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Quotes About Fault

Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
~ Walter Kirn
my principal fault was an unconquerable pitch of pride, which exposed me to frequent mortification.
~ Walter Scott
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
For a long time those who did not require relief entertained the illusion that those being aided were in need through some fault of their own. It is now pretty clear in the national mind that the unemployed are a cross-section of the workers, the finest people in the land"
~ Charles Kurzman
Both power and chemical executives (who were also catching flak from environmentalists) sent their own representatives to Merridale in an effort to discover the true cause and clear themselves, or, if the fault were theirs, find some way to reverse the phenomenon and/or cover up their involvement in it.
~ Chet Williamson
But the company is going to be generous. In spite of the fact that the accident was the fault of the men, we're goin' to give each of the miners' families a hundred dollars death compensation and six months' free rent at the company's houses." Andy didn't speak.
~ Harold Robbins
Humility—the first gift—can help us surrender to an event outside our control, one we couldn't prevent and was not our fault
~ Laurie Nadel
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
~ leacock stephen ii
Everybody does something wrong at one time or another.
~ Lemony Snicket
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
~ James Thurber
If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.
~ Jane Austen
san?r?m her yarad?l??ta belli bir kötülüÄŸe doÄŸru eÄŸilim vard?r... doÄŸal bir kusur, en iyi eÄŸitim bile üstesinden gelemez. sizin kusurunuz herkesten nefret etme eÄŸilimi. sizinki de, dedi Darcy gülümseyerek, isteyerek herkesi yanl?? anlama.
~ Jane Austen
That is a failing indeed! cried Elizabeth. Implacable resentment is a shade in a character. But you have chosen your fault well. I really cannot laugh at it. You are safe from me. There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome. And your defect is to hate everybody. And yours, he replied with a smile, is willfully to misunderstand them. Do
~ Jane Austen
Implacable resentment is a shade in a character. But you have chosen your fault well. I really cannot laugh at it. You are safe from me. There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome. And your defect is to hate everybody. And yours, he replied with a smile, is willfully to misunderstand them.
~ Jane Austen
To be sure—our discordancies must always arise from my being in the wrong.
~ Jane Austen
I concluded that America was a fine place for the healthy and successful, but for the strugglers and the infirm, for the people who, through no fault of their own
~ Jane Hawking
Opening my door to Dillon Ruddick, my bulding super. I handed him a cup of coffee. Sorry about the blood. What was it this time? No one reported gunfire. I hit a guy in the face with a hair dryer. Whoa. Dillon said. It wasn't my fault, I told him. Maybe we should lay down some linoleum here. It would make things easier for clean up.
~ Janet Evanovich
He's hot, Lula said, but he's a pig. All men are pigs. Do you really believe that? No but it's a point of view to keep in mind . You don't want to go around thinkin' shit is your fault. Next thing you know, they got you makin' pot roast ad you're cutting up your mastercard.
~ Janet Evanovich
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
~ Dante Alighieri
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
~ Mark Twain
I'm at Stoke, I'm enjoying it, it's not my fault and I shouldn't be discriminated against just because who I play for.
~ Jack Butland
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
~ Titus Livius