Blame Quotes - Page 34

• Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness is merciful to us when it pleases Him to allow us to encounter blame and public contempt. I am sure you have borne patiently the embarrassment you experienced because of what has happened. If the glory of the world is nothing but smoke, the contrary is a solid good, when it is accepted in the right way. I hope that great good will come to us from this humiliation.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, World, Way

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• Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.

  William Penn

  Men, Quaker, Knows

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.299

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• To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find no other device by which to teach a demonstrable truth other than by giving satisfaction to a single virtuous man while displeasing ten thousand ignoramuses - I am he who prefers to address that single man by himself, and I do not heed the blame of those many creatures.

  Maimonides

  Education, Science, Men

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• I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Credit, Dessert

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• When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.

  Deepak Chopra

  Experience, Storm, Want

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.43, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Remember praise is more valuable than blame.

  George S. Patton

  Leadership, Sports, Remember

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• Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

  Albert Schweitzer

  Leadership, Sports, Healing

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• Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

  Albert Schweitzer

  Leadership, Sports, Healing

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• It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Errors, Wizardry

  Dean Koontz (2014). “Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)”, p.154, Bantam

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

  Adrian Rogers

  Want, Satan, Limping

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• We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

  George W. Bush

  Mistake, Book, Home

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• Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that — romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Artist, Men

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• Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did to each other every day? They just carried on life and pretended like the evil didn't exist, as long as it was happening out of their direct view.

  Rachel Caine

  Responsibility, Views, Long

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• I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my vehicle that is essential. I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my education that is essential. I don't think what is essential about me is my house or my car or my clothes. What is essential about me? Well, I think what is essential is that I live and embrace life right now, wherever I am. I grab it in my arms! Don't spend time crying about yesterday-yesterday is over with! I forgive my past. I forgive the people who've hurt me. I don't want to spend the rest of my life blaming and pointing a finger.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Hurt, Past, Thinking

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• I cannot morally blame all Americans for allowing, for instance, the birth of the Federal Reserve System and the money destruction that has followed. They are simply ignorant about it and don’t know what happened or what is happening. They think that prices go up rather than that dollars go down.

  Robert Prechter

  Thinking, Ignorant, Dollars

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• Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital as far as I could see for absolutely no reason. She feels no shame about the death of this woman, she's saying nothing about the death of this poor woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. And why it's allowed to be I really don't know... It wasn't because of two DJs in Australia that this woman took her own life, it was the pressure around her.

  Steven Morrissey

  Kings, Australia, Two

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• People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an honest person, so I let the camera capture whatever it captures whether you believe it or not is up to you; it’s not my responsibility, blame my camera, not me.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Believe, Reading

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• Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself.

  Rapsody

  Men, Do It Yourself, Misfortunes

  "Dark Knights". Song by Rapsody, 2013.

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• As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.

  Pearl Cleage

  People, African American, Energy

  "Q and A with Author Pearl Cleage". ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• At some point you must decide if you want to succeed or just be someone who was never to blame for anything going wrong.

  Robert Breault

  Risk, Want, Succeed

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• When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States' policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  War, Years, America

  "Kirkpatrick Hit Liberals for Blaming America First". www.washingtontimes.com. May 15, 2006.

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• If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

  Dani Shapiro

  Hurt, Writing, Creative

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• They (american press) always blame America first!

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  America, Firsts, Presses

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• Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people are oppressive and bigoted. And yet there is a Good that will triumph over Evil in the end. From a Christian perspective the problem with both kinds of stories is that they tend to blame problems on things besides sin and identify salvation in things besides God — and therefore are ultimately too simplistic.

  Timothy Keller

  World, Problem, Sin

  "Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work".

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• Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don't know whom to blame for their calamity.

  Walter E. Williams

  Simple, Tariffs, Invisible

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.209, Hoover Press

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