Quotes About Fault

Better mend a fault than find a fault

They were not fighting over what to do, but over whom to blame.

There's only one thing you can count on, Mr. President," he said. "On any given moment in any given day, somebody somewhere is screwing up.

There's always someone at fault, which is not the same as blame.

Though geologists can't yet predict earthquakes, they can often predict volcanic eruptions, and can prepare the people who live along the Rim of Fire and other fault systems to take lifesaving precautions.

The first piece of wisdom they offer is that misfortune may be no one's fault.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life.

or (this one is particularly evil) "to ensure that it is always my unloved child's fault." These are all examples of what Sigmund Freud's compatriot, the lesser-known Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler, called "life-lies."149

Y'know what happened in the Soviet Union, was that it actually became illegal to suffer. And I'm really serious about that, because, y'know, if the system is working, then everything's ok with you... and if everything is not okay with you.. well, is that your fault, or the systems fault? Well it's not the goddamn systems fault. Then it's your fault. Then you don't get to suffer. And that's what happened in the Soviet Union.

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

Your greatest fault," Eisenhower tells Patton, "is your audacity.

I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I think I'm quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I'm very bad with money, but I don't see that too much of a flaw.

I thought the Rousey match was the best major league debut in the history of wrestling. They did the right thing at the right time at the right pace and took people on a roller coaster ride. That, to me, was a pro wrestling match. I couldn't find fault with it, except I wish that Ronda had come out with her game face on when she did her entrance.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

I shook my head. "And I thought you were a genius when I saw your paintings." "Really?" She seemed caught off guard by the compliment. "Really." She cleared her throat. "And now that you see how deceptive I can be?" "I think you're a diabolical genius." Natalie liked that. "You can't fault me. That Lars guy is like human Ambien. He opens his mouth, I'm out." "I'm

Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.

In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.

In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.

Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimacy. All art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, each work is the implementation of this original fault, from which comes a risky plenitude and new light.

Nice to be able to say, "Hey, don't look at me, it's not my fault." Well, it is. It is my fault, and the fault of everyone of my generation.

the investor's chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself. ("The fault, dear investor, is not in our stars—and not in our stocks—but in ourselves….")

Sigtryggr had been given an honorable place at the table, as had my daughter. "It was her fault," Sigtryggr said, nodding toward Stiorra. I translated for Æthelflaed. "Why her fault?" she asked. "He saw her and was distracted," I explained.