Quotes About Blame

Right now Verna is blaming everyone. She's broken, she's terrified, and she's not rational. And, I'm not sure she's getting good advice. I got the impression these guys are sitting around the table, her table, scheming ways to sue anyone who's remotely connected to Hugo's death.

I cursed Mister for derailing my life. I cursed Mordecai for making me feel guilty. And Ontario for breaking my heart.

know who's at fault and I'm not blaming you. But it's hard to do our work with weak leadership, sometimes no leadership, and fading support from the legislature. The Governor couldn't care less what we do.

She was as responsible for his death as he was for hers. Above them, they left behind two fine children who didn't deserve to be punished for the sins of their parents.

then to shift the blame for it onto the shoulders of others.

Mary was not blamed by Elizabeth for causing this, the most serious rebellion of her reign—at least not yet.

It's a vicious cycle, Mr. Griffin, and I don't know how we'll get out of it. They put us low and then blame us for being down there and say that since we are low we can't deserve our rights.

I guess [Mrs. Reagan is] one of those many American adults of a certain advanced age who believe that the root of all evil lies in the area of young people's self-abuse. Someone should tell Mrs. Reagan that young people-- not even young people on drugs-- are not the ones responsible for the major problems besetting the world!

rape, Garp thought, made men feel guilty by association.

Irgend jemand sollte Mrs. Reagan sagen, dass keineswegs die jungen Leute - nicht einmal die Drogenkonsumenten unter ihnen - für die gewichtigsten Probleme, vor denen die Welt steht, verantwortlich sind!

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

No wonder you've turned on me so savagely. I suspect that you are using me as a scapegoat for your own feelings of guilt.

manslaughter, not murder.

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.