Quotes About Blame

The weak-minded choose to hate," she said. "It's the least painful thing to do, isn't it?

One man's mistake can capsize a whole ship of people." "True.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.

Perché i tempi sono degenerati fino a questo punto? Perché la gioventù, l'ambizione e la semplicità sono decadute e il mondo è diventato così biasimevole?

Like a child thinking that his parents are fighting because of him, the monotheist is convinced that the Persians are fighting the Babylonians because of him.

Rather, when famine, plague or war break out of our control, we feel that somebody must have screwed up, we set up a commission of inquiry, and promise ourselves that next time we'll do better.

Youngsters are increasingly excused from obeying their elders, whereas parents are blamed for anything that goes wrong in the life of their child.

For Andy, who encouraged me to write in the first place. See, this is all your fault . . .

shared pain is central to what it means to be a human being," but we are a society that values the anesthetic over pain. We hide our prisons, our sick, our mad, and our poor; we expend colossal resources to live in padded, temperature-controlled environments that make few demands on our bodies or our minds. We come up with elaborate means of not knowing about the suffering of others and of blaming them when we do.

There are ways of disagreeing with the policies of the Israeli government without sounding antisemitic. And blaming all Jews for something wrong that Israel has done—that's antisemitic.

Once again, Dr. Blake blamed us for the incident. "There's conflict in the house," she said to me, through my social worker. "Of course there's conflict!" I complained. "As long as we try to handle her there's going to be conflict. You told us to be firm!

My fault, again. Dr. Blake said I also handled the beads incident wrong when I reported that a couple of weeks later.

marriage self. Krista hesitated before reaching for the door. Blaming marriage might backfire. Amanda was the happiest Krista had ever seen her. But, the harsh reality couldn't be avoided. The Amanda who invited Krista to join her on the new frontier where—to paraphrase Amanda, "...all you need is drive, brains, and

This war did not spring up here in our land; this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land from us without price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things. The Great Father and his children are to blame for this trouble.

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.

Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.

What does responsibility mean? Responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself. Having accepted this circumstance, this event, this problem, responsibility then means the ability to have a creative response to the situation as it is now. All problems contain the seeds of opportunity, and this awareness allows you to take the moment and transform it to a better situation or thing.

The second thing is to take responsibility for your situation and for all the events you see as problems. This means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself. Responsibility means the ability to have a creative response to the situation as it is now. All problems contain the seeds of opportunity, and this awareness allows you to take the moment and transform it into a better situation.

Spirit doesn't blame for work not done. Life doesn't depend on whether something gets done or not. Work isn't the source of happiness. Your attitude toward your work, not the task itself, comes first.

Gautama was astonished at how many ways his mind could plague him. It blamed him for everything—for his blistered feet, for getting lost in the forest, for making a bed from tree boughs that turned out to be full of lice.

Responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself.