Blame Quotes

• And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

  

  Plato
  • Use
  • Blame
  • Philosophers

• Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Rock
  • Storm
  • Blame

• When I look in the mirror, I look at the enemy. There is no one to blame for this but myself. I should have bought myself a mirror a long time ago.

  

  Darryl Strawberry
  • Long
  • Enemy
  • Mirrors

• When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Wind
  • Blame

• Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Environment
  • Choices
  • Results

• When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Problem
  • Government
  • Blame

• Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Men
  • True
  • Monster

• Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don't blame them. I've read books myself that I've had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache.

  

  Susanna Kearsley
  • Blame
  • Readers
  • Dialect

• What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Blame
  • Praise

• On the question of taking credit for what goes right and blame for what goes wrong - having led the Conservative party for four years, I have never heard of this notion before.

  

  William Hague
  • Party
  • Credit
  • Conservative

• Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say, 'He couldn't carry it.' They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana.

  

  Charles Durning
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Dog

• I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Kids
  • Listening
  • Leap

• I believe their race and religious background shaped the way they were treated by the media…The willingness to blame them even though they were clearly victims was distressing.

  

  Azadeh Moaveni
  • Media
  • Blame
  • Background

• God created the world and then created the devil, to blame for his mistakes.

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • World
  • Mistake
  • Devil

• When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Mistake
  • Blame
  • Mantra

• I don't think all the blame lies with Wall Street. I think a lot of the blame lies with the [George W.] Bush administration. They went back to trickle-down economics. They took their eye off the mortgage market, they took their eye off the finance markets, and we ended up in a big mess.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Blame
  • Wall Street
  • George W. Bush administration

• If someone was born the way she was born, are you going to blame him, or are you going to blame God? Whose fault is that? Nobody's.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • God
  • Born
  • Him

• I’m gonna swallow my pride, say I’m sorry. Stop pointing fingers, the blame is on me. I want a new life, and I want it with you. If you feel the same, don’t ever let it go.

  

  Boyz II Men
  • Life
  • Pride
  • Blame

• The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Secret
  • Blame
  • Shame

• Don't blame people for who they are, blame yourself for thinking they were different.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Blame

• An autocrat’s a ruler that does what th’ people wants an’ takes th’ blame f’r it.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • People
  • Blame
  • Ruler

• I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Trying
  • Blame
  • Direct

• Let's worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Problem
  • Worry
  • Blame

• Me, I don’t want any children, I don’t want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men.

  

  George Michael
  • Children
  • Responsibility
  • My Life

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