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Quotes About Fault

But Mr. Cramer,." Wolfe protested, "is it my fault if destiny likes this address?
~ Rex Stout
Miss Beryl wondered if Sully would be amused. That probably depended on whether he knew what Lydia Pinkham's was. One of the problems of being eighth was that you built up a pretty impressive store of allusions. Other people didn't follow them, and they made it clear that this was your fault.
~ Richard Russo
I gave her a smile that I hoped conveyed something like: Hey, you know I'm on your side. Gods are such jerks! But what can you do? Probably my expression actually conveyed: It's not my fault! Please do not kill me!
~ Rick Riordan
Kronos became the Titan of time. He couldn't pop around the time stream like Doctor Who or anything, but he could occasionally make time slow down or speed up. Whenever you're in an incredibly boring lecture that seems to take forever, blame Kronos. Or when your weekend is way too short, that's Kronos's fault, too.
~ Rick Riordan
He likes women, children, dogs, really what can you fault?' Pamela wrote. 'It's just a shame he's a dictator with no respect for the law or common humanity.
~ Kate Atkinson
Even so, an AF would feel himself growing lethargic after a few hours away from the Sun, and start to worry there was something wrong with him – that he had some fault unique to him and that if it became known, he'd never find a home.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
So why was his stomach tightening and twisting with every step up those stairs? Because hope was a dangerous thing. It said the failure would be his own fault alone.
~ Kelley Armstrong
If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault.
~ Ken Follett
done wrong." "No
~ Ken Follett
If I should die and my soul gets lost, it's nobody's fault but mine." Everybody was responsible.
~ Ken Follett
I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.
~ Richard E. Grant
His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.
~ William Shakespeare
peccadillo. So far as my observation goes, men
~ William Patten
For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
~ William Penn
You see,the trouble with the signs in the sky, my dear morsel, is that once having seen them, one has no excuse. Have you noticed how few miracles one hears about lately? Not our fault, Karras. Don't blame us. We try!
~ William Peter Blatty
Yes, you'll join our little family," Regan continued. "You see, the trouble with signs in the sky is that, once having seen them, one has no excuse. Have you noticed how few miracles one hears about lately? Not our fault, dear Karras. We try!
~ William Peter Blatty
If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved.
~ William Shakespeare
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?
~ William Shakespeare
And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
~ William Shakespeare
Find out the cause of this effect,Or rather say, the cause of this defect,For this effect defective comes by cause.
~ William Shakespeare
What it was was an irresponsible act by an asshole with a gun. And it wasn't the fault of the gun; someone has to be behind the trigger.
~ William W. Johnstone
Modern love is complicated, ??, a term that is even more complicated in Chinese, used as it is for anything too difficult to explain, tackle or resolve, much like the state of our city in these times. Umbrellas foster revolutions and filibustering passes for a political process. To be ?? is almost to deny resolution. Perhaps we are afraid of the possible outcome, and to deny ... what is it we deny? Accountability? Fault? Responsibility?
~ Xu Xi
In truth, blame is just another one of the negative programs that we have allowed our mind to buy because we never stopped to question it. Why must something always be someone's "fault"? Why must the whole concept of "wrong" be introduced to the situation in the first place? Why must one of us be wrong, bad, or at fault? What seemed like a good idea at the time may not have turned out well. That's all. Unfortunate events may have just happened
~ David R. Hawkins
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
~ Ernest Bevin