Blaming Quotes

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
Rudyard Kipling

Everything, Others, Son

I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.
Joyce Meyer

Life, God, Attitude

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
Drew Barrymore

Life, Time, Sorry

Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being grateful. If you are complaining, you are not being grateful.
Rhonda Byrne

Remember, Grateful

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.
Hugh Jackman

Life, Through, Point

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
Samuel Beckett

Feet, Fault, Boots

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Scott Adams

Long, Others, Results

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Washington Irving

Yourself, Down, Put

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.
Paul Ryan

Others, Four, Spend

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.
Mary J. Blige

Someone, Give, Free

There were a lot of people who were a little afraid of the rage or blaming stance I was taking, and find what I am doing now more refreshing.
Alanis Morissette

Find, Afraid, Taking

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
Wangari Maathai

Powerful, Poor, Often

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
Tony Benn

Nothing, Jesus, Christ

The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
Dennis Miller

Aids, Global, Radical

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
Karl Rove

Politics, Hope, Person

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.
John Sununu

Life, Art, Business

What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.
Kevin Costner

Time, Money, Happy

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.
Patricia Ireland

Far, Victim, Statistics

I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.
Jennifer Granholm

High, President, Gas

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
Nancy Friday

Mother, Negative, Her

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
Anthony Holden

Blame, Old, Accept

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.
Lawrence Summers

Crisis, Wrong, Almost

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

Work, Anybody, Fault

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.
Julian Schnabel

Work, Time, Great

Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously.
Richard Eyre

Parents, Long, Child

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
Lionel Trilling

Act, Culture, Takes

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.
Shelby Foote

Nature, Science, Crazy

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.
Amos Oz

Down, Put, Resolution

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!
Naomi Watts

Love, Humor, Time

When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system.
Jimmy Smits

Life, Family, Become

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