Quotes About Fault

I was suffering, seemingly, from some extraordinary fault in my relation to reality, something so uniquely wrong that it compelled me to perceive, at rare intervals, large blocks of otherwise perfectly normal personal experience displaced from their proper positions in Time.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Abuse of women by men is so rampant that, unless people can somehow make it women's own fault, they are forced to take on a number of uncomfortable questions about men and about much of male thinking.

You cannot make that promise, I wanted to shout. You know nothing. But whose fault was that? I had kept the face of the world veiled from him. I had painted his history in bright, bold colors, and he had fallen in love with my art. And now it was too late to go back and change it. If I was so old, I should be wise. I should know better than to howl when the bird was already flown.

know who's at fault and I'm not blaming you. But it's hard to do our work with weak leadership, sometimes no leadership, and fading support from the legislature. The Governor couldn't care less what we do.

then to shift the blame for it onto the shoulders of others.

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

You can't stop me from falling apart, because my self-destruction is all your fault.

To make a mistake it gives you the opportunity to be responsible and own up to your mistake by admitting that you are at fault, not to beat yourself to the ground.

Agamemnon's face had broken into dark red blotches of shock. It seemed like the greatest arrogance or stupidity not to have guessed he might be at fault, but he had not.

One has to forgive. Not everybody was at fault. Think of Yaya and her family, who saved us. They taught me tolerance. I think one person's courage can defeat the complacency of a thousand others.

people were reportedly terrified by the vision of the priest that emphasized it was all their own fault.

Ah, why should all mankind For one mans fault thus guiltless be condemn'd, If guiltless? But

It wasn't my fault. I'm innocent. Why won't these dogs believe me?

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

Respect the old, when you are young. Help the weak, when you are strong. Confess the fault when you are wrong....Because one day in life, you will be old, Weak, and Wrong...

But already there is the same fault, that paradox of stringing together fine-sounding words and only afterwards troubling about what they mean.

And of course, there is always the F for failure. F for failing falling festering failure. F for fault. F for forgotten.

The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.