Fault Quotes - page 25

It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it. (Brian Mulroney)
Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants. View quote
Shirin Ebadi
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. View quote
George Eliot
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots. View quote
George Eliot
My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside of me. The chickens lay their eggs and the eggs hatch into other chickens, which then lay eggs. View quote
Haruki Murakami
I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. 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. View quote
J. G. Ballard
When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself. For by attending to this thou wilt quickly forget thy anger, if this consideration is also added, that the man is compelled; for what else could he do? or, if thou art able, take away from him the compulsion. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. View quote
Jonathan Miller
In anger he had no need of oaths, his words were like sharp arrows that smote into the very heart. The fault was that he exaggerated (which tendency I also inherit), yet only in description and for the sake chiefly of humorous effect. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common. (Thomas Carlyle)
My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child. View quote
Janusz Korczak
It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride? View quote
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! View quote
Joan Collins
Beware of analogies: for millenia they corrupted medicine, and it may be their fault that today's pedagogical systems are so numerous, and after three thousand years of argument we still don't know which is best. View quote
Primo Levi
Stand back, leave me alone, submerged people, Go away. I haven't dispossessed anyone, Haven't usurped anyone's bread. No one died in my place. No one. Go back into your mist. It's not my fault if I live and breathe, Eat, drink, sleep and put on clothes. View quote
Primo Levi
If shame is cried upon him, ... he will point out ... that today he has to earn his living, and that it is not his fault if he is eager to support the class which takes a pleasure in his productions. View quote
Julien Benda
I blame science! I blame technology! Domin! Myself! All of us! We, we are at fault! For the sake of our megalomania, for the sake of somebody's profits, for the sake of progress, I don't know, for the sake of some tremendous something we have murdered humanity! So now you can crash under the weight of all your greatness! No Genghis Khan has ever erected such an enormous tomb from human bones! View quote
Karel Čapek
It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all. View quote
Kary Mullis
The difference between ethics and morality is quite essential. What is beneficial for one people is the ethics. Morality is the matter of intention, when I say I believe something is good and I will do it because my motivation is right. The fact that in the end it will be a disaster, is not my fault, I did it for good reasons. I despise that. I think that it is the excuse of the weaker. I am not interested in intentions. I am interested in consequences. Any one can have good intentions, which I believe is the matter of decency. I do not discuss others' intentions. I assume that anyone has good intentions. But it is so trivial, that I am not interested in it. I am interested in what comes next. If I will not benefit from the outcome, I am not interested in good intentions. View quote
Zoran Đinđić
Since the rape, it has felt like I've faced an unimaginable battering – first in going to the police, being in front of officers who don't understand you. Then when you say it publicly, there are people who don't believe you, who mock you. Or there are people who believe it but say it's your own fault. Before this, I had heard a lot of women talking about the fact they weren't believed. And when History of Violence was published, I realised the full extent of what those women had gone through. (Édouard Louis)
Disordered nerves are the origin of much religious despair, when the individual does not suspect it; and then the body and mind have a reciprocal influence upon each other, and it is difficult to tell which influences the other most. The physician is often blamed, when the fault lies with the minister. Depression never benefits body or soul. We are saved by hope. View quote
Ichabod Spencer
We all know, in fact, that the insane.. ..derive a great deal of comfort and consolation from their imagination, that they enjoy their madness sufficiently to endure the thought that its validity does not extend beyond themselves. And, indeed, hallucinations, illusions, etc., are not a source of trifling pleasure... These people are honest to a fault, and their 'naiveté' has no peer but my own. Christopher Columbus should have set out to discover America with a boatload of madmen. And note how this madness has taken shape, and endured. View quote
André Breton
To this point is my mind reduced by your fault, Lesbia, and has so ruined itself by its own devotion, that now it can neither wish you well though you should become the best of women, nor cease to love you though you do the worst that can be done. View quote
Catullus
I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken. View quote
Alexander Pope