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Quotes About Fault

You must speak the vision of your project in a way that convinces people to pay for it. If they won't pay for it, that is the artist's fault. It is my fault. It is your fault. It is not the executive's fault or the world's.
~ Jill Soloway
We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'
~ Mona Simpson
What you find when you live in the United States, you live in the West, is that when somebody fails, it's never their fault. They always like to blame somebody other than themselves for a failure.
~ Stephen A. Schwarzman
A bad audition is usually the director's fault, not the actor's. It's up to the director to get the atmosphere right to get the best out of your auditionees.
~ Marianne Elliott
When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you're given lectures about how it's really all your fault and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind.
~ Michelle Alexander
I haven't got the credit I deserved sometimes, and some of it's my fault.
~ Paulie Malignaggi
I'm a good coach. I do the right things for my players, and I try to support them; I try to help them almost to a fault.
~ Ben Howland
If I play well, I'll deserve to play. If I don't perform, it will be my fault.
~ Demba Ba
If you're not playing, you're probably trying to find excuses when it's probably your fault.
~ Matt Doherty
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point.
~ John Negroponte
Just because a woman is beautiful doesn't mean she can't be a good wife. If her beauty affects her personality, then it's her mentality that's at fault... not the tilt of her nose.
~ Fred MacMurray
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.
~ Sidney Lanier
The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.
~ James Laughlin
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.
~ Delia Smith
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
~ Robert Orben
An error which is not perpetuated cannot be viewed as any error at all.
~ Robert Sheckley
Stop blaming yourself. Someone deceived you and hurt you. You don't need to take on the burden of that. The man who committed the offense is at fault, not the person he wronged
~ Robin Hobb
A true priest of Sa had little use for guilt. It but obscured; if something made a man feel bad then he must determine what about it troubled him, and eliminate that. Simply to suffer the discomforts of guilt did not indicate a man had improved himself, only that he suspected he harbored a fault.
~ Robin Hobb
It is wrong to believe that such men suffer in the conscience for what they do Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is only regret at being caught that troubles them. And they never admit it was any fault of their own Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it was always chance, bad luck.… The criminal does not regret his crime, he only regrets failure.
~ Louis L'Amour
She felt comforted at once by the sympathy and confidence given her; the knowledge that her mother had a fault like hers, and tried to mend it.
~ Louisa May Alcott
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.
~ Emilia Lanier
Perhaps it's always true that when you wreck your own life you blame everyone else for your misfortune.
~ Alice Hoffman