Quotes About Blame

Your first step in taking responsibility is to quit blaming others and quit blaming the world. You must accept that opportunity is everywhere. Opportunity is all the time. It does not disappear in the difficult times, in fact it's even greater.

Those who don't learn that lesson spend their lives blaming everyone else and waiting for a big break—or decide to play it safe and never risk, or win, big.

I wish I was back in Toronto, I said sulkily. The mince pie was to blame for THAT wish. I wish you were, I'm sure, said Felicity, riddling the fire noisily. Any one who lives with you, Felicity King, will always be wishing he was somewhere else, said Dan. I wasn't talking to you, Dan King, retorted Felicity, 'Speak when you're spoken to, come when you're called.

one sin demands another to cover it.

Indeed, looking back on her twenty-four years of marriage to Rudyard—something, admittedly, that she seldom did—Aurora could not remember a single thing that had been his fault, unless it was Emma, and even that was questionable.

She risks her own life, Louis thought, then blames me for not getting angry. An attention-getting device? How long has she been doing it? Anyone else would die young, with a habit like that!

El Poder Judicial siempre busca encontrar alguien que pague el delito cometido, pero no le interesa detener al que en verdad lo cometió.

You deserve it, she hissed. You deserve it, do you hear me?

trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.

That body did not bleed while I carried it, Nesbit. You touch it but a moment, and it bleeds. No, I didn't kill her. ... The dead always know who to blame. They are very good that way.

I made myself say the name, at least in my own head. My therapist said I felt guilty about his death. Damn straight I did.

This is the truth: You lose some things because you didn't see the darkness rushing toward you. Some things disappear because it all snuck up on you so quickly and quietly, and you weren't paying attention. Okay. But once in a while a loss is preventable. You can stop it. And if you don't, you are to blame. The trick is knowing which is which.

In the past we assumed it was out of a woman's control" whether or not she had a child. "Now we think it's her choice, so we can blame her.

It's a funny things about human nature. Nobody ever wonders why they've got a healthy brother or a perfect kiddie. Anything goes wrong, though, we soon start why, oh why...

Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

Eve ate the apple because Adam was afraid

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.

My parents will be sad for a while, and they may even blame themselves, the way they do now. Eventually they'll come to peace with my decision. I hope they'll realize I'm finally at peace.

The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.

Funny story. A bunch of people -- the cult -- blame the appearance of abilities on the invention of the internet.

People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn't blame science. People should blame people.

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.