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Quotes About Blame

Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being grateful. If you are complaining, you are not being grateful.
~ Rhonda Byrne
I think the saddest thing is how people take on guilt and blame that isn't theirs or doesn't belong to them, and how hard it is to forgive yourself.
~ Wunmi Mosaku
Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.
~ Greta Thunburg
If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can't imagine how you could have changed it, that's very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it's more difficult not to be at fault because it's a subtler thing.
~ Darin Strauss
When Brazil lose, someone has to be guilty, and it's always Rivaldo. It's different with Romario. He plays in Brazil, and they love him more. I'm treated like a foreign player.
~ Rivaldo
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
~ Kin Hubbard
The one who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. Lou Holtz
~ Gary L. McIntosh
What's that Russian saying about incompetent people trying to pass the blame?" Senderovsky laughed. " 'A bad dancer is bothered by his balls.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Had any one met with a fall, or suffered a practical joke at the hands of one of the other girls, or lost a powderpuff, it was at once the fault of the ghost, of the Opera ghost.
~ Gaston Leroux
Criticism and blame are addictions. They are costly addictions, because they are the number-one destroyer of intimacy in close relationships.
~ Gay Hendricks
you are the cause by which I die
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
A knowing wife if she is worth her salt Can always prove her husband is at fault, And even though the fellow may have heard Some story told him by a little bird She knows enough to prove the bird is crazy And get her maid to witness she's a daisy
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I'm going. A lot is possible. The weather's nice, Captain. Look: such a beautiful, solid, rough sky -you'd almost feel like pounding a block of wood into it and hanging yourself on it. Only because of the hyphen between yes and no? Is no to blame for yes, or yes for no? I'll have to think about that.
~ Georg Buchner
The most frequent expression in the Muslim world is inshallah, if God wills. It removes all guilt: blame it on Allah. If the oasis dries up and blows away, it was Allah's will. If you get caught sleeping with your brother's wife, it was Allah's will. Getting your hand or your cock or your head chopped off in reprisal is Allah's will, too.
~ George Alec Effinger
I am sick of hearing about innocent victims, there are no innocent victims. If you live on this planet you're guilty. Period, f... you, end of report, next case, next f...ing case.
~ George Carlin
That was about as effective as blaming it on God, and as practical, too. You couldn't get a lawyer to sue either of them.
~ George Effinger
Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.
~ George Eliot
Where lies the power, there let the blame lie too. Nay, power is relative; you cannot fright The coming pest with border fortresses, Or catch your carp with subtle argument. All force is twain in one: cause is not cause Unless effect be there; and action's self Must needs contain a passive. So command Exists but with obedience.
~ George Eliot
It is wonderful how much uglier things will look when we only suspect that we are blamed for them
~ George Eliot
1st Gent. Where lies the power, there let the blame lie too. 2d Gent. Nay, power is relative; you cannot fright The coming pest with border fortresses, Or catch your carp with subtle argument. All force is twain in one: cause is not cause Unless effect be there; and action's self Must needs contain a passive. So command Exists but with obedience
~ George Eliot
It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
~ George Eliot
Bad apple frame. Consider the saying "A bad apple spoils the barrel." The implication is that if you remove the bad apple or some small number of bad apples, the others will be fine. The rot is localized and will not spread. Rot here is a metaphor for immorality. In a case where there is immoral behavior, it points blame at one person or a few people—and not to any broader systemic immorality, an immoral policy, or an immoral culture. This
~ George Lakoff
I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.
~ Roger Federer
Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently.
~ Amity Shlaes