Quotes About Blame

To us] The only thing worse than trying to kill yourself and failing is having to talk to your mom after trying to kill yourself and failing-- particularly when she knows deep down somewhere it's at least partially her fault, but her mouth and brain have never actually formed the phrase "I'm sorry" in her entire life, so here you are, with nothing but a berry smoothie between you, and... and...

The Shop City Mall had been closed for over a decade. Stores sat empty the entire time, waiting for a rebirth that was often promised, but never came. My parents had always blamed its demise on Amazon and Target, but I blamed the fact that Cinnabon is fucking gross and not a single living person has ever bought anything from a Brookstone.

Lorsqu'on ne peut attaquer le message, on attaque le messager.

What can one do but go on? She miscarries again. When she recovers, she looks to cast blame: might this be the doing of the spirit in the cellar? Could it be that spiteful? She descends to the cellar and sits on an empty urn, sniffing the air, taking her soundings. To her surprise she feels the spirit commiserate with her. She comes away mollified.

After spending decades studying how people deal with setbacks, psychologist Martin Seligman found that three P's can stunt recovery: (1) personalization - the belief that we are at fault; (2) pervasiveness - the belief that an event will affect all areas of our life; and (3) permanence - the belief that the aftershocks of the event will last forever.

He is so committed to his guilt. He needs Michael's death to be his fault. It's what keeps his brother alive for him—that connection. As though, as long as he still has a confession to make, Michael will be forced one day to return in order to hear it. Without that prospect, there is only an ending.

It would have happened eventually, the revelation of her partialness, that she might need something, that her need could be a burden, but it came so suddenly and so starkly. I forgave her everything I had ever blamed her for and tried to love her more without saying anything.

It is always tempting to believe that a bad system is the fault of one bad man.

I am a victum of an error of judgement

EÄŸer kobay, ameliyata kar?? durmuÅŸ ise suç kobay?n deÄŸildir.

Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.

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

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.

I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

Los países africanos se mueren de hambre, en efecto, pero no por obra del Banco Mundial, sino de bárbaros dictadorzuelos que comparten las tesis tercermundistas del señor [Pierre] Galand, precisamente porque ellas suministran una coartada, desviando la atención popular de su propia deshonestidad, rapacidad e incompetencia y echándoles la culpa a otros de los males provocados por ellos.

Peccant, qvia nihil peccant.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

We ought indeed to shrink from and feel shame at what is base; but the nature which is over-cautious to avoid blame may be gentle and kindly, but cannot be great.

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