Blame Me Quotes - Page 2

• People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet. And also they ate a lot of vegetables.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Vegetables, Years, People

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

  Diogenes

  Path, Blame, Existence

  "Anthology (Book 3)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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• Praise me not too much,
  Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
  Who know me.

  Homer

  Greek, Too Much, Blame

  Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.314

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• I believe the first story I ever wrote was about a young girl who was terribly mistreated by her very cruel parents, and one day the girl fled to the woods to live amongst a pack of wolves. Hey, I was eleven, loved wolves, and had been grounded for what I felt was a minor infraction. Can you blame me?

  Victoria Laurie

  Girl, Believe, Writing

  "Chit Chatting with Author Victoria Laurie". Interview with Jill Sheets, www.relatemag.com. April 1, 2011.

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• 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

  Teaching, Men, Camouflage

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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• All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying whatever I'm supposed to pay, though I'm giving away a large amount of the money and that probably lowers my tax rate because I'm giving away so much money. But change the law, but don't blame me for the law. I'm not writing the law. I didn't write the law.

  David Rubenstein

  Writing, Law, Giving

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• Sure, the killer was my son, but I didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun. It's the killer on this TV screen, you can't blame me, it's the images he sees.

  Jack Johnson

  Art, Son, Gun

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• As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Freedom, Responsibility, Long

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Fighting, Delicate Life, Needs

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• Satan wants to cripple me and then blame me for limping.

  Adrian Rogers

  Want, Blame, Satan

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• Don't blame me. The devil made me do it, and the Lord said you have to forgive.

  Wes Fesler

  Forgiving, Devil, Blame

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• So what name would you rather I call you? she asked as she headed out of the parking lot. Ias or Alexion. He gave her a devilish grin that set fire to her hormones. I would rather you call me lover. He wagged his eyebrows playfully at her. Danger rolled her eyes. Like all men with a onetrack mind, he was incorrigible. Don't blame me, Alexion said in an almost offended tone. I can't help it. You should see the way you fight. It really turned me on. Could you tell me how to turn you off? -Danger and Alexion

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eye, Fighting, Men

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• He gave her a sly, sideways look. "Did you bring it?" "My list? Heavens, no. What can you be thinking?" His smile widened. "I brought mine." Daphne gasped. "You didn't!" "I did. Just to torture Mother. I'm going peruse it right in front of her, pull out my quizzing glass—" "You don't have a quizzing glass." He grinned—the slow, devastatingly wicked smile that all Bridgerton males seemed to possess. "I bought one just for this occasion." "Anthony, you absolutely cannot. She will kill you. And then, somehow, she'll find a way to blame me." "I'm counting on it.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Thinking, Glasses

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• He’s playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. Don’t blame me because he’s a better manipulator than I am — I haven’t been around long enough to learn all his tricks.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Long, Blame, Enough

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• 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

  Mom, Moving, Civilization

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person." "That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said." "All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it." "But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Emotional, Games, Play

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• I sat up and the blankets fell away.I looked down and found I was wearing pokemon pajamas. "Sadie,"I said,"I'm going to kill you." She batted her eyes innocently."But the street merchant gave us a very good deal on those.Walt said they would fit you." Walt raised his hand."Don't blame me,man.I tried to stick up for you." Bes snorted,then did a pretty good imitation of Walt's voice:"At least get the extra-large ones with Pikachu.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Men, Hands

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• You blame me for this, don't you?" he says. "I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

  Melina Marchetta

  Jobs, Needs, Blame

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• A quote from 'Fire' where Fire projected a thought to her best friend Archer: "Love doesn't measure that way, she [Fire] thought to him [Archer]. And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.

  Kristin Cashore

  Archer, Fire, Feelings

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• You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.

  Holly Black

  Games, Blame, Gullible

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. And I can understand why you're angry, but you can't blame me. You can't hate me for taking your word.

  Gayle Forman

  Hate, Promise, Sacred

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.94, Penguin

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• Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.

  Anne Fadiman

  Responsibility, Writing, Voice

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• I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Thinking, Administration

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1084, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You blame me for weeping, but how can I help it when you will not weep for yourselves, though your immortal souls are on the verge of destruction.

  George Whitefield

  Soul, Helping, Blame

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• I really don't see any men sitting in the corner office plotting to keep women out. All the men I know are actively trying to promote women, to get more women involved. These men have wives they care about; they have daughters they desperately care about. So I don't think it's fair to blame men - or I don't think it's accurate to blame men anymore.

  Debora Spar

  Daughter, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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