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Quotes About Fault

Yes," said the cop. "It wasn't anyone's fault." "People like to say that," A.J. replies. "But it was someone's fault. It was hers. What a stupid thing for her to do. What a stupid melodramatic thing for her to do. What a goddamn Danielle Steel move, Nic! If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The failure was in the conception.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
If a man is to have a fault, it should be a passionate one, like insatiable curiosity. It would be a pity to be damned for something paltry.
~ Gary Jennings
As mentioned earlier, when Targets call for help, there is a good chance that much time has passed. Targets often wait too long to seek help, thinking the problems are their fault.
~ Gary Namie
Queen will arrange to view the room as it is decorated and the table laid. If a lampshade is crooked or a lightbulb missing, she will notice straight away and draw attention to the fault. In this way, she lets her staff know she is not taking them or their efforts for granted.
~ Brian Hoey
There is no more fatal fault in the reading of history, nor any illusion to which the human mind is more prone. To read the remote past in the light of the recent past; to think the process of the one towards the other inevitable; to regard the whole matter as a slow inexorable process, independent of the human will, still suits the materialist pantheism of our time.
~ Hilaire Belloc
Blame Lewis.
~ Iain Banks
If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.
~ Jocko Willink
When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.
~ Joe Strummer
I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
~ T. Boone Pickens
They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.
~ George Clooney
Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
~ Bram Stoker
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.
~ Charles Churchill
People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.
~ James Frey
If you're involved in an accident and you're at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?
~ Bill Vaughan
divert the discussion from its main intent and fasten upon some statement of mine which lacks a hair's-breadth of the truth and, under this hair, hide the fault of another which is as big as a ship's cable.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
You are a willing conspirator in his dreams. Understandably. He offered you sanctuary when you solely needed it. He wants to train you for a purpose, this is clear. And if you go along with that, without knowing all the facts, that is the fault of your silence rather than Taropat's secrecy, surely.
~ Storm Constantine
Perhaps there was just too much information for him to interpret, and the important symbols were lost in a confusing maelstorm of ancient memories. Or perhaps the fault lay within himself.
~ Storm Constantine
Only you could take one of my worst character faults and turn it into a virtue.
~ Susan Andersen
Man is nature's sole mistake.
~ William Gilbert
I love it when you stare at me but my arrogance is entirely your fault.
~ Brent M. Jones
They say nothing is my fault, and I wish they wouldn't say that. How can a man be forgiven if nothing is his fault?
~ Miriam Toews
I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?
~ Amy Grant
'Empire' was already given its green light. I was like, 'Alright, this makes perfect sense. They wouldn't be going this hard on me if I didn't have it.' So it was last minute when I learned, you know, it's a business decision. That was my fault.
~ Rotimi