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Quotes About Accusations

We are the ones out there competing, and yet we read articles and listen to people making accusations about Jamaica, and there's nobody there to take a microphone, be a big person and say, 'What you're saying is wrong, and it's a lie.'
~ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Working in the Middle East, daily I face the questions, disbelief, and accusations about how Americans could violate the human rights which they once championed.
~ Malcolm Nance
I inked up Lombard and all his Merry Men, major case prints whether they said they had touched her or not. They're scrubbing their hands and bitching now.
~ Thomas Harris
The time is long overdue to count the costs of runaway rhetoric and heedless accusations - especially since most of the costs, including the high social cost of a breakdown of law and order, are paid by vulnerable people for whose benefit such rhetoric and such accusations are ostensibly being made.
~ Thomas Sowell
Living in the box means being convinced that other people and our circumstances are responsible for our feelings and our helplessness to overcome them. What we can't see when we're in the box is that the way the world appears to us is our projection, and that we are making this projection to justify ourselves in self-betrayal. We cannot see that it's not others' actions but our accusations that result in our feeling offended.
~ C. Terry Warner
Outrageous accusations should be met with outraged denials if the person accused was innocent.
~ C.J. Box
Guilt feelings so often arise from accusations rather than from crimes.
~ Iris Murdoch
When you have the president arguing that there was mass voter fraud in the absence of any evidence whatsoever - I mean, literally zero - what's to stop anyone from saying so-and-so's a so-and-so?
~ John Fetterman
If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
~ I. F. Stone
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
~ Thomas Fuller
Super Tuesday is the day on which most states hold their primaries. Its darker partner is Dirty Tricks Thursday: the Thursday before an election when candidates release scandalous stories to garner bad publicity for their opponent: the timing means the accused will have little time to refute the allegations.
~ Susie Dent
We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and houses which they should be freeing up for their children. Twentysomethings who can't afford to leave home and can't get jobs are attacked as aimless and immature.
~ Jane Ridley
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
~ Al Capone
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Hungarian citizens filed 30,000 denunciations
~ Susan Faludi
To be female and on the throne during the collapse of a Medieval Kingdom generally elicited accusations of lust, corruption, and general visciousness., The queen's sex life becomes a convenient explanation for the end of an era.
~ Susan Wise Bauer
Behind me, I can hear the accusations against Peeta building. The words traitor, liar, and enemy bounce off the walls.
~ Suzanne Collins
My son has been called many names, accused of many horrible crimes. As a father, I've borne all the humiliation that my son has undergone.
~ Aditya Pancholi
Some have accused me of a strange design Against the creed and morals of this land, And trace it in this poem every line: I don't pretend that I quite understand My meaning when I would be very fine; But the fact is that I have nothing planned...
~ George Gordon Byron
It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.
~ George R.R. Martin
If accusations fit your prejudices, truth is easily pushed aside.
~ Gerald Lund
The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.
~ Sergei Lavrov
The voice I've chosen to turn to is that of NPR. With a reputation for some of the finest journalism in the country, the nonprofit organization is renowned for its unbiased stance - to the point that it's been accused of being both conservative and liberal.
~ Lynda Resnick
Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.
~ Colman McCarthy