Faults Quotes - Page 35

Life is ridiculous. It's not our fault.

In Republican fantasy world, everything is always Obama's fault. Somehow, he's weak and he's ineffective, and yet he pulls the strings on everything in the world.

The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

We are the fault line; if you don't deal with this fault line, you're going to have an earthquake, that's what we always said.

The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.

One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.

He [Barack Obama] talked about a crisises and he was blaming the Republicans on this crisises. It's like me blaming my wife for my drinking. I don't se how this is the Republicans fault.

I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg's narrative also implies: "Well, it's your fault if you couldn't make it." There is a certain injustice in that.

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down--not by solving the problem, but by deciding it's their own damn fault.

After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

It's not my fault everybody wants me

It's not Cam's fault," Bex told her. "We rigged her bed so that if she gets up, I get an electric shock." "Liz designed it," Macey said, and Bex shrugged "We told you we were taking precautions." Of course. Because at Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy".

Sometimes when a philosopher's views are widely rejected by the world, the fault is not with the philosopher but with the world.

I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!

I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.

Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.