Quotes About Fault

Cole was meticulous to a fault; office scuttlebut had it that he never went out in public without first having his shoelaces ironed.

Your admission to Complainers that you are at fault is not only likely to be taken as a sign of submission, but, more importantly, you are just confirming their belief that the power to solve the problems that they are pointing out is, in truth, yours. You validate for them the fact that indeed it's all your fault and they are blameless.

Rockefeller was a forgiving lender and, by all accounts, lenient to a fault.

You make me feel uncomfortable. I'm sorry. Not your fault, she said. It's just the way you are. And what way is that? You're like something feral!

He found people respond to crises in two ways. Some get to work fixing the problem. Others, proving the problem wasn't their fault. Reacher liked the first kind. Rutherford seemed like the first kind. It was nice to see someone not dumping on him for a change.

Then the retributive machinery clanks into action and a flawless career spent garnering nothing but praise is trashed at the stroke of a pen, because it all has to be somebody's fault. Shit happens, but never in an official inquiry commission's final report.

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it:—it was the black kitten's fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it COULDN'T have had any hand in the mischief.

It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

It is natural for a person to make a mistake (commit a fault). What is the way to become free from that? Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] can show it, (which is) 'Pratikraman'.

To misuse wealth is a great fault.

An atheist is a person who has nobody to blame when he screws up.

He had emerged from that crimson twilight into the common electric glare with a self-consciousness intensified to the pitch of agony. He was utterly miserable, and perhaps (her shining eyes accused him), perhaps it was his own fault.

Light illuminates the path of humanity: it is our own fault if we go over the brink.

Bertie stared at his mother. She spoils things, he thought. All she ever does is spoil things. He had not started this conversation, and it was not his fault that they were now talking about Grey Owl. He sounded rather a nice man to Bertie. Any why should he not dress up in feathers and live in the forests if that was what he wanted to do? It was typical of his mother to try to spoil Grey Owl's fun.

Want of courage is the last thing to be pardoned by young men, who usually look upon bravery as the chief of all human virtues, and the excuse for every possible fault.

This lowered him very much in the opinion of all our young fellows. Want of courage is the last thing to be pardoned by young men, who usually look upon bravery as the chief of all human virtues, and the excuse for every possible fault. But, by degrees, everything became forgotten, and Silvio regained his former influence

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

This is as good a place as any to insist that all the characters in Evangellyfish are fictional, and I made them all up out of my own head. Any resemblance to any real people, living or dead, is their own darn fault. If they quit acting like that, the resemblance would cease immediately and we wouldn't have to worry about it.

It's not women's fault that diets don't work. It's not perversity of lack of willpower. God did this — in Her great wisdom.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter sting to thee is a little fault!

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.