Quotes About Blame

Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.

I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.

I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.

They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Sometimes the people you're trying hard to help end up being the first to blame you when something goes wrong. But you won't get hurt if you're doing it for God's sake.

Stop blaming others, whatever happens to you is nobody's fault if you get hurt because of disappointment is not the end of your life journey; there's always love waiting to embrace you when you least expected.

You can't blame a girl for falling in love. But you can blame the boy who tripped her, and didn't catch her like a man.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

All you ever did was watch woman suffer and blame her for it.

We deny responsibility for our actions when we attribute their cause to factors outside ourselves:

When our consciousness is focused on what we need, we are naturally stimulated toward creative possibilities for how to get that need met. In contrast, the moralistic judgements we use when blaming ourselves tend to obscure such possibilities and perpetuate a state of self-punishment.

The use of the common expression "have to", as in "There are some things you have to do, whether you like it or not," illustrates how personal responsibility for our actions can be obscured in speech. The phrase "makes one feel", as in "You make me feel guilty," is another example of how language facilitates denial of personal responsibility for own feelings and thoughts.

But for some reason, many people enjoy living in the past, especially if going back there lets them blame someone else for anything that's gone wrong in their lives. That's when clinging to the past becomes an interpersonal problem. We use the past as a weapon against others.

A leader who cannot shoulder the blame is not someone we will follow blindly into battle. We instinctively question that individual's character, dependability, and loyalty to us. And so we hold back on our loyalty to him or her.

Seldom are your critics actually disappointed with you. They are usually disappointed with themselves, their circumstances, or God. You are simply a convenient target. Wayne Cordeiro

Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole in one.

Trouble comes to those who bring it upon themselves, her mother used to say

Nixon bleeds people. He draws every drop of blood and then drops them from a cliff. He'll blame any person he can put his foot on.

Don't look at me like that's my fault. I'm just telling you shit I know.

He looked up to see Ranea staring at him, her eyes brilliant with rage. She said, "You did this." "No. I was here." In hindsight, he probably shouldn't have smiled when he said it.

If I fail, everything terrible that happens next will be my fault. That's the perfect, fitting end to my life, don't you think?" "If you fail, I promise not to tell anybody," he said.

It takes courage to be happy, you know-even when you keep moving. It takes guts to accept things as they really are and not blame life for being what it is.

To err is human; to blame it on the other guy is even more human. —Bob Goddard