Quotes About Blame

white raiders attack their own kind just so it can be blamed on the Cheyenne." Ansley

A man cannot be blamed for ignorance if he has never been taught.

Those sons of bitches up there are to blame!' Another worker shouted and jumped forward. He shook an angry fist at the blank faces that looked down on the death scene from the offices atop the yard administration. 'Sánchez's work crew had been cut back twice! It's unsafe to work with so few men! You all know that! Yes, someone's to blame, and the blame lies with those bastards that treat us like animals and our rotten union that won't protect us!

Anyone can be a cause of his or her own destruction, but no one can claim individual responsibility for having created a great good.

Fixing motives is like fixing blame-the further away from the act you get, the harder it is to single out one thing as having caused it.

That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault. Lulu

sometimes things happen that no one hopes for. Events that cause everything you've worked toward, the life you've carefully constructed piece by piece, to come tumbling down all around you. No one is to blame, but you're left with a wound you can't heal on your own and can't believe you'll ever learn to accept, so you struggle to escape the pain. Only time can heal wounds as deep as that

I need to tease out how far I was to blame. You'll understand that, Dr Freud. Guilt. Does anyone escape it? Is guilt the reason we make up stories?

Non mi piacciono i matrimoni combinati. Ci sono sbagli dei quali non bisognerebbe mai poter incolpare i propri poveri genitori.

I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.

How deeply could she have cared for me if she could dive so swiftly into the next things? How real had it been? Such thoughts plagued me, though I knew, in my deepest heart, that this was me trying to shift the blame, and the blame could not be shifted, it rested firmly on my shoulders.—So this was

Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.

Success has many fathers; failures have none.

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

People, in general, he said, only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.

People ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or, if they follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

This woman only became a criminal because she touched me. I am oozing with crime. She caught it off me as one may catch typhus, or cholera, or the plague!

La colpa non era di Dantès bensì di Dio che, limitando la potenza dell'uomo, gli ha creato desideri infiniti.

People, in general, Athos said, only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.