Fault Quotes - page 15

Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious. (Baruch Spinoza)
Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. View quote
Bram Stoker
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest. View quote
Jane Austen
The purpose of consciousness is to illuminate the world. If we try to run consciousness at half its proper voltage, the result will be a 'devalued' world. But that is not the fault of the world; it is our fault. Low-voltage consciousness shows us less of the world that high-voltage consciousness, just as we would see an art gallery less clearly by candlelight than by sunlight. View quote
Colin Wilson
Deep down, I don't create anything. I'm just someone who simply lifts a rock and exposes what's beneath it. It's not my fault that monsters come out some times. View quote
José Saramago
If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders are clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers. View quote
Sun Tzu
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it. View quote
Zig Ziglar
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much! View quote
Lewis Carroll
I do think if I had given him two fence-rails to sleep on he would not have found fault. That was Abraham Lincoln in all things relating to his own comfort. He would never permit people to put themselves out for him under any circumstances. View quote
David Dixon Porter
Great complaints were made by both sides as to whose fault it was that there was a failure, but I told the navy I didn't want to hear anything about it; they did not get through, and didn't get the fort, and the less said about it the better. (David Dixon Porter)
But I mean no harm nor put fault On anyone that lives in a vault But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him. View quote
Bob Dylan
Well, it's sugar for sugar And salt for salt If you go down in the flood It's gonna be your own fault. View quote
Bob Dylan
Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame. View quote
Stephen King
They've found fault with me enough, in all conscience, for putting violet shadows on bodies. View quote
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Anytime there is a problem in a relationship, you should first see it as your own fault. Even if others are to blame, you will only add to the problem by considering them to be at fault. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
View all conflicts as your own fault first. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later. View quote
Boris Pasternak
Lamachus chid a captain for a fault; and when he had said he would do so no more, "Sir," said he, "in war there is no room for a second miscarriage." Said one to Iphicrates, "What are ye afraid of?" "Of all speeches," said he, "none is so dishonourable for a general as ‘I should not have thought of it.'" View quote
Plutarch
To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature. View quote
Plutarch
He has glorified himself by recording that when men were detected in any fault, they would excuse themselves by saying that they must be pardoned if they did anything amiss, for they were not Catos: and that those who endeavoured clumsily to imitate his proceedings were called left-handed Catos. (Plutarch)
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City. View quote
Douglas Adams
It's so amazing when people tell me that ... electronic music has not got soul. And they blame the computers. They got the finger pointed at the computers like, "There's no soul here." ... You can't blame the computer. If there's not soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there. And it's not the tool's fault. View quote
Björk
If someone kisses a woman and goes no further once they are alone together, then in my opinion it's his own fault. A woman who freely surrenders her lips gives the rest very readily. View quote
Chrétien de Troyes
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. View quote
Sarah Palin