Blame On Quotes

#1. The story of Genesis could only be a poorly written misconception that put needless blame on women. Estella

Ira Smith

#2. Perhaps we invented the gods so that we could put the blame on them. They gave us permission to eat flesh. They gave us permission to play with unclean things. It's not our fault, it's theirs. We're just their children.

J.M. Coetzee

#3. It is easy to look backward and cast blame on others, but more difficult to gaze ahead and take responsibility for your own decisions and your own future. - GRIFFIN HARKONNEN, final dispatch from Arrakis It

Brian Herbert

#4. To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents

Maya Angelou

#5. And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short.

David Price

#6. Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

Jean-Paul Sartre

#7. Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

Winston Churchill

#8. One thing we've learned is that there's not anything that Nigel Farage won't blame on foreigners.

Nicola Sturgeon

#9. If you wish it, you are free; if you wish it, you'll find fault with no one, you'll cast blame on no one, and everything that comes about will do so in accordance with your own will and that of God.

Epictetus

#10. The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.

Alice Miller

#11. Lay not the blame on me, O sailor, but on the winds. By nature I am as calm and safe as the land itself, but the winds fall upon me with their gusts and gales, and lash me into a fury that is not natural to me.

Aesop

#12. Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.

Tony DiCicco

#13. This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

Thomas Sowell

#15. In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

Nancy Astor

#16. Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it.

Steve Maraboli

#17. Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

Jose Saramago

#18. Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

Swami Vivekananda

#19. The New York Times and Politico report , as Bush continues to flounder on the campaign trail, backers are placing some of the blame on Right To Rise and its inability to sell their candidate.

Chris Hayes

#20. What I do believe happens in a lot of these cases is that we somehow want to place blame on the victim for their behavior or that they brought it upon themself. As law enforcement official, you are held to a higher standard. You are expected to execute your job in that regard.

Sharon Cooper

#21. Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given ...

Homer

#22. Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else?

Hilary Grossman

#23. Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault,

Jack Kerouac

#25. Psychological theories of illness are a powerful means of placing the blame on the ill. Patients who are instructed that they have, unwittingly, caused their disease are also being made to feel that they have deserved it.

Susan Sontag

#26. The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

Nancy Astor

#27. My brothers always like to believe that my father pampered me and I am spoilt. While it is not true, they felt that way. As for my dad, I could not do anything wrong. So, if I did something wrong, I would put the blame on them, and he would shout at them.

Sonakshi Sinha

#28. I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

T. Boone Pickens

#29. (as in any family, the tendency is always to place the blame on others, and to state adamantly that the parents didn't know what they were doing when they made that drastic decision).

Paulo Coelho

#30. Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say - when they have only their own madness to think if their miseries are worse than they ought to be.

Homer

#31. Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and intensity of these events is increasing you can blame on global warming.

James Hansen

#32. He would have recoiled still more had he been aware that her attachment rose unsolicited, and was bestowed where it awakened no reciprocation of sentiment; for the minute he discovered its existence, he laid the blame on Heathcliff's deliberate designing.

Emily Bronte

#33. When prayer seems to be unanswered, beware of trying to place the blame on someone else. That is always a trap of Satan. When you seem to have no answer, there is always a reason - God uses these times to give you deep personal instruction, and it is not for anyone else but you.

Oswald Chambers

#34. You build walls to fortify your heart,
and blame on others for your loneliness.

Toba Beta

#35. I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.

Charles Spurgeon

#36. Many come to seek fortunes who only find trouble and sorrow, and then they throw the blame on chance, and forget the true cause is their own idleness and vice and want of commonsense. Whoever is sober and industrious, honest and economical, gets on.

Jules Verne

#37. The Tang went into decline and people became discontented. There was hunger and unrest, and as is common at such times, the troublemakers looked to place the blame on the foreigners.

Amitav Ghosh

#38. The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.

Hassan Nasrallah

#39. Usually when a woman was in the wrong, she could find so many things to blame on the nearest man that he wound up thinking maybe he really was at fault.

Robert Jordan

#40. North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.

Paul Watson

#41. They don't ask, How do we stop bullies? Instead those assholes say, How can we get these stupid kids to stop painting bull's-eyes on their foreheads? They put the blame on the victims, not the victimizers.

Chuck Wendig

#42. People may not realize the damage that they are doing by placing the blame on the victim ~ but that doesn't lessen the damage that they cause by doing it.

Darlene Ouimet

#43. Your haters may stage fake games that they know you cannot win so that you may fail and put that blame on you and in turn doubt yourself.

Assegid Habtewold

#44. I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

Kathleen Parker

#45. It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

Epictetus

#46. People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

James Frey

#47. [T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.

Orson Scott Card

#48. My parents got divorced. Early and ugly. My mum was nuts so I lived with my dad. We used to play a father/son games. Pin the blame on me, rock, paper, get me another beer, casino night.

Christopher Titus

#49. Some areas near Dallas experienced a 3.5-magnitude earthquake, which some blame on fracking. However, scientists say that it was more likely aftershocks from Chris Christie celebrating at the Cowboys game.

Jimmy Fallon

#50. Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

Byron Katie

#51. Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.

Fran Lebowitz

#52. I was the person, I think, who first said the evening of September 11 that we shouldn't hold this against the Arab community, the Muslim community. We should focus on the individuals and that groups that were involved and not participate in group blame.

Rudy Giuliani

#53. Katie leaned forward conspiratorially. Oh, sweetie, I just said that because Alice is an old bag. You go after Devon. The man is fine. I don't blame you for changing your look for a shot at that. When the pool about you two gets going at Petie's Pub, I'm putting my money on you.

Susan Meier

#54. There are times when we can blame a situation on others, but we own our reactions to them. There comes a point where we are the ones responsible for our choices and excuses don't carry weight anymore.

Penelope Douglas

#55. I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

Leon Spinks

#56. The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault and blaming herself at all was useless. She would eventually try to believe this, as soon as she was behind her locked bedroom door.

Thomm Quackenbush

#57. When things go wrong on a macroeconomic level, it's almost always this way. People find someone to blame, whether it's blacks, whites, Christians, Jews, Muslims-whoever.

Jim Rogers

#58. Having kids means there's always someone around to blame your fart on.

Dana Gould

#59. The Tea Party elites believe government is evil. Everything about government is bad, and they blame all problems, even non-economic problems, problems that were caused by the private sector, on government.

Chuck Schumer

#60. Never play a blame game. Your feet are aching because you put them into a tight shoe ... Nobody has it on; it's you who have it on! Your aims will help you to get out of trouble games, but not your blames!

Israelmore Ayivor

#61. Even if you fall on the runway, I wouldn't blame you. It would mean that we made a mistake in choosing you.

Ai Yazawa

#62. If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.

Camille Paglia

#63. How about I pick out something for your mom, and you pick out something for mine? That way if our moms hate what we got, which they won't say if they do, we can push the blame off on each other.

Keary Taylor

#64. Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

Herta Muller

#65. I think the liberals are going to try to blame - and they already are - this entire mess on the right and on President [George W.] Bush. I think Republicans dropped the ball on actually articulating why we got into this economic mess, but it's not too late.

Andrea Tantaros

#66. Riots are started by the police and blamed on dissidents.

Marty Rubin

#67. Watanabe would later admit that in the beginning of his life in exile, he had pondered the question of whether or not he had committed any crime. In the end, he laid the blame not on himself but on "sinful, absurd, insane war." He saw himself as a victim.

Laura Hillenbrand

#68. I told you the truth at the bridge. I don't have a good excuse. Blame it on a bad mood." Tate dips his chin, and his grin shoots my heart to the ceiling. "If I tell you I'm sorry a hundred more times, will you forgive me? 'Cause I'll do it, if that's what it takes.

Jennifer Archer

#69. Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

Will Cuppy

#70. Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions.

Clayton Christensen

#71. The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda, so some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that's where you've gotta look because that's what got you into this mess.

Sarah Palin

#72. The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

Robert Bloch

#73. She found herself even without the solace of being able to blame her own unhappiness on others, a solace which is the last deceiving philter of the desperate.

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

#74. Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.

Andrea Corr

#75. Oh, we had a lot of sex back then in Montreal; it wasn't just me. Blame it on the cold. The roses in everyone's cheeks made them seem way more appealing than they actually were. We confused the indoors with intimacy and electric heating with connection.

Heather O'Neill

#76. Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame.

Ray Bourque

#77. Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

Richard L. Gordon

#78. She had seen behind the obvious truth
that Mumbai was a hive of hope and ambition
to a profitable corollary. Mumbai was a place of festering grievance and ambient envy. Was there a soul in this enriching, unequal city who didn't blame his dissatisfaction on someone else?

Katherine Boo

#79. At night when you're asleep, self-hatred's going to creep in. And you can blame it on the devil, the one who's bed you sleep in.

Ani DiFranco

#80. You can rise above it. This country gives you opportunity if you want to take it, so don't blame your environment. I look down on people who use their environment as a crutch.

Vince McMahon

#81. No disrespect to the fire god, naturally; blame it instead on His administration, presumably made up of officers of roughly the same level of ability as their terrestial counterparts. That would explain why the mild storm she'd ordered for Oida hit her instead.

K.J. Parker

#82. Don't try to blame the pain on anyone. Blaming others won't erase the pain.

Hyde

#83. People with a style of denial and blaming are definitely on the list of unsafe people to avoid. 10.

Henry Cloud

#84. I am Muslim, Islam is Perfect but I am not, If I make a mistake blame it on me, not on my religion.

Mohammed Suleman Khan

#85. If the staff does not begin with a discussion on values and instead begins by gathering and analyzing data, the process becomes head-driven. This will lead to a tendency to rationalize and assign blame:

Linda Dier

#86. I think I definitely want to blame my parents on this one. One of the things about having a minister for a father, you do tend to develop an irreverent streak. Kinda goes with the territory. And Dad was as bad as I am, really .

Matt Ruff

#87. The guard won't stop. And while they are certainly to blame, you are as well. There is blood on your hards, Prince. And Maven's. And mine.

Victoria Aveyard

#88. I blame it on Twilight. In real life, vampires only sparkle when they're on fire.

Larry Correia

#89. Never blame what you are on what someone else is.

Wes Fesler

#90. Blame it on the lies that killed us.
Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

Bruce Springsteen

#91. Romance is a lie that gives people an excuse to act like fools and later blame it on the one whom they had bestowed their supposed love upon.

Quinn Loftis

#92. Give to you; and if I have chosen my own time and way for handing it over, you can hardly blame me, considering the trouble I had to find you. Your father could not remember his own name when he gave me the paper, and he never told me yours; so on the whole I think I ought

J.R.R. Tolkien

#93. As I bicycle home, it starts to rain, cold, almost-snow kind of rain, and I'm glad. I can blame my wet cheeks on the rain.

Jenny Han

#94. Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening ... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit ... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.

Marc Blucas

#95. The only thing crazier than hallucinating a fictional videogame spaceship would be to blame it on a frosted breakfast pastry.

Ernest Cline

#96. We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

William J. Clinton

#97. Connor was a blip on our radar. Despite my fantasizing about beating the shit out of him on the regular, he's a nice guy. The only thing he ever did wrong was take a liking to the girl of my dreams. Can't really blame him for that. You are fucking spectacular.

Leisa Rayven

#98. I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist, but America's secular and anti-Christian environment left us open to our Lord's decision not to protect. When a nation deserts God and expels God from the culture ... the result is not good.

Jerry Falwell

#99. Unbelievable! You are unbelievable! First you ruin my life and then you blame it on my period!

Jane Aire

#100. You ask me, I welcome new gods. Bring them on. The god of the guns. The god of bombs. All the gods of ignorance and intolerance, of self-righteousness, idiocy and blame.

Neil Gaiman