Fault Quotes

• I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Condition
  • Fault
  • Good Sense

• It's not Cam's fault," Bex told her. "We rigged her bed so that if she gets up, I get an electric shock." "Liz designed it," Macey said, and Bex shrugged "We told you we were taking precautions." Of course. Because at Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy".

  

  Ally Carter
  • Therapy
  • Precautions
  • Electric Shock

• The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Life
  • Political
  • Past

• It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fault
  • Committed
  • Indulgent

• The effort that we put forth, it's not his fault. He put the guys in that he trusted, that he thought would get the job done.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Done
  • Job
  • Effort

• Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Character
  • Fault
  • Voltaire

• I loved you, you know... It's not my fault the world is what it is.

  

  Ed Brubaker
  • World
  • Fault
  • I Loved

• If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Friends
  • Recognize

• One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Human
  • Forgive
  • Enjoying

• There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • People
  • Done
  • Fault

• One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Fault
  • Kitten
  • Entirely

• I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

  

  Benjamin Britten
  • Fault
  • Composer
  • Listener

• I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

  

  Bernie Taupin
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Privacy

• There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Fault
  • Indulgence
  • Malcontent

• You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.

  

  Elisabeth of Wied
  • Fault
  • Learnt
  • Punctual

• “They gave no alms; in their view charity simply demoralized people. If you worked as hard as they did then you would earn as much too: it was open to everyone to do so, and if you didn’t know how to get on in life that was your own fault.”

  

  Wladyslaw Szpilman
  • Charity
  • Fault
  • Alms

• She had a lot of empathy. Maybe that’s why she liked all those bad boys. They were outcasts. It was like she was picking up strays and taking them in. It’s like she could see past their rough exteriors and see the parts of them that hurt. Maybe she thought she could take away the hurt. She was wrong, of course. But I found it hard to fault her for her good heart.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Hurt
  • Empathy
  • Good Heart

• You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers and this is going to be shocking for the liberal professors out there that are indoctrinating our kids but the founding fathers believed in the Judeo-Christian god that believed we have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! You can pursuit it. If you don't get it, it's your fault! You messed up. Go back to work. Work harder.

  

  Brad Stine
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Liberty

• Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.

  

  Hippolyte Taine
  • Virtue
  • Circumstances
  • Vice

• If he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Power
  • Alive
  • Fault

• Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

  

  Rebecca Wells
  • People
  • Earth
  • Sooner

• The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is purely arbitrary fiction that puts nothingness as existing and proposes nothing more than simple noncontradiciton?

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Fiction
  • Hypothesis
  • Proposes

• You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Color
  • Fault
  • Sliver

• Of course, it wasn't my fault. I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, and I ask myself, 'What was his fault?'

  

  Abu Abbas
  • Man
  • Fault
  • Shoot

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