Faults Quotes - Page 37

• It was a nice bit of blackmail that kept him off my back, but he refused to take the message that I wasn’t going to work for him. ’Course, that might be my fault…since I seemed unable to say no when he waved enough money at me.

  Kim Harrison

  Nice, Might, Messages

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• We lead the world in only 3 categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of 20 year old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world I don't know what the f...k you're talking about.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Country, Real, Believe

  "Fictional character: Will McAvoy". "The Newsroom". Season 1, Episode 1: "We Just Decided To", www.imdb.com. June 24, 2012.

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• I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become… This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.

  David Malouf

  Real, Transformation, Metamorphosis

  David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.58, Random House

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• Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Falling In Love, Fool, Enough

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• True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  True Friend, Love You, Imperfection

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2010). “Ten Things I Hate about Me”, p.270, Scholastic Inc.

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• Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

  William P. Young

  Love Is, Stronger

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2007.

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• It has always seemed to me that if one falls in love with any gentleman one becomes instantly blind to his faults.But I am not blind to your faults, and I do not think that everything you do or say is right! Only—Is it being—not very comfortable—and cross—and not quite happy, when you aren’t there?” “That, my darling,” said his lordship,taking her ruthlessly into his arms,“is exactly what it s!” “Oh—!” Frederica gasped, as she emerged from an embrace which threatened to suffocate her. “Now I know! I am in love!

  Georgette Heyer

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Gentleman

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• Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.

  Lee Child

  Mistake, Work Out, Long

  FaceBook post by Lee Child from Aug 11, 2015

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• There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle.

  Brad Thor

  Men, Ego, Demand

  Brad Thor (2012). “Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #3: The Last Patriot, The Apostle, and Foreign Influence”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too

  Cecelia Ahern

  Dream, Jobs, Memories

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• I gave her a smile that I hoped conveyed something like: Hey, you know I’m on your side. Gods are such jerks! But what can you do? Probably my expression actually conveyed: It’s not my fault! Please do not kill me!

  Rick Riordan

  Expression, Your Side, Hey

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• He was the sort of guy who took a lot without giving her anything back The more he hurt her the more desperately she loved him. Life's strange. Sometimes things happen almost as if we're punishing ourselves for some fault that we can't really identify.

  Guillaume Musso

  Hurt, Giving, Guy

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• Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don’t always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don’t wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Lying, Stupid

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• Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Fall, Ice

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.71

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• Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.

  Anne Holm

  Responsibility, Often Is, Shirk

  Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics

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• You can be happy with someone who likes you despite your faults - until you meet someone who likes your faults.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Likes, Despite

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• With our own shortcomings, we are in no position to judge anyone else. The best way to forget the faults of others is to remember our own.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Encouragement, Judging, Way

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• As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves

  Seneca the Younger

  Struggle, Men, Mind

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• A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

  Ayn Rand

  Zero, Suffering, Weakness

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.32, Penguin

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• And I am a weapon of massive consumption
  And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.

  Lily Allen

  Weapons, Function, Consumption

  Song: The Fear, Album: It's Not Me, It's You, 2009

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• I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault.

  Reed Hastings

  Ideas, Video, Six

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• Kids in America today are overweight and lazy, and it's their parents fault for letting it happen.

  Phil Robertson

  Kids, America, Parent

  Phil Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're the leader, everything is your fault.

  Terry Goodkind

  Leader

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.21, Head of Zeus

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• The crisis in Ukraine is all the European Union's fault. Its leaders negotiated a trade deal with Ukraine, which essentially blackmailed the country to choose between Europe and Russia.

  Marine Le Pen

  Country, Russia, Ukraine

  "​Crisis in Ukraine is ‘all EU’s fault’ – France’s Marine Le Pen". www.rt.com. September 6, 2014.

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• The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.

  Chris Hedges

  Inability, Pathology, Rulers

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