172 Quotes on Blame

• Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.

  Author: Rachel Zoe

• Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

  Author: Prince William

• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

  Author: David Wells

• As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

  Author: Simone Weil

• I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

  Author: Shane Warne

• Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

  Author: Ville Valo

• The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

  Author: Dave Thomas

• If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

  Author: Sachin Tendulkar

• If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

  Author: Joe Strummer

• People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

  Author: J. Straczynski

• ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant.

  Author: Kenneth Starr

• 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.

  Author: Leon Spinks

• What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• Blame heaped on planners and those said to be responsible for unreliable intelligence.

  Author: Thomas Smith

• Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

  Author: William Simms

• They always lost but he didn't blame me because to a gambler, a bad tip is better than no tip at all.

  Author: Phil Silvers

• I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

  Author: Peter Shaffer

• Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.

  Author: Brian Setzer

• Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

  Author: Franz Schubert

• It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

  Author: Friedrich Schiller

• The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them.

  Author: Fred Savage

• Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.

  Author: John Saul

• Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.

  Author: Warren Rudman

• People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

  Author: Johnny Rotten

• When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

  Author: Mitt Romney

• Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

  Author: John Rockefeller

• Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

  Author: Oscar Robertson

• If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks.

  Author: Marc Racicot

• People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• 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.

  Author: David Price

• The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

  Author: Michael Pollan

• Neither blame or praise yourself.

  Author: Plutarch

• The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

  Author: Plato

• Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

  Author: Laurence Peter

• 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.

  Author: Kathleen Parker

• Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

  Author: Saskya Pandita

• 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.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

  Author: Satchel Paige

• 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.

  Author: Camille Paglia

• I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

  Author: Adnan Pachachi

• To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

  Author: Robert Orben

• Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

  Author: Randy Newman

• Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

  Author: Dwight Morrow

• It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

  Author: Christopher Morley

• Oh! blame not the bard.

  Author: Thomas More

• I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you're young, and there's so much helium going on around you, you can't decipher the real end.

  Author: Pras Michel

• There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

  Author: Golda Meir

• Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.

  Author: Ken Mehlman

• I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

  Author: Patrick McGoohan

• 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.

  Author: John McCarthy

• For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?

  Author: Tim Matheson

• History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

  Author: Cotton Mather

• There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  Author: Don Marquis

• It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation.

  Author: Roger Mahony

• If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there.

  Author: James Longstreet

• Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

  Author: Titus Livius

• Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

  Author: Gordon Lightfoot

• I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

  Author: Michael Lewis

• I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

  Author: Oscar Levant

• The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

  Author: Doug Larson

• When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful.

  Author: Don Larsen

• I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done.

  Author: Lillie Langtry

• It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.

  Author: Nicholas Kristof

• You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose.

  Author: Anna Kournikova

• When people are lame, they love to blame.

  Author: Robert Kiyosaki

• Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  Author: John Kennedy

• Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.

  Author: Thomas Kempis

• Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

  Author: John Keats

• I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.

  Author: Paul Kantner

• And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.

  Author: James Jones

• It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.

  Author: Roland Joffe

• The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

  Author: Alphonso Jackson

• The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.

  Author: Mark Hurd

• Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.

  Author: Rex Hunt

• We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

  Author: Hubert Humphrey

• To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

  Author: Hubert Humphrey

• Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

  Author: Geoffrey Holder

• I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

  Author: Anthony Holden

• Blame is for God and small children.

  Author: Dustin Hoffman

• The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

  Author: Thomas Hobbes

• You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.

  Author: James Hillman

• I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.

  Author: Anita Hill

• No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

  Author: Alexander Herzen

• We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

  Author: Katharine Hepburn

• My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

  Author: Teri Hatcher

• Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them.

  Author: Gregory Harrison

• The search for someone to blame is always successful.

  Author: Robert Half

• When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

  Author: Robert Half

• Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

  Author: Meg Greenfield

• I praise loudly. I blame softly.

  Author: Catherine Great

• All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

  Author: John Gray

• The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.

  Author: Kay Granger

• If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

  Author: Mikhail Gorbachev

• It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

  Author: Nikolai Gogol

• A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

  Author: Arnold Glasgow

• The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.

  Author: Greg Ginn

• If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

  Author: Khalil Gibran

• I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

  Author: Peter Garrett

• If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

  Author: Richard Gallienne

• It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

  Author: Thomas Fuller

• Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

  Author: Anna Freud

• It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

  Author: Maureen Forrester

• I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.

  Author: Shelby Foote

• In short, Luck's always to blame.

  Author: Jean Fontaine

• Luck's always to blame.

  Author: Jean Fontaine

• The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

  Author: Paul Farmer

• I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

  Author: Jerry Falwell

• The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause.

  Author: Recep Erdogan

• Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

  Author: Umberto Eco

• When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

  Author: Bob Dylan

• Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.

  Author: Mary Douglas

• Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

  Author: Bruce Dickinson

• Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

  Author: Moshe Dayan

• I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.

  Author: Bobby Darin

• I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.

  Author: Richard Daley

• The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

  Author: Kieran Culkin

• I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!

  Author: Robert Crumb

• If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

  Author: Marcelene Cox

• I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.

  Author: Noel Coward

• Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

  Author: Doug Coupland

• I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

  Author: Billy Corgan

• I imagine a lot of people tune in simply to watch reporters get bitch-slapped by Mother Nature, and frankly, who can blame them?

  Author: Anderson Cooper

• The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

  Author: Calvin Coolidge

• Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

  Author: Mason Cooley

• People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

  Author: Robert Collier

• 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.

  Author: Howard Coble

• I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

  Author: Yvon Chouinard

• I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

  Author: Catherine Catherine II

• A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.

  Author: Allan Carr

• She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!

  Author: Andrew Card

• Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?

  Author: Jose Canseco

• I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

  Author: James Cameron

• 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.

  Author: Cab Calloway

• We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

  Author: Jack Cade

• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  Author: John Burroughs

• A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

  Author: John Burroughs

• I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.

  Author: Delta Burke

• So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

  Author: Pearl Buck

• No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

  Author: Anita Brookner

• Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

  Author: Chastity Bono

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

  Author: Robert Bloch

• People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?

  Author: Marion Berry

• I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

  Author: Yogi Berra

• In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

  Author: James Beattie

• Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

  Author: Bernard Baruch

• I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

  Author: Roland Barthes

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

  Author: Nancy Astor

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

  Author: Nancy Astor

• The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.

  Author: Dido Armstrong

• When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

  Author: Robert Anthony

• The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

  Author: Dante Alighieri

• If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.

  Author: Moustapha Akkad

• If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.

  Author: Danny Aiello

• Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

  Author: Aeschylus

• It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

  Author: John Abizaid

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