Quotes About Accusations

#1. This was our language: half-truths, obvious lies, accusations neither one of us would ever make. It was a system eery bit as complicated as Morse code or the dancing of bees. Don't ask, don't tell, stay civil.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#2. TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary's clerk.

David Pietrusza

#3. There is wisdom in madness, and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everybody is capable of everything.

Joseph Heller

#4. In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#5. Even the false accusations of a person of dubious morality can taint the reputation of an upright servant.

Hock G. Tjoa

#6. Nothing so enchants attorneys general, their eyes generally fixed on higher public office, as slinging accusations against successful financial executives. Preening press conferences and fawning media coverage are virtually guaranteed, whether or not the charges have substance.

Kenneth Langone

#7. I do not believe the accusations against my husband, not for one second.

Anne Sinclair

#8. I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which we have our hearts broken, suffer the loss of loved ones, worry ourselves half to death about our kids.

Nick Hornby

#9. My transgressions and short-comings present me with a list of accusations, but I bless Thee that they will not stand against me, for all have been laid on Christ.

Anonymous

#10. The accusations make me want to be kid again. Why isn't my mommy calling them big fat liars?

Kendare Blake

#11. Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

George Haven Putnam

#12. Accusations are merely the envy of the unenlightened given form.

Brian Farrey

#13. One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.

Donald Rumsfeld

#14. It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.

Jane Austen

#15. Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake.

John Bunyan

#16. Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.

Isocrates

#17. Just like Adam, when we blame people and situations for our problems, below the surface we are also making accusations against God.

Paul David Tripp

#18. The best defense to inquiry was semi-coherent rants and accusations.

Sam Sykes

#19. The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger those who are already vulnerable to accusations by nasty regimes of acting as foreign agents.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#20. The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

Rob Bell

#21. How long before the shouting starts? How long before the tears and the accusations and the pain? That specific stone n the stomach pain when you lose something you haven't got round to valuing? Why is the measure of love loss?

Jeanette Winterson

#22. Hypothesis: Brothers and sisters forge family bonds through a complex byplay of accusations and insults.

Gordon Korman

#23. Are you certain of these accusations?" "I would stake my life on them, my lord Emperor." "You already have.

Drew Karpyshyn

#24. Saying of the Prophet
Accusations
Anyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it.

Idries Shah

#25. It is my hope that the Christian community in the United States will cease to appeal to the Bible as a direct support for the state of Israel and will have the courage to deal with the political realities without being cowed by accusations of anti-Semitism.

Walter Brueggemann

#26. It was pathetic, the raving accusations of an ego blind to its own lies.

Steven Erikson

#27. When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.

Dean Cain

#28. I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

Boris Trajkovski

#29. If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

R.C. Sproul

#30. Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.

Richard Engel

#31. These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I, with greater policy, concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by everything. But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.

Jane Austen

#32. Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.

Louis Stokes

#33. Using a big word like 'plagiarism' ... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

Michel Houellebecq

#34. The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

Glenn Greenwald

#35. Having a record of well-child visits also protects parents, especially those who choose to follow an alternative lifestyle, from being accused of medical neglect. An ongoing record showing regular well-child visits goes a long way to negate such accusations, supposing they are ever made.

Anonymous

#36. When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

Michel De Montaigne

#37. Lord, bless the works of my hands. Let my name be associated with good things. Shield me from persecution and false accusations; guard me against greed, discouragement, and sabotage. I welcome opportunities to grow and mature. Let my actions be in sync with Your will. In Jesus's name, amen.

Cindy Trimm

#38. The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.

August Strindberg

#39. Long ago the accusations had begun,
And suddenly knew by whom it had been judged

W. H. Auden

#40. I understand it. People are very willing to say things about me, to make accusations about me that are - I don't get upset about them anymore, but they are very regrettable.

Hillary Clinton

#41. There is nothing new and nothing truthful in the false accusations against public officials make by the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation today, ... The simple reality is that the Schaghticoke fail to meet the criteria for federal recognition.

Richard Blumenthal

#42. To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.

Alfred Adler

#43. They can't foresee what we intend to do next. This is why they lose their nerve. They can't cross the zone of silence they herd us into. A zone bordered on their side by the distant din of their false accusations, and on our side by our silent final intentions.

John Berger

#44. Where there is asakti [infatuation], there accusations cannot refrain from happening. That is indeed the nature of asakti [infatuation].

Dada Bhagwan

#45. At the moment, if you asked me, I would say that this book is about keeping the heart of flesh in a world that wants to put in a heart of stone; and about how, regardless of the accusations regularly flung at them from all quarters, learning and literature can help their adherents accomplish that.

Pamela Dean

#46. The cold edge to his voice sent a shiver down Shiara's spine. She looked over at Dev, certain he would laugh off Andrei's accusations, but his expression did nothing to reassure her.

J.C. Morrows

#47. I've been called a "baby killer" and I've been told I should die and that I'm ruining women's lives. Those accusations hurt for sure - and I pause when such labels are applied to me - but because they come from people I don't necessarily respect, I have an easier time moving beyond them.

Amy Richards

#48. Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.

Thomas Sowell

#49. Disagreement based on LEGITIMATE IJTIHAD which does not create DISCORD or DISUNITY is a BLESSING for the UMMAH and an enrichment of ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE. Objective disagreement in itself poses no threat if it is coupled with TOLERANCE and is free of FANATICISM, ACCUSATIONS, and NARROW-MINDEDNESS.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#50. Spring had come to Washington. The cherry blossoms were in bloom. Yet the glacial mood of the capital refused to melt. Accusations

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#51. How dare you?' Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. 'How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?'
'I have not yet made any accusations,' Willo said. 'Perhaps it is our own guilt clamoring in your ears.

Cinda Williams Chima

#52. They'd dueled in the lamplight of her kitchen that night, savaging each other with accusations that could never be recalled. Now, he couldn't remember half of what they'd said, only the colors and lights and seething tide of fear all around them. He could still taste the acrid burn of unfairness.

Lauren Gilley

#53. It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.

Publilius Syrus

#54. All couples fight, but healthy couples fight fair. Unhealthy couples fight dirty, with below-the-belt jabs, sucker punches, angry accusations, and bitter grudges. Healthy couples fight for resolution. Unhealthy couples fight for personal victory. Dr.

Craig Groeschel

#55. It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.

Dixie Lee Ray

#56. All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

Paula Abdul

#57. Once you start rummaging around in the realm of the unverifiable there is considerable room for creativity, and accusations of sorcery are often blended with self-serving motives. Tribal people, anthropologists have shown, often single out despised in-laws for allegations of witchcraft, a convenient

Steven Pinker

#58. Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.

Margaret Thatcher

#59. Maybe I got sick of accusations, sick of being Polonius's daughter, and Laertes's sister, and Hamlet's girlfriend. Maybe I wanted, for a short while, simply to be myself.

Lisa Mantchev

#60. Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I'd call it a party game, except that it's a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria.

Andrew Plotkin

#61. I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

Sean Combs

#62. Yeah, I know what "off the horse" means. I just can't remember how we got to the point where I'm defending myself against the imaginary accusations of a man who gives hairless rats to neighborhood children, and who apparently trusts the nonexistent squirrel junkies in the attic.

Jenny Lawson

#63. According to FBI statistics, false accusations of rape are no more common than for other crimes.
Different Crimes, Different Criminals: Understanding, Treating and Preventing Criminal Behavior, p109

Doris Layton MacKenzie

#64. There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom.

Jessica Sorensen

#65. Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.

Margaret Atwood

#66. Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.

Billy Graham

#67. That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

Mila Kunis

#68. A real Christian preaches with deeds and discussion, not accusations and condemnations. You should never listen to the person shouting the loudest in anything." ~ K.D. Worth, The Grim Life

K.D. Worth

#69. Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.

Shannon Hale

#70. But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.

J.D. Salinger

#71. If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

Epictetus

#72. I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.

Rand Paul

#73. Nothing beats effective communication because it clears all doubts, misunderstandings, accusations, rumour, insecurities, gossip, hearsay, etc.

Uzoma Nnadi

#74. It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims, and in my case it directly impacts on my relief work and damages my reputation as an artist. The harm done is often difficult to repair.

Cat Stevens

#75. Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

Samuel Richardson

#76. In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.

Anais Nin

#77. When the confusion of accusations and excuses, of desires and fears, makes everything with us so obscure, he sees quite clearly into all our secrets. And at the heart of them all he finds a name which he himself has inscribed: Jesus Christ.

Eric Metaxas

#78. I think by the time I left Egypt, there was about like 400 accusations against me in the drawer of the public persecutor office. It's a way for them to exhaust you, to push you, to put you under pressure, to distract you.

Bassem Youssef

#79. Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.

James Fenton

#80. But somewhere in my circle of supposed loyal "fam" was a dirty motherfucker. The accusations were pointing at everybody.

Jessica N. Watkins

#81. I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case.

Matt Groening

#82. Repeating the commonplaces about atheism and materialism and sophistry, which are the stock-accusations against all philosophers when there is nothing else to be said of them.

Plato

#83. It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.

George R R Martin

#84. What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits.

Khaled Hosseini

#85. Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.

Jane Porter

#86. I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.

Clive Barker

#87. When religion ceases to be speculative and becomes factual and "true", it will become science. Science can be used to prove or disprove opinions, beliefs and accusations. Until any religion crosses that line, who is anyone to use their religion to judge others?

Christina Engela

#88. To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

William James

#89. Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking his mercy but releasing our sin-sick sorrow to the Savior, who already rejoices to receive it.

Bryan Chapell

#90. People can accuse you of anything but that isn't who you are. It means nothing. Accusations don't make a person, actions do. Make sure your actions show the real you to the world.

Shelley K. Wall

#91. Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#92. I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

Ron Paul

#93. In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Enid Bagnold

#94. How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark.

Dana Gioia

#95. Accusations are useless.

Dominique De Villepin

#96. Prosecutors are all used to people who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.

Eric Schneiderman

#97. I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.

Albert Camus

#98. It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

Yasser Arafat

#99. Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.

Stephen Covey

#100. The accusations against Bill Cosby are a classic case of he said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said.

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