Placing The Blame Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. science, of a kind, is no less a precursor and a cause of civilization than it is a consequent.

Henry Smith Williams

#5. He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

Bill Vaughan

#6. Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

Tim Jackson

#7. If you're so hell-bent on placing blame, I suggest you look in the mirror.

Maria Semple

#8. That scene, like the one before it, is perfectly believable and totally made up

Laurent Binet

#9. Nature as chameleon

Bell Hooks

#10. Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.'

Hank Smith

#11. Any man for her had better be well-dressed, well-groomed, and well-hung, and if he couldn't get her off at least twice with his mouth, she wouldn't return his calls. Couldn't imagine why she was thirty-nine and still single.

Lauren Gallagher

#12. Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

John Leonard

#13. Fiery red curls catch my attention. I've never seen hair like hers. It's long and hangs to just above her ass, but it's not trashy looking. The curls are large and thick. If I were a descriptive man, I'd almost call her hair luscious. But, I'm not so I'll leave it at fiery and thick.

Rein Scott

#14. Placing blame was easier than adding up the mounting figures of what he'd lost.

Alice Sebold

#15. I don't want to appear to be placing blame, but as far my life is concerned, everything is pretty much my dad's ball's fault.

Dana Gould

#16. Take what the old-church
found in Mithra's tomb,
candle and script and bell,
take what the new-church spat upon
and broke and shattered.

Hilda Doolittle

#17. Do I forget, or do I refuse to remember?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. 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

#19. We must not, then, aspire to please the multitude. For we do not practice what will please them, but what we know is remote from their disposition. "Let us not be desirous of vainglory," says the apostle, "provoking one another, envying one another.

Clement Of Alexandria

#20. Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.

Stephen Schwartz

#21. Even the poor are rich in prejudices.

Marty Rubin

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

Steve Maraboli

#23. Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.

Brandi L. Bates

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

Tony DiCicco

#25. 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

#26. So perfect - I'm right where I need to be!

Adam Dunn