There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.
Too often, it's the Washington way to hide, point fingers, and try to place blame on someone else.
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation.
Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
I was the person, I think, who first said the evening of September 11 that we shouldn't hold this against the Arab community, the Muslim community. We should focus on the individuals and that groups that were involved and not participate in group blame.
We always blame other people when things go wrong. For example, family to friends, you think they'll stay by your side, and you realise they never do. But that's life.
I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.
A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.
There is a restless identity in the New World. The New World needs an identity without guilt or blame.
More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept that our brains are a myriad of smaller components, you must reject such notions as character, praise, blame, and free will.
It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.
It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.
I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.
Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!
The critics of Donald Trump are looking for people to blame for his rise. There are many people who are either surprised by his strength or don't like him and want to blame someone to explain why he has been this popular.
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
You see, feminists don't really like to define the Patriarchy. They prefer to keep it nebulous and amorphous so they can conveniently blame it for everything that goes wrong in their lives. Not being paid enough? Patriarchy! Not getting a promotion? Patriarchy! Too many catcalls? Patriarchy! Too few catcalls? Patriarchy!
I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.
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.
In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.
The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.
