Top 1200 Don't Blame Me Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of how I will approach problems in my life, that things will turn out better or worse because of me and nobody else, that was the day I knew I would be a happier and healthier person. And that was the day I knew I could truly build a life that matters.

Whenever I hear people utter anti-German sentiments, I say: You can't blame Germany for defending its own interests.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching 'Scooby Doo.'

My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.

Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor, but let's not forget that's a practice that was initiated by George W. Bush.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.

All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

I guess I can't blame him for feeling bitter. Going from being the terror of Bulgarian nights to a janitor would kinda suck

People see themselves on camera. They're ashamed of the things that they do, so they have a choice: Either they accept responsibility for it, or they blame the show for it. It's a human reaction.

People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

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.

We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.

The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.)

I don't want to appear to be placing blame, but as far my life is concerned, everything is pretty much my dad's ball's fault.

They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why don't they write down what I said?" In congressional races, 90 percent of the time the answer is, "Because you are boring and you don't have anything that makes me interested in listening to you. Why the heck should somebody write it down? There's nothing here worth hearing."

I understand when results don't go well, it gets broken down and people blame whoever. You've got to take the good with bad.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

Violence comes in many forms and can be particularly disturbing when confronted in an educational setting if handled dismissively or in ways that blame victims.

What do you do when life blindfolds you and spins you around? We think it's our fault, that we're to blame, when really we should be focused on being gentle with ourselves.

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

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.

Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.

Goals often come from a mistake much further up the field, yet the analysis and blame will always be on the defence.

I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?

We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources.

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

I am baffled by many Western politicians who continually blame low-cost imported goods for their own economic challenges.

One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.

The grievance industry always seeks to blame other people while never finding a solution. That's my problem with it, when solutions are there to be had.

When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.

There's not one thing going wrong in this country Democrats can blame Donald Trump for, and yet they're trying to tell everybody that he is the one not qualified, that he is the one not fit.

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.

I have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realize? people are buying the whole thing.

I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.

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.

I blame the Russians for a lot, but pinning the creation of ISIS on them is a murky, tenuous, triple-carom bank shot at best.

There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.

I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break his head. When I got older, I realized that you shouldn't do it that way. I realized that you've got to do it through education. Children are not to blame. It is the parents. How can a child know whether his playmate is an Italian, a Jew or Irish, unless the parents have discussed it in the privacy of their homes.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.

I guess you could blame it on being raised by comics and television, but I've always loved robots in any shape or size.

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

The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.

Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.