussintals eller fler, byt bock. Den kan inte vara din.
~ Henri Michaux
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
~ Henry Kissinger
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
~ Henry Kissinger
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
~ Henry Kissinger
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
~ Henry Louis Gates
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
Es el cirujano quien carga con toda la responsabilidad, pese a toda la cháchara sobre la cultura libre de culpa.
~ Henry Marsh
it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.
~ Leo Tolstoy
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.
~ Leo Tolstoy
No teško je nezadovoljnu ?ovjeku da ne kori bilo koga drugoga, i to upravo onoga tko mu je najbliži, za ono zbog ?ega je nezadovoljan.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.
~ Leo Tolstoy
For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.
~ Leo Tolstoy