Voices from the past join one another, share space and take issue with each other in provocative new ways.
Wordgrove’s Post & Review uses quotes
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THIS EDITION: fault :: excuse :: blame
Quoted In The Grove:
An artist is his own fault.
~John O’Hara
I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.
~Heston Blumenthal
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
~Louis Nizer
EndQuote:
I criticize by creation ‒ not by finding fault.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Exercise Prompt 03/28: mystery
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Justifying a fault doubles it.
~French proverb
Bad excuses are worse than none.
~Proverb
He who excuses himself accuses himself.
~Proverb
Don’t do what you’ll have to find an excuse for.
~Proverb
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
~Proverb
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And besides, he added, forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one…
~Aldous Huxley
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
~Robert Brault
The explanation is always longer when there isn’t any.
~Robert Brault
The moment I make an excuse, I confess to many things.
~Muriel Strode
Every vice has its excuse ready.
~Publilius Syrus
Excuses are reasons with a streak of jaundice.
~Henry Stanley Haskins
If there is a hard-won ability I would wish to take into a second life, it is the ability to recognize tomorrow’s regret in today’s excuse.
~Robert Brault
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
~Benjamin Franklin
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It is always too hot or too cold for the man who wants to quit.
~Poor Richard Junior’s Philosophy
If you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
~Yiddish proverb
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
~Quintilian
If your armor against the world is laziness and excuses, you’re not protecting yourself from battle and injury — you’ve trapped yourself inside with them.
~Terri Guillemets
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There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one’s excuses.
~Robert Brault
Excuses are the tools with which incompetents build to themselves great monuments of Nothing.
~author unknown
We have more power than will; and it is often by way of excuse to ourselves that we fancy things are impossible.
~François de La Rochefoucauld
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Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.
~Thomas Szasz
A pint of effort is worth a gallon of excuses.
~William Arthur Ward
We weave our excuses around events.
Thin, poor quality cloth of justification
Poor substitutes for the heavy tribal blankets
Once we wove to wrap our children.
~Phillip Pulfrey
The things you want to do are all up to you—
Excuses are sabotage.
~Terri Guillemets
The person who wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.
~author unknown
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Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
~Kimberly Johnson
Of all Excuses this is most forbid:
I did the Thing because the Others did.
~Arthur Guiterman
The truly free man is the one who will turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
~Jules Renard
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
~Quintilian
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
~Oscar Wilde
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The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
~Confucius
Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there’s a touch of class involved.
~Frank Abagnale
Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.
~Mark Skousen
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As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.
~Aimee Bender
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I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were ‒ if you screwed up it was your fault.
~Gore Verbinski
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Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent’s can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
~Vladimir Kramnik
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We don’t suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
~John Breaux
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To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
~Lu Xun
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
~Plautus
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In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life ‒ and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else’s fault ‒ and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.
~Kimberly Quinn
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The year my mom worked as a secretary at an apparel company in midtown, she would often come home in tears because she had mistakenly called her boss by another coworker’s name. ‘You know how it is,’ my father said, ‘they all look the same. It’s not your mom’s fault. There’s just no telling them apart. Same high nose and deep-set eyes.’
~Jenny Zhang
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Everything is my fault when you’re me. I don’t know why.
~Machine Gun Kelly
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When someone walks into me, whether it’s my fault or not, I say, ‘Sorry.’
~Rachel Shenton
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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
~George Herbert
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You’re the only one that’s in control of your emotions; you’re the only one that’s inside of you at all times. So control you however you want to. If you’re not happy, that’s your fault.
~Tiffany Haddish
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My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.
~Muhammad Ali
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How strange to use You only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
~Bill Copeland
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
~Oliver Goldsmith
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I’ll look back on my career as a whole and at parts of it and say I should have enjoyed that more. I suppose that’s my own fault.
~Alun Wyn Jones
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Posted From The Grove
When the soul, through its own fault… becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
~Saint Teresa of Avila
The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.
~Anand Giridharadas
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
~Anthony Trollope
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I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: ‘It Wasn’t My Fault‘ and ‘It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn’t Been There.’
~Christopher Buckley
Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.
~George Ayittey
The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can’t be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office – that all of the world’s problems aren’t his predecessor’s fault.
~Sarah Palin
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I don’t think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. . . . is concerned in my relationship with him.
~Bobby Knight
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you’ve got it when you can’t think of anything that’s your fault.
~Robert M Hutchins
Just hear Senator McCain speak. He may not give you the answer you are looking for, he may not be in agreement with you on a stance or an issue, but the man is honest to a fault.
~Curt Schilling
Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.
~David Whyte
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:
a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
~George Herbert
For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I’m not.
~Manti Te’o
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I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.
~Dennis C Blair
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me – not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
~Oliver Stone
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It’s not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don’t wake up thinking I’m so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.
~Emma Thompson
But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
~Agnes Smedley
It is not someone’s fault if they succeeded, it is someone’s fault if they failed.
~Herman Cain
It isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
~Ben Stein
But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they’ve been brought there by no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
~Rick Perry
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they’re not going to succeed.
~John Mortimer
In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
~Luke Ford
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When Indian economy was growing at the rate of 8 to 9 percent, I think everybody was quite happy. Even when there were defects in our policies, they were overlooked, and when the economy slows down, people try to find fault and excuses.
~Manmohan Singh
A troubled economy is always the sitting president’s fault. It was when Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter, when Bill Clinton defeated George H. W. Bush, and when Barack Obama defeated John McCain by running against George W. Bush.
~Mark McKinnon
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The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.
~Anthony Lewis
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
~Benjamin Franklin
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
~Jack Kerouac
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A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.
~Apollonius of Tyana
Globalization is exposing new fault lines – between urban and rural communities, for example.
~Ban Ki-moon
Greed and globalization aren’t just America’s fault.
~Arlo Guthrie
The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.
~Narendra Modi
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In golf, a wedge issue means just that: You can’t hit your sand wedge, or your lob wedge needs to be regrooved. In politics, a wedge issue is more serious still: It’s one that splits the electorate, dividing voters along ideological fault lines.
~Steve Rushin
Politics also reflects the fault lines in our society, and the fact is that it is not very easy for any marginalised group to come forward in any domain.
~Atishi
I’m here to speak for those who say the American Dream isn’t working for them, because I know it isn’t. I’m here to say it’s not your fault: the ruling class… has failed you.
~Wendy Long
I will make it a point to voice my opinions. But if I am at fault, I will also apologise.
~Hina Khan
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DESTINY, n. A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
~Ambrose Bierce
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
~Ferdinand Mount
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
~Norman Thomas
But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.
~Rebecca Harding Davis
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In the Matrix in which Americans live, nothing is ever their fault.
~Paul Craig Roberts
With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‘Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.’ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.
~Jocko Willink
What you find when you live in the United States, you live in the West, is that when somebody fails, it’s never their fault. They always like to blame somebody other than themselves for a failure.
~Stephen A Schwarzman
Wherever you find a problem, you will usually find the finger-pointing of blame. Society is addicted to playing the victim.
~Stephen Covey
Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim’s logo.
~Joseph Brodsky
…and I think it’s no particular political party’s fault. People have been left behind, and in America, we’re used to going forward. It’s always like we’re going to be better; the next generation’s going to be better.
~Dana Carvey
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I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
~P Chidambaram
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If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.
~Peggy Noonan
Liberals have invented whole college majors ‒ psychology, sociology and women’s studies ‒ to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
~P J O’Rourke
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The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production ‒ in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation ‒ essential as they are, make people sick and die.
~Barry Commoner
The Great War was nobody’s fault ‒ or everybody’s.
~Margaret MacMillan
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
~Alexander Herzen
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~The RSA: Brene Brown on Blame (3:15) preachy, but funny & relatable
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~Ivan del Rio: Blame (0.10) might be useful sometime
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~Janet Lees: Blame the Fox (4:51) lines of poetry against grey and foggy lands, to haunting music
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~Circus Tree: Blame Carousel (1:00) blame as it rolls downhill, also fun/relatable
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~PH’ Label: Excuse My French (0:49) not for the faint of heart, clips of swearing in movies
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~Radim Vanous: SPOLK / Excuse me • 58 seconds of staged people images
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~Fawlty Towers: Top 10 moments (9:53) John Cleese and cast, nothing more to be said
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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
~Edward de Bono
I could pose as a Yahoo rep claiming that there’s been some sort of fault, and somebody else is getting your e-mail, and we’re going to have to remove your account and reinstall it. So what we’ll do is reset the current password that you have – and by the way, what is it?
~Kevin Mitnick
Intensity of desire will always find a way, just as weakness of purpose will always find an excuse.
~Muriel Strode
Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.
~Robert Brault
Don’t find fault, find a remedy.
~Henry Ford
The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.
~Robert Brault
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When the plane is delayed, it’s not the fault of the girl at the desk. I’m resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.
~Tom Conti
Travel is hard, and it’s mostly not your fault.
~Andrew Sean Greer
It wasn’t about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
~Barry Sheene
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In Boston I got to a point where I thought I was putting out fires more than being a baseball coach. And some of it was my fault. I was getting stubborn. My fuse was a little shorter than it needed to be. And that helps nobody.
~Terry Francona
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
~Epictetus
My job is to show my clients that their anger is rarely someone else’s fault. It’s their flaw.
~Marshall Goldsmith (leadership coach)
Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
~Sam Snead (golf)
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It’s not Apple’s fault that they’re seeking to avoid paying taxes. They’re not lying, cheating or stealing. They’re following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn’t like the rules, they can change them.
~John Mackey
Amazon is certainly not a perfect company. However, doctors, teachers, engineers, journalists, politicians, and labor unions are also on a continuum of consciousness, and none are perfect either. It is easy to judge and find fault with any company if that is what one’s ideological biases wish to see.
~John Mackey
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It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
~Carl Friedrich Gauss
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It’s not blaming the victim. It’s not anybody’s fault. They just did something that didn’t work, that’s all.
~Kary Mullis
If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.
~Charles M Schwab
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
~William Collins
I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life – we all take risks.
~Ronnie Wood
Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.
~Joe Green
I don’t fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
~Rachel Sklar
Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it’s still your fault if they were wrong!
~David Cohen
Many businesses find their culture organized around a dangerous fault line known as ‘us and them,’ with executives on one side and employees on the other. The divide is both real and expensive.
~Punit Renjen
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Look ‒ this is the terror of being a founder & CEO. It is all your fault. Every decision, every person you hire, every dumb thing you buy or do ‒ ultimately, you’re at the end.
~Ben Horowitz
I think my greatest virtue is that I have the courage to take tough decisions. As for my greatest fault, I guess I should be a little tougher. The feedback I get always is that I am not as tough and demanding as I should be.
~Ajay Piramal
In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I’m nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It’s not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.
~Andrew Eldritch
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
~Desmond Tutu
I live in a universe in which blame doesn’t exist. I don’t believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.
~Concha Buika
I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, ‘It’s all your fault.’ Your reaction is, ‘It’s not my fault.’ But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.
~Ben Horowitz
If you are a real leader, every single thing is your fault.
~Andy Dunn
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There’s this issue where I’m really doing well and got hate ’cause I’m too light-skinned. I understand why people say that ‒ throughout history, the lighter you are, that’s how it’s been. But it’s not my fault. My mom and dad had me! I look how I look.
~Jorja Smith
I wanted to work in the Hindi film industry much more than what I was offered. But if you are a grain of rice in a wheat field, it is not your fault… You are just different.
~Soni Razdan
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Race is the San Andreas Fault of our culture as well as our history. Its fissures are forever present and not that far beneath the surface of every day life. To deny that is to risk being labeled delusional.
~Mike Barnicle
America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don’t think through them, is fascinating to me.
~Rick Perlstein
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…was appointed to be the HUD secretary. He knows nothing about the mission of HUD. He doesn’t care about people in public housing. He believes that if you are poor, it is your own fault. And he doesn’t know the difference between an immigrant and a slave.
~Maxine Waters
Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood ‒ not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.
~Jodi Kantor
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When we feel helpless later in life, fear makes us scapegoat others. Instead of fixing the problems, we say, ‘Oh, it’s all their fault – those women or immigrants are infesting our country.’ Rather than useful protest or constructive solutions, we get angry at these handy targets.
~Martha Nussbaum
When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you’re given lectures about how it’s really all your fault and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind.
~Michelle Alexander
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Something goes wrong, I yell at them ‒“Fix it”‒ whether it’s their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
~Bill Parcells
As a player, when you get beaten, you can comfort yourself by saying you did reasonably well. As a manager, when you get beaten, you think it’s all your fault, but 70,000 people and all those watching on television know it’s your fault.
~Mark Hughes
The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.
~Luther Strange
I’ve always said the quarterback and the head coach always get too much blame when you lose and too much credit when you win.
~Eli Manning
It is a fault of the whole team if you don’t deliver.
~Georginio Wijnaldum (soccer)
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You tell me you want to race down the street, I’m going to try to beat you. My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I’m going to try to beat her. And I’ll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.
~Derek Jeter
There are no excuses in fighting. You can be playing a team sport and have a good game, and you can lose. In fighting, it’s all on me. If I go out there and lose, then it’s my fault. I like that.
~Alexander Volkanovski
…like I was saying before, if you give one-hundred percent of your best, and you may have fault, but there is nothing you can do, because you gave one-hundred percent.
~Lou Ferrigno
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I’m loyal to a fault – even though I’ve been to hell and back with Vince McMahon, I would never to do anything to hurt him. But it’s also survival of the fittest out there.
~Hulk Hogan
It’s not my fault Hulk Hogan is afraid of me.
~Scott Steiner
The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes ‒ and it’s their fault.
~Billy Crystal
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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?
~Yogi Berra
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I tend to root for characters who have a lot of negative qualities, but what’s driving them forward is their passion. They’re on a mission, and maybe their approach is misguided, but you can’t fault them for giving 150%.
~Laurie Metcalf
I really like people who have the gift of the gab. I like characters that are very eloquent, articulate and confident in what they’re saying. Especially coming off ‘Captain America,’ who’s very internal and intimate, I’d love to play someone who wears their emotions on their sleeves, potentially to a fault.
~Chris Evans
I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others… name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain’t the character’s fault, that isn’t sexism, that’s just not servicing the character.
~J Michael Straczynski
I try to represent specific experiences of specific characters, and that’s all I want to try to do. I don’t ever try to think about representing a culture, because its impossible, and someone will fault you. And it just doesn’t interest me.
~Jhumpa Lahiri
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I’m choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You’re the one who’s there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don’t believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer.
~Lizzy Caplan
You can’t go around the theatres handing out cards saying, ‘It isn’t my fault’. You go onto the next one.
~Preston Sturges
I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn’t… Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.
~Peter Dinklage
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I was on cruise control from ’85 to ’95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn’t directing. I wasn’t writing. That’s not who I am.
~Sylvester Stallone
I don’t really analyze my process. I do know that if it’s not right, I won’t move on. I’m tenacious to a fault about that.
~Doug Liman (director)
If I feel that I’m not able to do my best work ‒ whether that’s my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation ‒ then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It’s the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.
~J Michael Straczynski
…if the scripts are not good, and the characters aren’t engaging, then you don’t believe in the journey, and you’re not connected to it. It’s not the technology’s fault.
~Andy Serkis
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I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting ‒ probably to a fault.
~John Lithgow
If you’re the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you’re doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it’s your fault. There’s nobody else to blame.
~June Whitfield
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A bad audition is usually the director’s fault, not the actor’s. It’s up to the director to get the atmosphere right to get the best out of your auditionees.
~Marianne Elliott
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I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it’s bad I’ll say it’s my fault. And that’s what I can say so far in all the films that I’ve done, that if you don’t like it, it’s entirely my fault.
~Ken Burns
I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.
~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
~Benjamin Franklin
When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don’t learn nothing, cause hey, it’s not your fault…
~Joe Strummer
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… Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I’m not going to fault anybody for doing what they’re doing as long as people are showing up.
~Wanda Sykes
Does ‘Jersey Shore’ make me sad for humanity that this is what’s passing for entertainment? Well, this is a business, and if that’s what millions of people want to watch, I can’t fault someone for producing it.
~Terence Winter
The corporate system dictates what gets made, and the movies are so bad because of the economic structure of Hollywood. The big business takeover of Hollywood is at fault rather than American storytellers ‒ it’s what keeps textured movies from getting made.
~James Gray
You must speak the vision of your project in a way that convinces people to pay for it. If they won’t pay for it, that is the artist’s fault. It is my fault. It is your fault. It is not the executive’s fault or the world’s.
~Jill Soloway
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~SLX Productions: EXCUSE (14:06) the weight of life, and rooftops
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~Michael P O’Hara: Blame Cupid Stupid (4:39) animated love story, rhymed
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~Dust: To Err (10:05) until the fading trumpet’s goodbye
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I think I’m probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I’m very resilient, and I think I’m quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I’m very bad with money, but I don’t see that too much of a flaw.
~Dave Matthews
I don’t think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I’m suspicious of fun. I never quite know what that is or how to deal with it or how to generate it. That’s my fault. I know it’s a burden on the people I’m with. It’s tiresome.
~Hugh Laurie
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I reached a point where I didn’t think I was that great… I think I was becoming boring as well as bored. It was nobody’s fault except mine – probably – and it might not even be my fault.
~Michael Keaton
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.
~Henry Kissinger
If you’re bored and you look bored, that’s your fault.
~Matt Berry
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Not that it was Twiggy’s fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.
~Susie Orbach `
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame;
to copy faults is want of sense.
~Charles Churchill
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
~Ovid
I love my beauty. It’s not my fault.
~Valentino Garavani
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I’m famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
~Frances Bean Cobain
I think anybody who’s doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you’re a teen idol by default.
~Jason Bateman
The thing I regret most about my life are those inane photos of me with icons. They used to come down here and dress me up, and I just tolerated it. It’s my fault. But I shouldn’t have done it. They literally brought down costumes, candles, and icons! It was unbelievable stupidity.
~John Tavener (composer)
You can’t really fault people who are experiencing fame. They’re just making their way through, and everybody around them is reflecting this fame right back at them. It’s strange.
~Justine Bateman
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How many times have we seen reality celebrities fall from grace ‒ often through no fault of their own ‒ and then go on a show like ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ and say, ‘I want to show the public a different side of me.’ And I’m screaming at the telly going, ‘This is not therapy. This is voyeurism!’
~Ricky Gervais
Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
~Jonathan Miller
The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it’s just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?
~Amy Grant
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A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it’s not your fault – you need to have your oven checked.
~Delia Smith
I don’t want anybody near me when I am cooking. If I am going to make a mistake, it has to be my fault.
~Leonard Slatkin
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My guilty pleasure is just eating really bad food. I cannot help myself, but you’re on the road during the night, and the only thing open is a fast food place, and you’re like ‘Alright. Not my fault. It’s time to eat.’
~Paige
A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it’s not my fault I like to eat.
~Neil Cavuto
I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who’s trying to sue the fast food places needs a therapist, not an attorney.
~Richard Simmons
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§ MUSIC:
The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don’t even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can’t really fault the kids for that.
~Wynton Marsalis
When I was at Capitol ‒ and this was not Capitol’s fault ‒ I was aiming, you know. I would listen to country radio and go, ‘What version of me does radio want?’
~Walker Hayes
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
~Horace
That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That’s the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That’s you on the cover. If it sucks, it’s your fault.
~Jenny Lewis
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Dance must have a precision without fault.
~Arielle Dombasle
I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn’t stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.
~Ginger Rogers
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As far as the Animals breaking up ‒ it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as we could take it. Our reunion tour in 1983 went pretty good until we left America. Then we pushed it too hard and it fell apart.
~Eric Burdon
There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it’s all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn’t choose to do this any more.
~Neal Schon (Journey)
It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It’s not their fault, but I couldn’t do that any longer.
~Brian Welch (Korn)
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A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
~Charles Kingsley
A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it’s not your fault.
~Robert Brault
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
~Edward G Bulwer-Lytton
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
~Sydney Smith
If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man’s face and another behind his back.
~Robert E Lee
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I’m probably the most honest person you’ll ever meet – to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I’m sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven’t retained that information.
~Ellen DeGeneres
I’m just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don’t have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.
~NeNe Leakes
It’s really how you deal with people. Do people respect you? Are you honest with people even if it’s something they don’t want to hear? Anyone in Hollywood will tell you I’m extremely up front and honest almost to a fault.
~Ving Rhames
I feel like I’m really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I’ve lost friends over it. Major friends. And I’m heartbroken about that.
~Shia LaBeouf
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
~Simone Weil
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~Beecher’s Fault: Liquor Store (3:00) beachin’
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~YMG Motion Pictures: Kanye • Blame Game (5:08) surprise villain
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~baranov: Inka • Blame Me (3:53) singer dancing, or dancer singing
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~Enfant Terrible Films: Luka • Blame (2:49) …but is it jealousy
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~molly paul: Excuse me (3:23) Africa, another language, nothing’s lost
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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
~Helen Rowland
I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. You’ve got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other, and we’re best friends on top of it, so we’re very fortunate.
~Max Greenfield
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Since the day Brahma created the world to this day, no one’s ever been able to satisfy a wedding guest. They always find some opportunity or other to find fault and criticise. One who can’t even afford a dry piece of bread at home becomes a lord at the wedding party.
~Munshi Premchand
…but yet they grumbled. Such is human-nature. The man who drinks beer at home always criticizes the champagne, and finds fault with the Burgundy when he is invited out to dinner.
~Mark Twain
A wedding, people decide to get married, it comes out of such love for one another and then women can turn into these other people. They’re planning something that’s the biggest event they’ll ever plan in their lives and it turns them into this other person, so it’s not totally the guy’s fault that he’s feeling disconnected from this person.
~Alison Brie
Just because a woman is beautiful doesn’t mean she can’t be a good wife. If her beauty affects her personality, then it’s her mentality that’s at fault… not the tilt of her nose.
~Fred MacMurray
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A man’s mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
~Walter Bagehot
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
~Benjamin Franklin
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
~Doris Lessing
I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won’t be my fault if he ever stops loving me.
~Eva Braun (of Hitler)
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If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I’m close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I’m bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.
~Hugh Jackman
My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.
~Tom Hanks
Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn’t made the mistakes I made, I wouldn’t have met the wonderful woman I’ve been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.
~Donald Sutherland
If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault ‒ and I must tread carefully here ‒ if she has a fault, this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the longevity of our marriage.
~Terry Wogan
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We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, ‘Oh, it’s no one’s fault.’
~Mona Simpson
I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.
~Scott Baio
I’ve slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with… what I was happy with, and that’s my own fault. I’ve got no one else to blame about that stuff.
~Shane Warne
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Guys like to gaslight us, and it’s not cool. And it happens so much; it’s happened to me in relationships. It’s happened to me where I have been cheated on, and I felt so sad and angry, like it wasn’t my fault, but that was because the person was gaslighting me into thinking it was my fault.
~Ava Max
A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It’s not always someone else’s fault. If you’re the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn’t work out, then maybe, just maybe… it’s you!
~Karrine Steffans
I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn’t believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.
~Connie Sellecca
Don’t go telling yourself you’re in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?
~Niecy Nash
I think in most relationships that have problems, there’s fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that’s shared. And it’s not just one person making amends.
~Steve Carell
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I’m a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It’s led me to some great things and also some sad things. It’s made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.
~Alexander Koch
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I worked very hard, but I think it’s unfair to make it all sound like it’s all David’s fault.
~Liza Minnelli
Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it’s been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people’s motives. Is it just because I’m him – I’m Nathan Lane?
~Nathan Lane
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Unilateral divorce has decreased the bargaining power of the person who wants the marriage to last and has not engaged in behavior that meets the legal definition of fault. On the other hand, it has increased the bargaining power of the person who is willing to leave.
~Stephanie Coontz
Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.
~Timothy Murphy
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No relationships are perfect. When they develop, there are things that have happened before in your life that you maybe don’t discuss. And there are always fault lines within every relationship. I believe it doesn’t take too much pressure to be placed on those fault lines for them to start cracking apart.
~Andrew Haigh
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Never love unless you can
Bear with all the faults of man:
Men sometimes will jealous be,
Though but little cause they see…
~Thomas Campion
…oft my jealousy
Shapes faults that are not..
~William Shakespeare
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
~Gene Tierney
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don’t have to be the one at fault to be the one who’s sorry.
~Robert Brault
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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
~Voltaire
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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places – uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me – I find fault.
~Branch Rickey
My father was a disciplinarian. He had this cane and he would spare no one if found at fault. Unlike Babita, I was not physically strong and couldn’t cope with the training. So I got the most beatings.
~Geeta Phogat (Gold, women’s wrestling, 55kg)
I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.
~Mary J Blige
I would sit in class, and I would just cry. Like I don’t even know why. It wasn’t my school’s fault. It wasn’t anyone’s fault. I just didn’t like the environment. I totally had too much on my plate. At this point I wasn’t even doing YouTube yet, mind you.
~Emma Chamberlain
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More than anything, whether it’s my dad’s fault or whatever, I wouldn’t allow myself to be loved. I lived most of my life thinking that I was unlovable, that I was broken goods, or whatever.
~Bart Millard
I wish I’d known that apologizing is a sign of strength. I had the impression that if you apologize, it’s a sign of weakness. I kind of picked up the message from my father, ‘Real men don’t apologize. You just do your best, and if you happen to hurt some people, that’s their fault. You just go on. Don’t apologize. That’s a sign of weakness.’
~Gary Chapman
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
~Quintilian
My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one’s fault. It was just how it was.
~David Warner
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One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn’t true. I always found him generous to a fault but he wasn’t reckless with his money, which was rather rare in Hollywood. He’d grown up with nothing and he wasn’t about to fritter it all away.
~Jennifer Grant (daughter, Cary Grant)
My father and mother have given me so much love, so much support, that it would trivialize their parenthood if I would reduce it just to basketball. But my dad does call me before and after every game. And when we lost a game we shouldn’t have, he told me it wasn’t my fault. And I appreciated that, because he was trying to pick me up.
~Jeff Van Gundy
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other’s faults.
~Richard Armour
Divorce isn’t the child’s fault. Don’t say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you’re really just hurting the child.
~Valerie Bertinelli
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Isn’t it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it’s we who led our parents on to bear us, and it’s our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
~T E Lawrence
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I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That’s not my family’s fault; it was my perception.
~Willie Aames
Children in foster care are there through no fault of their own, and they face challenges that would test the resolve of even the most mature adults: frequent moves, early trauma, instability, and in many cases, abuse.
~Cathy McMorris Rodgers
…although I never judge him. If you did, you’d become one of those people who is all-consumed by a fault in their past. And I haven’t got the time for it.
~Martin Clunes
American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between ‘Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother’ and ‘Every problem I have in my life is my mother’s fault.’
~Deborah Tannen
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It’s like my parents’ musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It’s their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!
~Chet Faker
My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It’s their fault I’ve become an actress.
~Bar Paly
What I do now is all my dad’s fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
~Rod Stewart
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A woman should say: ‘Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?’ If he does, then it’s the wife’s fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
~Barbara Cartland
What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.
~Jenna McCarthy
In the 1970s, girls didn’t do anything. It wasn’t their fault. For me and the other working-class girls I hung around with, our route was plotted – you were a secretary and a wife. I wanted to hitchhike around the world, go on motorbikes, be in bands.
~Viv Albertine
We have grown up watching women be used as props on a man’s journey. It’s not our fault that that’s what we saw as children. But we need to acknowledge that and do better.
~Jessica Chastain
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As a child, I’ve always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.
~Katie Price
There’s an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that’s not true.
~Patty Griffin
I never said I’m not a feminist! I wrote one column where I was being sarcastic, and I called myself a ‘wombist’. Now which sane person would say that ‘wombist’ is a better term than feminist? I was being sarcastic, and perhaps it was my fault in not getting the point across as clearly as I would have liked to.
~Twinkle Khanna
I think that’s one of the reasons women don’t tell people when they’ve had a miscarriage ‒ they think it’s their fault.
~Ali Wong
I still ask myself the same questions every woman asks. Was it my fault? Did I say or do something to make him feel like such an advance was welcome? And like most women, I never told anyone. Instead, I just quit.
~Emily Chang
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Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you’re a woman, it’s your fault ‒ not theirs.
~Condoleezza Rice
Casting couch is not just a man’s fault. It is important to say this because we blame the other side always.
~Andrea Jeremiah
Men are the weaker sex and retain their immaturity, it seems, to the grave. It’s like a built-in design fault. You can’t do anything about it.
~Naveen Andrews
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It’s not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers.
~Gloria Allred (feminist lawyer)
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I’m definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay.
~Ken Jeong
I used to be very scared of silence because I felt it was my responsibility to keep people occupied. That definitely spawns from an insecurity in myself. When people aren’t enjoying themselves, when I’m involved, it somehow comes back to it being my fault. But I do want people to have a good time.
~Dylan Sprouse
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Many girls aspire to a version of selfhood that puts a psychological glass ceiling on their potential to succeed. They suffer from what I call the Curse of the Good Girl: the pressure to be liked by everyone, generous to a fault, and flawless at everything you do.
~Rachel Simmons
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
~Anita Brookner
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Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals — except the weasel.
~The Simpsons
ENVIRONMENT The cause of all the faults you have been unable to shove off on Heredity.
~Charles Wayland Towne
A lot of leftists think it is soccer’s fault that people don’t think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet.
~Eduardo Galeano
And I know this happens because I took economics, and I’d explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o’clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.
~Lewis Black
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
~Robert Bloch
I’m not a Republican, but I was one once ‒ when I was 7 years old. Not my fault. The symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant, I’m a Hindu ‒ I was confused.
~Hari Kondabolu
I’ve been in 30 car crashes, none of ’em my fault, I swear on a stack of midgets… OK, they were probably all my fault.
~Roddy Piper
She’s generous to a fault ‒ if it’s her own.
~Arthur Baer
Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
~Pat Paulsen
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
~Robert Brault
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People were laughing at us and we knew it was our fault. The scandal caused us a lot of pain but I guess it made us face reality.
~Rob Pilatus
I do public appearances. I’m bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bits. I occasionally get taken to task for one thing or another, and I acknowledge my fault, my flaw, my failure, and I move on.
~Nick Harkaway
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
~Les Brown
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The books that stuck with me most as a child were ‘A Wrinkle In Time‘, ‘Dracula‘, ‘Hatchet‘, ‘Bunnicula‘, ‘White Fang‘, and this YA/kids’ book called ‘Nobody’s Fault‘ where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.
~Nate Powell
In general, I think people are worried about saying the wrong thing to any grieving person. On a very basic level, I think they’re frightened of touching off tears or sorrow, as though someone tearing up at the mention of unhappy news would be the mentioner’s fault.
~Elizabeth McCracken
I feel somewhere there is a fault in this whole mindset of not accepting the natural process. To age gracefully, to accept life with grace has more beauty and charm. But you have to be fit and healthy. And that is something we should strive for.
~Manisha Koirala
Age is not our fault.
~Goenawan Mohamad
It’s a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you’re going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn’t what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.
~Alan Ball
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A fault is fostered by concealment.
~Virgil
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
~Jonathan Swift
I have frequently held myself compensated for all my indolence by the fact that I recognized it; and the pleasure which the accurate observation of a personal fault afforded me was often greater than the chagrin caused by the fault itself…
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
~William Shakespeare
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
~Thomas a Kempis
Beyond fault are better answers. Between them is your openness, be the door.
~author unknown
…if you have failed, if through your own fault and your own folly, or the fault and the folly of others, if you have seemed to lose your chance, if you have lost the simple faith of your childhood, if you have atrophied your faculties, even if you have poisoned your blood, begin where you are to‑day and out of the treasured experience of the past, with all its good and also with all its evil, set your face forward toward a nobler and a more splendid future.
~Lyman Abbott
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It’s no one’s fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?
~Joan Collins
If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, ‘It’s not my fault, it’s my glands.’ It’s not; it’s greed!
~Joan Collins
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Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn’t think it was my job to be considerate to other people.
~Ron Moody
We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.
~Henry B Eyring
I’m not perfect, I just do what I think is right. So if I can’t fulfil people’s expectations, I’m sorry, but it’s not my fault.
~Conchita Wurst
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I’m empathetic to a fault. I really do – embarrassingly enough – tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.
~Kristen Bell
Teach me to feel another’s woe,
to hide the fault I see,
that mercy I to others show,
that mercy show to me.
~Alexander Pope
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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.
~Melody Beattie
I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.
~Elizabeth Gilbert
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it’s not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it’s not your fault.
~Werner Herzog
If you’re guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can’t imagine how you could have changed it, that’s very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it’s more difficult not to be at fault because it’s a subtler thing.
~Darin Strauss
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I always assess what’s my fault, but I don’t dwell on mistakes, I never have; it’s not part of my make up. I know what I am and know what I can do. You just move on.
~Joe Hart
I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.
~Will Forte
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
~Jerome K Jerome
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
~Edward G Bulwer-Lytton
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That’s one of our biggest problems, it’s always somebody else’s fault instead of our own fault.
~Don Young
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.
~Katharine Hepburn
If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.
~Richard Bach
You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can’t do both.
~Hap Holmstead
It was our fault, and our very great fault — and now we must turn it to use; We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get…
~Rudyard Kipling
I have made my mistakes my strengths instead of looking at whose fault it is.
~Arjun Kapoor
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I’m a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault.
~David Lowery
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
~Jon Taffer
I’m a passionate person, to a fault at times.
~Wale
I’m sentimental to a fault.
~David Lowery
People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
~Sydney J Harris
I think at the end of the day, I am myself, to a fault.
~Trevor Bauer
Faultless to a fault.
~Robert Browning
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@Writers Platform
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that’s only partly the fault of the writers. There’s something about the novel that resists innovation.
~J G Ballard
Authenticity does matter, but only as it serves the novel’s more traditional literary demands: that the fault lines be drawn where the internal life and the larger world meet.
~Amitava Kumar
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As people who know me know, probably to a fault, I am usually not without thoughts and words.
~Ben Rhodes
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.
~Sidney Lanier
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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
~Jack Kerouac
It is not Kafka’s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
~Hermann Hesse
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I’m a perfectionist to a fault.
~Nate Parker
People tell me being a perfectionist is a fault, but I find that’s what drives me.
~Paula Garces
I’m not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I’m rather happy to say ‒ it leaves me something to do.
~Edward Albee
My fault now is making my plays too short.
~Beth Henley
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I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others… name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain’t the character’s fault, that isn’t sexism, that’s just not servicing the character.
~J Michael Straczynski
Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can’t really fault someone for saying, ‘What I’m doing right now works, so there’s no reason to change it.’
~Jennifer Armintrout
For pity’s sake, if you don’t take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it’s not the author’s fault. It’s yours.
~Lionel Shriver
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Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
~Philip Sidney
People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It’s isn’t the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don’t think.
~Adam Arkin
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These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic; that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’ faults. ~Jonathan Swift
Some people do really find fault like there’s a reward for it.
~Zig Ziglar
A critic would sacrifice the entire rose to find fault with the thorn.
~Terri Guillemets
I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.
~Vitruvius
Now, Reader, when this book you scan,
Resolve to prove a candid man;
Not, critic-like, seek faults to find,
And every beauty leave behind;
But, should a weed appear in sight,
A flower pray cull to make it right;
And thus you’ll prove a candid soul.
Judge not a portion but the whole.
~J Johnson
Sing on, ye poets, spite of faults,
The world will stop when music halts…
~Pattie French Witherspoon
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That’s the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
~Walter Becker
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news… and it’s not entirely the media’s fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
~Peter McWilliams
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If I’m in danger then it’s usually my fault and it’s up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
~Kate Adie (BBC foreign correspondent)
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
~Henry Grunwald
You can get numbed. People can get hardened. It’s not their fault; they just get hardened. News media get hardened. Proprietors get even harder.
~Vanessa Redgrave
Online, you can’t be scooped. If you are scooped, it’s no one’s fault but your own.
~Jacob Weisberg
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Prewritten Prompt: fault
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Wild joyous gods, who winked at faults and folly,
And could be pitiful and melancholy.
~George Eliot
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For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
~Haniel Long
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It’s very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.
~Angelo Scola
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
~Tecumseh
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Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
~Joseph Smith, Jr
God’s forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.
~Jim Bakker
Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.
~Pontius Pilate
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
~Blaise Pascal
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
~Peter L Berger
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
~Dante Alighieri
In the West, people don’t have any real problems. It’s all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don’t have any bad conscience. If there’s a God that created us, if I am bad, it’s his fault.
~Marjane Satrapi
If God made the body, and the body is dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.
~Lenny Bruce
God has made all of us in a certain way, and we are all unique. I see no reason to find fault in that.
~Badshah
Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We’re not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We’re meant to be this way. It’s not our fault, it’s just who we are.
~Colin Quinn
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
~Saint Teresa of Avila
If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
~Maria Montessori
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Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.
~Cesar Chavez
If someone was born the way she was born, are you going to blame him, or are you going to blame God? Whose fault is that? Nobody’s.
~Caster Semenya
I always tell myself… that the faith I have is a gift, so I shouldn’t take that for granted. And so when people are struggling and feel they have no faith at all, I shouldn’t say, ‘Well, it’s their fault.’
~Blase J Cupich
No matter what Jesus did, someone found fault with it.
~Mother Angelica
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Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed or goes nowhere. One pollen grain either enters a stigma or it falls upon stony ground. An ovum is either fertilized or the whole project stalls out.
~Hope Jahren
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
~Florence Nightingale
We’ll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we’ve lost in the last 65 million years. If we don’t find answers to these problems, we’re gonna be victims of this extinction event that we’re at fault for.
~Paul Watson
To congratulate oneself on one’s warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.
~Robert Conquest
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.
~Barry Commoner
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
~Jacques Yves Cousteau
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Climate change is not the fault of man. It’s Mother Nature’s way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.
~Howard Bloom
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I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.
~Howard Coble
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Visual effects have always been a part of this art form. And CG is simply a tool on the filmmaker’s tool belt to tell a story, but when the end result is bad ‒ maybe it’s not the tool’s fault.
~Freddie Wong
The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don’t know their neighbors, I don’t think that technology is at fault. You don’t lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.
~John Warnock
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault – a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley’s feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
~Gary Hamel
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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
~Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Students never think it can be the teacher’s fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn’t do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it’s how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
~Danica McKellar
The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits – I wasn’t. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you’re stupid. You don’t think, ‘If this kid’s not a good fit, it could be the system’s fault.’
~Jose Ferreira
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I was never good academically. It was mainly my own fault.
~David Jason
People don’t know how to listen, and it’s not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write ‒ but nobody teaches you how to listen.
~Daniel H Pink
I don’t listen well at all. I don’t take direction well at all. I have to admit that is my main fault.
~Sloane Stephens
What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it’s generally my fault and not theirs.
~Dylan Moran
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When a child knows that he or she is dyslexic, that it’s the way their brain is programmed, and it’s not their fault, that makes all the difference in the world.
~Philip Schultz
Combating any kind of obstacle is much easier if you know that it’s real and not your fault, and it’s something you can fight against.
~Eileen Pollack
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If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
~Stephen Leacock
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§ The Exercise:
plan b
every step a misstep
every stake planted a mistake
every wrong granted
personally owned
my fault & i’m sorry
catchprase of the day
or begging pardons
steps away
… to be.
sealed off in quarantine
the audience of everything
can do no harm
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quartet with backup
metal kettle, rusted teapots
iron songbirds, watering can
grouped as one spouting porchside
bass thru tenor state of mind
no fault of theirs they can’t sing
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question #9
water, the source of life
oxygen, the breath of life
together, love iron to death
whose fault is that
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viral:
quick entertainment
or quickly deadly
who can fault the stars
the sharks their food
winds that go their way
blow the wrong direction
age of aquarious turned contagious
who’s to blame this age of rage
where’s-the-love still waits to know
i’m ready to be contaged
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not yet so far
2 = number of feet needed to reach destiny
star . fallen from a distance above
interest + 1 :: 2B friendly
distance-plus-one to reach love
time, love’s impatient wait for discovery
fault the stars, far too distant falsely constant
how long the length to obscurity
zero, the timeless distance of instant
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personal ponder #9
fault me for asking so
i need to know
should i stay or go
which place forego
wishes vacillating
thinking oscillating
to and fro
but shirking work
to surrender worth
not play with words
that’s a given
simple answer: no
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nostalgia
calcified deified memories
‘t ain’t nobody’s fault
yesterday’s better quality
hope and certainty
forced to kneel
bow to reality
the laws of ten
time and consequence
learning mortal gravity
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5s ‘n 7s
rubbed the wrong way, shaken up
I myself have a small fault
soft loam of love cracked apart
willing victim, motherhood
fertile earth still giving birth
art of love, a broken heart
~Andrea (not Saint Andrew)
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fault me for transgressing you
younger me still wanting to
love-naive but learning too
chipped veneer that covers two
urgent nature saying who
best shares the stage, worlds to view
hapless loner to be true
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there is no lure like beauty
seducing inspiration
temptation as a duty
words worthy their expression
else fault the stars for shining
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frauds of love at fault
gaslighters and wannabes
failed posers that fade
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cobwebs and their husks
like love, then the memories
the fault of spiders
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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes
Many young people don’t vote because they feel unwelcome and irrelevant, and that’s the system’s fault… As much as MTV tries to get them to vote, politicians don’t include young voters because young voters don’t donate money.
~Ken Hakuta
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
~Edward Coke
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I’m not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
~David Lee Roth
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
~Henri Bergson
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
~Jack Kerouac
Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.
~John Quincy Adams
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When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.
~John Hawkes
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
~John Henry Newman
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I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it’s a great fault, but I have no power over that.
~Richard E Grant
There’s something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one’s self, you know?
~Pema Chodron
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Forgive completely. They whose Words recall
Forgiven Faults, have not forgiven All.
~Arthur Guiterman
He understood (what so many faultlessly polite people do not understand) that a stiff apology is a second insult. He understood that the injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
~G K Chesterton
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I don’t know that there’s any rhyme or reason to bullying… it’s not even the bully’s fault, which is why it’s such a difficult thing to combat.
~Dove Cameron
If I can convince you that I’m going to beat you up, and you believe me, that’s your fault.
~Bernard Hopkins
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
~Benjamin Franklin
Never find fault with the absent.
~Alexander Pope
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You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
~Erica Jong
Blame is just a lazy person’s way of making sense of chaos.
~Douglas Coupland
Blame is for God and small children.
~Dustin Hoffman
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There is so much good in the worst of us,
and so much bad in the best of us,
that it ill behooves any of us
to find fault with the rest of us..
~James Truslow Adams
Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
~John Ruskin
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The Olio: Quotes Harvested
https://bqotd.com, https://brainyquote.com, https://quotegarden.com, https://wisesayings.com
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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com
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The Salmagundi: Video Harvest
https://venmo.com, https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com
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Wordgrove: Homepage links to stories, poems, essays, early offerings, and…
Prologue, a first look and introduction to Archipelago: the prequel series
of Archipelago & Oakley (alternative fiction: seven, in two volumes)
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