Blame Quotes - Page 5

• The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

  Sinclair Lewis

  Funny, Country, Humorous

  Sinclair Lewis (1956). “Dodsworth”

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• If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is no.

  T. Harv Eker

  Secret, Complaining, Needs

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Nov 02, 2010

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• To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

  Plutarch

  May, Fault Finding, Faults

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• 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.

  Golda Meir

  Men, Average, Doubt

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

  Billy Sunday

  Ifs

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

  Twitter post from May 05, 2014

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• The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

  Tony Benn

  Jesus, Russia, Spain

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• 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.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Medicine, Different Ideas

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• The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

  Patricia Ireland

  Numbers, Statistics, Victim

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• We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

  Wangari Maathai

  Nature, Powerful, Government

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

  Dwight Morrow

  Forgiveness, Party, Rain

  Speech, 10 Oct. 1930

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• 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

  Funny, Women, Empowering

  My Two Countries ch. 1 (1923)

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• Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

  Chaka Fattah

  Blame Someone, Want, Majority

  "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. February 8, 2005.

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• You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Twilight, Judging

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Heart, Praise

  1967 To My Daughters, With Love,'First Meeting'.

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• An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.

  Sam Ewing

  Experts, Lasts, Funny Business

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• 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.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Player, Want

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• Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.

  Waylon Jennings

  Drug, Helping, Problem

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

  Kay Granger

  Als, Al Qaeda, Lays

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• 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.

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Cheer, Men

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

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  President, Republican, Easy

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

  Lillie Langtry

  Done, Willing

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

  Geoffrey Holder

  Inspirational, Children, Teaching

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• No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Hate, Hands, People

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• Blame someone else and get on with your life.

  Alan Woods

  Life, Blame Someone, Belief

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