Blame Quotes
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You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.
Scott Westerfeld
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It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.
Epictetus
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Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.
John Ruskin
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I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. ... When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. ... People have told me songs I've written have changed their life. That's remarkable. That keeps your faith.
John Graham Mellor The 101ers
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You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
Albert Einstein
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You can't blame a book for its story.
Catherynne M. Valente
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It's easy to play the blame game, find a scapegoat, but no one person could be responsible for the challenges we face and the lives lost.
Craig Fugate
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Bless more; blame less.
Marianne Williamson
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You have these Stepford wives who are negating other women. But that's their job. [Donald] Trump is the one who is to blame, no matter how much I enjoy watching his surrogates fail massively.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn
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The less you blame others the more you will succeed.
Anabel Jensen
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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
Andrew Young
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Don't waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money
Nicholas von Hoffman
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.
William Cowper
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When blame has been assigned, the story is over.
Charles Baxter
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Oh! blame not the bard.
Thomas More
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Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.
Edmund Gosse
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Taking responsibility means you don’t blame anyone else for your difficulties. It also means that you don’t blame yourself.
Edmund Bourne
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If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.
Chapman Cohen
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Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.
Seth Godin
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K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.
Ed Viesturs