Quotes About Blame

Every club has its scapegoats, but some are easier targets than others.

I have long since passed that period when I felt personal discomfort at the sight of an ill-dressed or illiterate Negro. Social awareness has taught me where to lay the blame.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movement is a sentiment in America that government is broken - both parties are to blame - and if we don't do something soon, this exceptional country will be lost, and it will become just like everybody else.

Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.

It is a team game, we all play for each other; obviously we win and lose as a team, but I like to take the blame when we lose.

I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.

In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.

To say that Siena and Florence have always been competitive is an understatement. In medieval times, a statue of Venus stood on Il Campo. After the plague hit Siena, the monks blamed the pagan statue. The people cut it to pieces and buried it along the walls of Florence.

People that complain often are usually trying to get attention. The stems from the fact they're displeased with their accomplishments and think the lack of same is the fault of others.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.

A mother should sacrifice herself. The world is a happy place when it can sacrifice mothers on the altar of unconditional love. . . . I can take the blame. All the blame! I'm designed for it. I'm like the village witch who gets burned when the child gets sick or the crops fail . . . If you can't blame the weather, blame the mother. Welcome to womanhood.

People can forget when times are easy that bad things sometimes just happen, or they start to believe that bad things only happen to bad people, people who somehow brought it upon themselves.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my fault, but I couldn't "BELIEVE" it! Then I was talking to my friend Kieran and he explained to me in a way that I could PERCEIVE that I was not at fault. No one else could ever do that before, though many tried. Many, many people had tried to tell me it wasn't my fault, but I was convinced it was my fault because I was trying to cheer up my dad.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Wall Street has blanketed America in a miasma of cynicism, and much of it is directed against Wall Street. The Street has only itself to blame.

Yet the notion that you're paid what you're "worth" is by now so deeply ingrained in the public consciousness that many who earn very little assume it's their own fault.

scapegoaters, but rather on the side of the scapegoated victim.

It's easy enough to notice how often dysfunctional families and societies finally collapse into an orgy of mutual blaming. That's satanic work.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it.

A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.