Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
John Keats

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl S. Buck

Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.
Herman Cain

She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!
Andrew Card

So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.
Vincent Bugliosi

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
Susan Sontag

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong

The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls.
Herman Cain

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.
Dave Thomas

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis

The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.
Kay Granger

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
Plato

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.
Kieran Culkin

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
Alphonso Jackson

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
Nancy Astor

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Calvin Coolidge

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
Robert Bloch

The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.
Mark V. Hurd

The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.
Dido Armstrong