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Quotes About Fault

The fact that their [the flower children's] uniforms and their jargons precisely represented the distances they had yet to cover before arriving at that maturity which makes love possible—or no longer possible—could not be considered their fault. They had been born into a society in which nothing was harder to achieve, in which perhaps nothing was more scorned and feared than the idea of the soul's maturity.
~ James Baldwin
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
Whether they are accepted or not isn't important. What is important is the act of apologizing, the act of admitting fault, the act of asking for forgiveness.
~ James Frey
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
~ Henry Petroski
The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis.
~ David Kay
So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.
~ Herbert Croly
The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential.
~ Louis O. Kelso
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
~ Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
I was very stale at Fox. Much of it was my own fault. I was lazy and didn't fight for things I wanted to do at other times. Most of my stuff consisted of setup/punchline jokes to the camera - a very old-school approach. I was part of the establishment, I guess.
~ Frank Caliendo
Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly?
~ Philip Caldwell
God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do
~ Jim Bakker
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
~ John Selden
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
~ Terence
It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know who we are.
~ Teresa of Avila
Since we can enjoy heaven on earth, be brave in begging the Lord that nothing will be lacking through our own fault, that with God's help we dig until we find this treasure.
~ Teresa of Avila
One's past is not one's destiny, and it is self-serving to pretend that it is. If henceforth I were miserable, it would be my own fault: and I vowed never to waste my substance on petty domestic conflict.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
It was her fault. All these theorists talk about how she hired a hit man. Some even say she pulled the trigger, but that's bullshit. She poisoned him with herself, that's what she did. That's what I'm talking about.
~ Theresa Weir
He knew he had only himself to blame; but it was more or less entirely her fault.
~ Nick Hornby
We all have some proper noun to blame.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Mohammad, left a lot to be desired.
~ Clive Cussler