Top 100 Quotes About Blame
#1. Presidents, whether things are good or bad, get the blame. I understand that.
George W. Bush
#2. You can blame it all on fate and the universe, but in the end you alone decide if you're going to lie down and let hell take you under, or if you're going to stand strong in defiance of it all with your middle finger raised.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#3. How do we nurture both families and communities, promote a civil discourse, and approach problems with solutions and hope instead of fear and blame?
Jim Wallis
#4. The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.
Lenny Wilkens
#5. See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
Homer
#6. Personal responsibility for everything is the hallmark of an enlightened being. If you blame others, bad luck or the Universe/God for your difficulties, you clearly do not understand the Principle of Oneness. You are in charge and responsible for everything. Embrace your power and make no excuses.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#7. For it is not because they fear doing unjust deeds, but because they fear suffering them, that those who blame injustice do so.
Plato
#8. You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
Truman Capote
#9. The passive voice could always be used to obscure blame.
Lorrie Moore
#10. Do not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt. The solution is not, "Main Street, not Wall Street," but to change the system where Main Street cannot function without Wall Street.
Slavoj Zizek
#11. When I left, they were stuck with the burden of finding someone else to blame for their life ... Pointing their anger everywhere, but never looking in the mirror ... Continuing the cycle that led to their misery.
Steve Maraboli
#12. We blame others for our wrong doing but when we do good we blame ourselves
Mark Thomson
#13. I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.
Howard Coble
#14. You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless.
Graham Greene
#16. Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.
Haruki Murakami
#17. When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding
Kirsten Siggins
#18. Mental illness doesn't listen to reason. It doesn't even have a language of love. It only knows despair. You cannot blame yourself. You can't allow temporary problems from your past to become lifelong regrets.
Kathryn Perez
#19. Bad things don't just grow on one path, they're everywhere. So don't blame yourself when those things happen. Don't let yesterday take up much of today.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#20. She had heard it was easy to blame others for one's own failures. But that wasn't exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened
hard to live with it.
Frank Beddor
#21. Women need attention therefore women will complain, develop hatred for men and say that you're the one to blame.
Drake
#22. Blame the city I'm a product of it
Drake
#23. I'm the Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; I had a belly-ache.
Stephen King
#24. Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#25. I have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realize people are buying the whole thing.
Jonathan Lethem
#26. Most postmodernists blame the decline of the dracono-bardic tradition on the sudden and soaring popularity of the Beatles.
E.K. Johnston
#27. Fighting lets ye both say wha' needs to be said. Just be sure you fight clean, and dinna bring up old hurts or blame one another.
Karen Hawkins
#28. 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
#29. I don't blame you if you hate me. I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I'll dream of you. -City of Lost Souls
Cassandra Clare
#30. Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.
Deepak Chopra
#32. Faithful followers of Christ aren't on earth to assign blame; we're here to free the trapped, bandage the wounded, help the hurting, and celebrate homecomings.
Kyle Idleman
#33. No, we had nothing to blame ourselves for; it was just that we hadn't suffered enough.
Simone De Beauvoir
#34. You will go. And you will live a good life with my people. But bad things will happen. They always do. And when they do, you must not blame yourself. You must enjoy life in spite of bad things.
K.B. Laugheed
#35. The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
#36. I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
Joan Rivers
#37. And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, and wish to do it anyway, here lies the error and the blame.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#38. Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.
Roger Rosenblatt
#39. Now, I take full blame for all that came next. For I continued the story ... but departed the text.
Berkeley Breathed
#40. It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.
Maureen Corrigan
#41. Pia was blackmailed into committing a crime more suicidal than she could possibly have imagined, and she had no one to blame but herself.
Thea Harrison
#42. It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
Cab Calloway
#43. Two birds locked inside a cage, we aren't supposed to last,
And I guess we both could blame it on our past.
But I'm out of excuses if you're done with pretending,
I'm ready to start the story that doesn't have an ending.
Kandi Steiner
#44. I mean sleeping with you was plan B. Dewey jumped the gun on that one, though I can't say as I blame him. If I were in his shoes, I'm not sure I would have even bothered with plan A." (Wendell)
Marshall Thornton
#45. It's impossible to remain angry or blame other people for problems in your life when you are saying , I am responsible
Brian Tracy
#46. Still, I shouldered part of the blame, maybe because it gave me some sense of control in an uncontrollable situation.
Kelley Armstrong
#47. There are a lot of people who are eager to assign blame. I think we're [USA] eager to try and find some solutions. One thing that would help would be comprehensive immigration reform legislation.
Josh Earnest
#48. Do you have any idea how boring you became, Rachel? How ugly? Too sad to get out of bed in the morning, too tired to take a shower or wash your fucking hair? Jesus. It's no wonder I lost patience, is it? It's no wonder I had to look for ways to amuse myself. You've no one to blame but yourself.
Paula Hawkins
#49. How is it my fault that his name sounds like low-grade pornography? Blame his dumbass parents.
Cassandra Gannon
#50. Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#51. It's not quite the Tom Jones show, but yes, I've had undergarments. If I get a bra chucked on stage I'll hold it up so the audience can decide what to think. And I'll usually blame a guy for doing it.
Michael Bolton
#53. We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#54. Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie - but that was basically it. It was seen as dirty and kind of ignorant to have these ambitions, to want to be a big band.
Brandon Flowers
#55. I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?
Wendy Mass
#56. I am partly to blame for the decking boom, and I am sorry, I know it?s everywhere these days.
Alan Titchmarsh
#57. There was no one to blame but the mighty, ruthless stranger. Thus was complexity reduced to demonology, which is a defining feature of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, or, indeed, any "anti-ism.
Josef Joffe
#58. It's easy to blame traffic jam
when you're late and in a hurry.
Toba Beta
#59. Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.
Homer
#60. You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
Diogenes
#61. No, I don't blame him. Just miss him is all.'
'Still?'
'Every day.
Ransom Riggs
#62. Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him.
Craig Groeschel
#63. For this world, which lives only through belief, being forgotten is our ultimate death curse. Had you not come, we would have slowly faded until nothing remained. Do not blame yourself for the machinations of fate.
Kathryn Tanquary
#64. Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
John McCarthy
#65. We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.
Seneca The Younger
#66. My opinion is that you cannot really blame cinema for the result of what is somebody's mindset. I think it's just entertainment. For me, I've always believed in doing things that I can sit and watch with my family. So far I think I've stuck to that, and I will also in the future.
Sonakshi Sinha
#67. You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.
Paul Hawken
#68. Blame is one of the gravest problems we face, spiritually and emotionally. It keeps us more concerned about being "good" than about being honest.
Henry Cloud
#69. You have to forgive everyone for everything. You can't cling on to any blame that you may be using to make sense of the story of your life.
Russell Brand
#70. A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that
Dan Gable
#71. If your everyday life seems to lack material, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to summon up its riches, for there is no lack for him who creates and no poor, trivial place.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#72. It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.
Richard Louv
#73. I couldn't exactly blame Jane Austen for being a romantic. What the hell else was there to do back then for fun?
Kristin Walker
#74. One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.
Iyanla Vanzant
#75. If I close my eyes, plug my ears, and hold my tongue, all of this will cease to exist. I can pretend it never happened. No one will blame me if I choose to shove these memories into the back of my mind.
Leigh Hershkovich
#76. Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear
don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.
Sophocles
#77. She was clean: no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?
Jennifer Egan
#78. There's a strange lack of knowledge about the role of drag queens in our culture. I attribute this to the appalling state of our country's education system. Others might blame an utter lack of interest. Who am I to judge?
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
#79. My father had infused my childhood with unspoken blame. He was the kind of man who scoped around looking for things to be angry at. It had turned me into a knee-jerk suck-up to authority - Mom, Dad, teachers. 'Whatever makes your job easier, sir or madam.' I craved a constant stream of approval.
Gillian Flynn
#81. WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.
Dave Eggers
#82. How does someone go from thinking that if he cannot rescue, he must destroy? And do you blame him, or do you blame the folks who should have told him otherwise?
Jodi Picoult
#83. The state of emergency and critical nature of the times do not allow me, as they do not allow anyone, to embark on a blame game.
Nicos Anastasiades
#84. Take the blame that belongs to you, and nothing else. I'm asking you to look it in the eye and face it for what it is.
C.J. Redwine
#85. So, your saying choices and destiny shape the course of our lives? I think so, yes. It's just easier to blame fate for all of the mistakes.
Gena Showalter
#86. They make everything they touch turn absolutely academic and useless. To my mind, They're mostly to blame for the mob of ignorant oafs with diplomas that are turned loose on the country every June.
J.D. Salinger
#87. Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind.
Janet Fitch
#88. We don't blame your shadow for the shape of your body. Don't blame others for the shape of your experience.
Gillian Duce
#89. I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
Jack Canfield
#90. If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.
Chapman Cohen
#91. 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
#92. don't go blaming yourself for your son's mistakes. You can't blame yourself for their mistakes any more than you can take credit for the right ones they make.
J.L. Whitehead
#93. It's so much easier having someone else to blame when things go where they shouldn't.
Colleen Hoover
#94. With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men's victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men's victimizer status camouflages men's victim status.
Warren Farrell
#95. To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'
Chris Lilley
#96. But I don't blame you anymore, that's too much pain to store ... it left me half dead ... inside my head. And boy looking back I see I'm not the girl I used to be. When I lost my mind, it saved my life.
MoZella
#97. It is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.
Leo Tolstoy
#98. You know better than to blame yourself." "Knowing better doesn't always stop it.
J.D. Robb
#99. I know very well that we are not all equal, nor can be so; but it is my opinion that he who avoids the common people, in order not to lose their respect, is as much to blame as a coward who hides himself from his enemy because he fears defeat. The
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#100. Do not
Blame the world.
Find a solution.
Sri Chinmoy
