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Quotes About Accusing

I was only rarely called upon to say anything in the open battlefield, although at times Emma looked accusingly at me and made me feel that I might have offered more support had I been of a less spineless constitution
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah
The men were making too much noise, laughing, joking, to cover her terrible accusing silence below. She made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust go guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about.
~ Ray Bradbury
Once you see the ego for what it is, it becomes much easier to remain nonreactive toward it. You don't take it personally anymore. There is no complaining, blaming, accusing, or making wrong. Nobody is wrong. It is the ego in someone, that's all. Compassion arises when you recognize that all are suffering from the same sickness of the mind, some more acutely than others.
~ Eckhart Tolle
When we go to court, they are going to have to come up with all the evidence where they are accusing me and my dedicated deputies of racial profiling. It's always easy to throw the race card in there and that's what they're doing in Washington today, that they're concerned about racial profiling.
~ Joe Arpaio
His unfinished project stared back at Nick from the computer screen, the cursor accusing him with every blink.
~ Richard L. Mabry
It's a death sentence," Nicko said. "She's accusing us of everything but stopping up the royal sink.
~ Robert Bloch
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors. Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman.
~ Khaled Hosseini
almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.
~ John Podhoretz
That's what you men are always doing; it's so barbarously naive. You feel one of your loose desires for some woman, and because you desire her strongly you immediately accuse her of luring you on, of deliberately provoking and inviting the desire.
~ Aldous Huxley
You poor, pathetic bastard," the charm ground out the slow accusing words. "You've become Igrot. Do you know that? To defeat the monster you became the monster." The tiny voice became even fainter. "You have only yourself to fear now.
~ Robin Hobb
That's not the one you were thinking of? No. There was accusation in her voice. Mine was different
~ Lorrie Moore
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped , or the wolf asking the sheep , 'Do you hate me?' The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! "Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I'm snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?
~ Malcolm X
If disliking Richard be grounds for accusing a man of conspiracy, I daresay you could implicate half of Christendom in this so-called plot. Richard endears himself easiest to those who've yet to meet him.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
My detractors are only accusing me of blowing up cars. What they have not realised is that my films have the potential to cross language barriers. New avenues have opened for Hindi films, and I'm proud and happy about it.
~ Rohit Shetty
But . . ." Dominic floundered around for a bit before pointing at me accusingly. "You said that there's weird shit, but it normally turns out to have a rational explanation." "It does," said Beverley. "The explanation is a wizard did it.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Accusing: You have been seen. You will be seen.
~ Gillian Flynn
I - listen, racism - being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.
~ Megyn Kelly
Mr. Nobley: "Then I must stay?" Miss Erstwhile: "Unless you want to risk me accusing you of ungentleman-like behavior at dinner, yes, I think you should stay. If I spend too much time alone today, I'm in real danger of doing a convincing impersonation of the madwoman in the attic." Mr. Nobley: He raised an eyebrow. "And how would that be different from-" Miss Esrtwhile: "Sit down Mr. Nobely", she said.
~ Shannon Hale
We could also come to the question of motive, although as any good detective will tell you, you need to find the means first, then the opportunity, all bolstered by evidence, and then you will have the motive without needing to look for it. You don't immediately go about accusing every random person who has motive to kill someone." He chuckled. "If you did that, you'd be arresting a great many innocent people.
~ Mercedes Lackey
We end up gathering with allies—actual, perceived, or potential—as a way of feeling justified in our own accusing views of others.
~ The Arbinger Institute
The argument went on and on, and they became locked in a confused rhetorical exchange that left them exhausted, each accusing the other of being more stubborn than a mule. But in the end they kissed each other good night and both were left with the feeling that the other was an extraordinary human being.
~ Isabel Allende