| "When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple Who is to blame for the riots The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings The killers are to blame." »Dan Quayle |
| "If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches." »Rainer Maria Rilke |
| "There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution." »Oscar Wilde |
| "When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change." »Thich Nhat Hanh |
| "If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based." »Betty Naomi Friedan |
| "There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde |
| "I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself" »Lawrence Peter Berra |
| "Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse." »G. C. Lichtenberg |
| "When two quarrel, both are to blame." »Dutch Proverb |
| "blame someone else and get on with your life." »Alan Woods |
| "Everyone is responsible and no one is to blame." »Will Schutz |
| "I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on." »Oscar Levant |
| "It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry." »Nikolai Gogol |
| "When you blame others, you give up your power to change." »Douglas Noel Adams |
| "To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so." »Robert Orben |
| "Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others." »Titus Livius |
| "Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame." »Erica Jong |
| "The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on." »Robert Albert Bloch |
| "Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had 600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too." »Lichty and Wagner |
| "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." »John Burroughs |
| "The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice." »Doug Larson |
| "Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame." »Pearl Sydenstricker Buck |
| "Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| "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 |
| "Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do." »Fred Waggoner |
| "I do not confer praise or blame I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man." »Saskya Pandita |
| "If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again." »Sharon Salzberg |
| "Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods." »Seneca |
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