Faults Quotes by Eugene Mirman, Bob Lefsetz, Plato, Sloane Stephens, Lauren Oliver, Arthur Guiterman and many others.
If you’re not a successful artist it’s your fault.
Sometimes believers are hampered in their public effectiveness by limitations that are no fault of their own.
Democracy‘s got endless problems and faults and dangers, but it’s certain the alternatives are not better.
Everything is your fault if you’re any damn good.
How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).
Read proudly–put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
Do not make excuses, whether it’s your fault or not.
Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it’s blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. I mean World War I was a horrible war and it was mostly the fault of science, so that was in a way a very bad time for science, but on the other hand we were winning all these Nobel Prizes.
All this has been my fault.
His worst fault is, he’s given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.
Not to alter one’s faults is to be faulty indeed.
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.
Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few. See much and get rid of what is dangerous and be careful in acting on the rest and your causes for regret will be few. Speaking without fault, acting without causing regret: ‘upgrading‘ consists in this.
Anyone who faults Romney or Obama or any public figure for demanding quote approval is missing the point. The journalists were no abused weaklings here. They made a bargain for access to these newsworthy figures that they thought was in their favor – they’re only complaining because they got caught.
It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.
We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.
If friends disappoint you over and over, that’s in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren’t going to change simply because you want them to.
Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.
A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.
Vices are their own punishment
Our friends don’t see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
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.
Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply
sincere. For God doesn’t mind your imperfections: He minds your
indifference.
sincere. For God doesn’t mind your imperfections: He minds your
indifference.
Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.
Loneliness is not a fault but a condition of existence.
I like them all-pointers, setters, retrievers, spaniels-what have you. I’ve had good ones and bad of several kinds. Most of the bad ones were my fault and most of the good ones would have been good under any circumstances.
What is it to be wise?
‘Tis but to know how little can be known,
To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
‘Tis but to know how little can be known,
To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
When someone stabs you it’s not your fault that you feel pain.
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.
A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It’s not always someone else’s fault. If you’re the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn’t work out, then maybe, just maybe… it’s you!
To maintain a fault known is a double fault.
American television, for all its faults, still has a black presence in shows and even in commercials. You’ll see black people in automobile ads, black women starring on their own television shows. We don’t see that on British television.
Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.
The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?
Golf teaches you honesty. It teaches you discipline. It gives you a strong appreciation of nature. And personal responsibility, something that lacks in our society at times. I mean, it’s only your fault, you can’t blame anyone else when you shank it. Or pick the wrong club.
You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything–in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.’ ‘You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.
You don’t love if you don’t take the beloved‘s faults for virtues.
I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn’t believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.
Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free will is capable of good or evil. But when the will sighs under the trial of the tempter and does not will what is presented to it, there is not only no fault but there is virtue.
In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.
When the Democrat Party lost to Ronald Reagan in two landslides, it was the American people’s fault. It was Reagan’s fault.
A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It’s an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me…. I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.
Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.
I’m human, I feel, I understand. That’s the highest level of love, is understanding – when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I’ll consider your feelings, too.
Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn’t realize I’d been missing all my life. You’re the only person I’ve ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn’t waiting for me to become someone else.
One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.
Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.
When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts.
If anything goes wrong, the customer doesn’t care whose fault it is. He’s the one who’s going to suffer anyway.
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
It’s not my fault Snow didn’t have any other options coming out of high school. If going to college gets you a career backup goaltender job, and my route gets you a thousand points and a thousand games, and compare the two contracts, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out whose decision was better.
I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become… This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.
Possibly. Basically,everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.
It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.
All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
If you’re bored in New York, it’s your own fault.
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one’s self.
If I’m in danger then it’s usually my fault and it’s up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.
Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
It’s your own fault for being so camera-ready,” I tell Gale. If looks could kill.
Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
Only great men have great faults.
For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn’t the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.
The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don’t know their neighbors, I don’t think that technology is at fault. You don’t lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women.
I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.
I write because it makes God happy that I write. I sing because it makes God happy that I sing. And if it makes God’s people happy, then all the better. But if it fails to do so, it’s probably my fault.
Men’s faults do seldom to themselves appear.
I thank God for having given the Company subjects who belong more to Him than to themselves, and who serve the neighbor at the risk of their lives! They are like unrefined gold, which becomes visible in fire and which would otherwise remain hidden under ordinary actions and sometimes under faults and failings.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little ‘personal characteristics.’
I gave her a smile that I hoped conveyed something like: Hey, you know I’m on your side. Gods are such jerks! But what can you do? Probably my expression actually conveyed: It’s not my fault! Please do not kill me!
Your partner cannot fault you for refusing to host a perpetual-motion party or for the fact that you must sleep and will eventually die.
Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.
The fault is in the system and not in the men.
Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.
You only live once. If you don’t enjoy it, it’s your fault, nobody else’s
He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
I think I’m incredibly self-aware to a fault.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
As a child, I’ve always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.
Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.
Faultless in spite of all her faults.
Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
It’s when you are down that you learn about your faults.
I’m loyal to a fault. I may have learned that from my mother.
This is my fault. Give me the ball.
Some directors don’t tell you that it’s not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you’re not delivering what’s required, and then you discover it’s not you at all, it’s something in the background that’s out of focus.
If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault… Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.
It is not women’s fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men’s lives and women’s also. Which is precisely what has happened today — to women.
But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God’s fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
None, none descends into himself, to find
The secret imperfections of his mind:
But every one is eagle-ey’d to see
Another’s faults, and his deformity.
The secret imperfections of his mind:
But every one is eagle-ey’d to see
Another’s faults, and his deformity.
In New York there are between four and six big designers, and the shows last one week. There is something wrong here. It’s our fault. We can’t stand up for it. They take our ads, don’t they? Why don’t they want to stay longer in Milan? Why do we have to comply? We have the most beautiful brands, they are Italians.
A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.
Right now I’m having so much trouble with D.L. Moody that I don’t have time to find fault with the other fellow.
…Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn’t his fault).
If little faults proceeding on distemper
Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye
When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested,
Appear before us?
Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye
When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested,
Appear before us?
I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.
I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone’s afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
Faults are soon copied.
The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.
I know that sometimes the chemistry just isn’t there between the model, photographer, hair and make-up. It’s nobody’s fault and you just have to do better next time.
Kids raised on a culture of “We’re not going to keep score in the game because we don’t want anybody to lose.” Or just ignoring race to a fault. You can’t say “the black kid over there.” No, it’s “the guy with the red shoes.” You can’t even be offensive on your way to being inoffensive.
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
The future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying exaggerations. It doesn’t matter who you are today, if you don’t show up in that mirror you are just not going to matter very much. Our kids have to show up in the mirror.
If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
If I had a bad game and we lost I take it very seriously. I feel if I play a good game that other guys will follow and that will help us win more games. And if I don’t, I take it upon myself as being my fault.
If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It’s your fault. You have to build a coalition that’s attractive to people.
Don’t mess with my kids again. I will look past it once because I do believe its my fault. But if you touch my kids one more time, then you’ll be in danger too.
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.
In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged a person of his own sex, but a mental illness which one blamed on his mother. Consequently, a homosexual is not responsible for his behavior – it’s his mother’s fault!
There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.
One of the main faults of a fool is that he never changes his mind.
Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light; and let us remember for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till we begin to cure them.
I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.
Faults They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them all so well before,– Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more.
What you’re blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that’s no one’s fault and nothing you can change.
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
Keep your heart in peace and let nothing trouble you, not even your faults. You must humble yourself and amend them peacefully, without being discouraged or cast down, for God’s dwelling is in peace.
Jackie?” “It wasn’t your fault.
I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn’t… Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection.
The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.
I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.
See failures as learning experiences, not character faults.
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
Its like he knows he’s better than you, but doesn’t look down on you for it because he knows it’s not your fault.
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
I know is that the response [for Difficult People ] has been really great. I think it’s for smart people. I think it’s for people who obviously care about pop culture or know about it, even if it’s to a fault. I think it’s for outsiders.
You can’t blame the President for the state of the country, it’s always the poets’ fault. You can’t expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don’t have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.
Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end… To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.
I’m a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It’s led me to some great things and also some sad things. It’s made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.
When I talk about the chickification of either the news business or football or anything else, some people think I’m joking or making halfhearted fun, little swipes here at feminism, but some of it’s really serious stuff. You never, ever, ever hear how women are at fault in anything, just like in this abuse business.
The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don’t have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don’t learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.
The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.
I’ve seen my whole family struggle, with money, with relationships, with alcohol, and I thought there must be a better way. As you mature, you realize you don`t choose your parents. It`s not your fault what they do and you should not be ashamed.
I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life – we all take risks.
Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and it can be turned either to constructive ends or destructive ends. That’s not the fault of science.
If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganisation; (6) rout.
Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.
He is all fault who has no fault at all.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.
Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else‘s?
Sometimes discipline, which means ‘to teach,’ is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.
Seems I used to do everything like I was on a mission. If it was alcohol, I wanted to drink till I couldn’t see straight. If it was golf, I wanted to beat everybody‘s brains out. If it was driving, I can get there faster‘n you can. It’s not anybody’s fault, I guess. I was stubborn as hell. I had no direction.
The Law is the true embodiment of everything that’s excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.
Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.
One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
I only see the faults, flaws, the imperfections. That attracts me.
It’s not my fault that people don’t know me. I’m going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.
Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.
To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.
If you hear my idea but don’t believe it, that’s not your fault; it’s mine. If you see my new product but don’t buy it, that’s my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you’re bored, that’s my fault too.
Set up rules for when you will “give” not lend money. Never lend. My people know that I’ll help with college. I’ll help if they lose they job thu no fault of their own.
The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
Neglect mending a small fault and ’twill soon be a great one.
People have their faults, but it doesn’t prevent you from loving them.
The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.
It’s not my fault that people are perverts.
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.
It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.
I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won’t be my fault if he ever stops loving me.
Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
The Hideout is here to help you get through today and tomorrow. Be brave. It’s not your fault. Remember, the road will get smoother and there is always hope that tomorrow will be better.
I don’t believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed through no fault of their own.
You can’t go around the theatres handing out cards saying, ‘It isn’t my fault’. You go onto the next one.
You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.
I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
it’s your own fault for encouraging him…, you know. Now he thinks he’s a human being. Neal of Queens cove
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
If you fall on concrete, that’s yo ass fault
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.
I couldn’t help it,” I said, knowing how lame that sounded. It was as bad as Angeline’s “it’s not my fault” mantra.
I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution of the United States there is on the earth. In my feelings I am always ready to die for the protection of the weak and oppressed in their just rights. The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground.
It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush… It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.
I’m often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she’s only got one major fault – it’s called breathing.
True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.
I don’t know what to believe in the mainstream media anymore. My instinct is to not believe any of it, and it’s their fault.
He is lifeless that is faultless.
What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there’s a touch of class involved.
men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one’s neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which occurs in life, and being a coward.
The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.
The truth of the matter is we don’t understand our women; we blame on them and it’s all our fault.
Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.
The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to others, does what in him lies to draw them into sin; and if they do not follow it, that is no mitigation of his fault.
People aren’t evil and people aren’t good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.
There are faults we would fain pardon.
It wasn’t his, it wasn’t my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.
There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today’s rap music. But I don’t think that’s the modern day rapper‘s fault.
This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man’s, because even if I was against the war, I didn’t do enough to stop it.
It’s not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don’t wake up thinking I’m so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.
Sexism is not the fault of women – kill your fathers, not your mothers
Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don’t be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can’t face that, better not write.
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.
Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
It is very easy to see the allure of alcohol to dull the prain and the temptation to punish myself for something that is not my fault. But he sobering truth is that if I step onto the path of self-destruction, I know I will never come back.
I don’t feel rivalry. I’m the least competitive person you’ll meet ever, to a fault.
Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.
In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
On recent events in a New York hotel room: What happened was not just inappropriate, it was more than that, it was a fault; a fault toward my wife, my children, my friends but also a fault toward the French people who placed in me their hope for change.
But don’t think that it’s a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It’s our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it’s cold outside. But it’s not the cold’s fault that it’s cold.
Each one of us has a particular virtue and faults that make the process of becoming like Jesus different.
We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
There is a fault common to all singers. When they’re among friends and are asked to sing they don’t want to, and when they’re not asked to sing they never stop.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense
Kindness and courage can repair time’s faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.
And I am a weapon of massive consumption
And it’s not my fault, it’s how I’m programmed to function.
And it’s not my fault, it’s how I’m programmed to function.
Unfortunately, the relations between the United Kingdom and Russia have not developed in the best possible way; however, it has never been our fault. It was not we who decided to discontinue relations with the United Kingdom; it was the UK who preferred to “freeze” our bilateral contacts in various fields.
sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding – the latter a very animated enjoyment.
Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.
Every year, it takes more brains to navigate this complicated world. More people are falling below what I call the ‘incompetence line’ through no fault of their own.
The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.
I went out with Robbie Williams and Liam Gallagher. I was accused of going out with many different people but that wasn’t my fault.
There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don’t have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they’re beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn’t mean that young white girls aren’t beautiful, because they are just as beautiful.
Faults are beauties, when survey’d by love.
After three elections, voters finally caught on that Obama’s faults were not in the stars, but in himself. They apparently tired of the usual distractions from a dismal presidential record.
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.
Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: “It’s their fault. I can’t change,” you stay stuck.
When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.
Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.
A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another’s by exposing his faults.
Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life – while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?
People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out “inner feelings” beneath the surface and expose any falsehood, and they think that it’s in their inner feelings that the truth lies. But I don’t think that’s the truth.
How easy it is to see your brother‘s faults, How hard it is to face your own.
Best men oft are moulded out of faults.
Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.
Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.
Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.
You can bear anything if it is not your fault.
Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.
Not. Your. Fault.” I nodded again, holding onto his words like they were redemption.
Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it’s those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trails, or fracture by a permanent, damning fault line.
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.
For he that but conceives a crime in thought,
Contracts the danger of an actual fault.
Contracts the danger of an actual fault.
There’s a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous…very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.
It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.
Only the great can afford to have great defects.
A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can’t really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!
To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime
Just think, if it weren’t for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.
Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
If you’re looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
I’ve slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with […] what I was happy with, and that’s my own fault. I’ve got no one else to blame about that stuff.
I think everything in your life’s your own damn fault and that’s my simple philosophy in that, and I think you’re broke because you want to be just like you‘re fat because you want to be or stupid because you want to be or unemployed, it must be because you want to be. Otherwise, it’d be different.
There’s an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That’s like a fault line.
There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.
I don’t like people who hide things. We’re not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot.
There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it’s your own fault.
Where love fails we espy all faults.
I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That’s not my family’s fault; it was my perception.
We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
I can look at every one of my faults, see they’re there, and go out and try to improve on it.
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.
Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone.
Let us look for the good rather than try to discover any hidden evil. We can easily find fault in others if that is what we are looking for.
It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the ones that we ought to be focusing our energy on defeating and not just wring our hands about the fact that it’s going to be difficult.
Black detraction will find faults where they are not.
I’m very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.
We have nothing to hide and it should be clear for the international community whose fault it was that the last closed European border was not open.
It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can’t really fault someone for saying, ‘What I’m doing right now works, so there’s no reason to change it.’
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don’t have to be the one at fault to be the one who’s sorry.
Don’t find fault, find a remedy.
there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
I’m very devoted to my kids – I’m completely blind to their faults.
I tolerate my faults but not at all other people’s.
An artist is his own fault.
I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.
Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it’s never that way.
Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I’ve got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There’s no future in it.
Bad as “independence” is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System – an admirable system if conducted in the public interest – is that too much power and control rests in the hands of people whose private interests are directly affected by the Federal Reserves‘ actions.
In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
We all have faults in life. Mine is that I sometimes rely on my athletic ability a little too much. When I’m having success and things are going good, that’s the lull that I fall into. It’s my worst enemy.
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all is the fear that it gestates the revolutionary impulse of our future.
When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.
Blessed are those who imitate us for they shall inherit our faults.
It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
The man in liberalism is usually going to be at fault.
A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other’s little failings.
The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don’t even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can’t really fault the kids for that.
The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting captures a certain resistance of paint, a prodding gesture of the brush, a speed and insistence in the face of mindless matter.
If you are looking for Christ in folks you will not be dwelling on their faults.
Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality.
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
No man is born without faults.
Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.
Everything people do that doesn’t work has to be somebody else’s fault. Next time you know, geezers’ll be suing the government for getting old and kids’ll be taking their mommies to court because they came out ugly.
Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one’s goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.
A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.
Faults are beauties in a lover’s eye.
He was the sort of guy who took a lot without giving her anything back The more he hurt her the more desperately she loved him. Life’s strange. Sometimes things happen almost as if we’re punishing ourselves for some fault that we can’t really identify.
It’s not my fault so much as my genius.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
What is most heartbreaking to me is the young women who don’t report [being raped] because they were drinking, and they feel like it was their fault that they were drinking. I mean, that is so common.
There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
You know, I analyze my faults and my weaknesses very carefully. I’m very hypercritical of myself.
It’s very personal in California to live within hours, and sometimes just a few miles, of earthquake faults when nuclear plants were being built.
I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
I know it’s my fault I should’ve gave more.
Believing there’s no God means I can’t really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That’s good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!
But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they’ve been brought there by no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
I do not think it is “selling America short” when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!
I tell you one thing – if you want peace of mind, don not fault with others.
Don’t be too severe in criticizing people’s faults; consider how much they can bear. Don’t be too lofty in enjoining virtue, so people may be able to follow.
You just got to be really logical when you’re a comedian – to a fault. Like a lawyer’s got to believe in the law.
I’ve seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can’t help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.
Enjoy your faults, that’s what separates you from the rest of the world.
People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won’t have anything to point out.
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.
You know, if people are not pacifists, it’s not their fault. It’s because society puts them in that spot. You’ve got to change it. You don’t just change a man – you’ve got to change his environment as you do it.
It is not someone’s fault if they succeeded, it is someone’s fault if they failed.
We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.
I’m competitive to a fault, so of course every week I’m just like, “I want to win, I want to do great.”
I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect.
In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the conduct of the whole, and to become distressed and depondent as a consequence. This would not happen if he had been prepared for this beforehand by exercises in peace.
My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.
When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don’t learn nothing, cause hey, it’s not your fault, it’s his fault, over there.
What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!
It’s not my fault being the biggest and the strongest. I don’t even exercise!
A man’s personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.
Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don’t know how anyone can find fault with that.
The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.
Apparently it’s my fault that the Titanic sank.
We lack an organization that will support fashion week. The five-day week shows a lack of vision and that we are not able to command respect. I am not saying it’s anyone’s fault in particular, it’s our fault. We have the highest concentration of brands, how can we accommodate everyone in four or five days?
This is my fault. Mine. Making her think I’d be here for her.
Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
I don’t wish anybody ill, I really don’t. I’ve got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or… it’s a waste of time.
We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. False religions will find fault with other religions; they will say that theirs is the only valid religion and their prophet is the only saviour. But a true religion will feel that all the prophets are saviours of mankind.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.
A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
My freedom from hatred – I would even claim for myself individually, my love – for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.
We all have faults.
If I see a certain faults in people, I know there will be more faults in me as well. I’d rather focus on how I should work on my faults.
The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one’s faults can come from having one’s pride humiliated.
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say “They told me to do it! It’s their fault, not mine.” The freedom, God help us, to say “I was only following orders.”-World War Z
It’s not my fault everybody wants me
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
Given Loughner’s obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!
The worst of our faults is our interest in other people’s faults.
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.
O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.
When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
I come from a long line of women who like shoes to a fault.
The liberals think government exists to fix what’s wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there’s nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won’t cure.
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it’s not my fault, if I’ve done nothing wrong, I’m not charged with manslaughter, he’s gonna die, because he’s on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy.
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it– it was the black kitten’s fault entirely.
I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
I’m not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
When it comes to our money and work lives, most of us have had our challenges, our valleys. Most of us have a couple of files in our head. One, I name “It was my own damn fault.” And the other one I name, “I don’t know how I will ever forgive those bastards.”
This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
There are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around them… then one can only imagine the faults they must see in themselves.
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.
If I can let people see a Seungri without any faults for once, then everything I do after that will be a perfect Seungri.
The question, ‘Why does she stay?’ is code for some people for, ‘It’s her fault for staying,’ as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us.
Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause
I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.
talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
We remain silent because we’ve taken on a responsibility and/or shame that was never ours to carry. Forgive yourself for things that were not your fault. Bad decisions, mistaken trust, physical weakness, or too much fear to act do not make an assault on you or someone you care about your fault. Ever.
I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.
Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience.
Those who influenced me the most are not those who pointed out all my faults, but those who knew God was bigger than my shortcomings. Those who influenced me the most didn’t just point a finger, they held out a helping hand.
And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they’d settled on.
If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it is by… chance that I arrive at the truth, and I shall still be at fault…. In this incorrect use of free will may be found the privation which constitutes the essence of error.
The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend’s dinner table … As long as water and coffee and jelly exist, a certain percentage of each will necessarily be overturned upon a like number of snowy white tablecloths. Usually the tragedy is really no one’s fault.
We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.
Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield…it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world’s will, while the strong obey only their own.
Remember, it is never the knife‘s fault.
None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.
The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith.
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.
I’m very conscious I’ve got a lot of faults, the same as everyone, and I have done plenty of things wrong.
Criticism is good because it helps finding the faults in me.
Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them
Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
People are very narcissistic. It’s not all their fault. We live in a society where there is a magazine for you, a channel for you, a perfume for you.
It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.
If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I’m close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I’m bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.
I’m probably the most honest person you’ll ever meet – to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I’m sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven‘t retained that information.
The only fault’s with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!
I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I’m confessing another fault: pride. I don’t want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned
No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family.
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
Let us look at our own faults, and not other people’s. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.
This is not my fault! Any ideas?” “You don’t have a white flag, do you?
How am I different than anyone else? I’m a human being, and I have my faults, too.
I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human
I think there’s a lack of understanding which is partly our fault as scientists and physicians in not communicating well enough with the public. But there’s a lack of understanding of how important biomedical research is.
In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.
There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
Everything is the director‘s fault – you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.
I learned from my mistakes, I was able to accept the things that were my fault and to be able to grow from that. You have to be able to see growth from your experiences and I’ve done that.
Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
I think people act on their emotions without thinking on them and one of our biggest faults as humans is our instinct to do that. I know I’ve done it. I’m trying to learn how to control that.
Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them
Blush at your faults.
I could not ask forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
You mean nothing to no one but that’s nobody’s fault…
Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
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.
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault.
I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, ‘It’s all your fault.’ Your reaction is, ‘It’s not my fault.’ But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.
To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one’s friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.
My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women
Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.
O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; ‘tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
People are just self-centered-it’s all about them. And we’re telling people it’s okay to be ‘all about you’ because you’re a victim and it’s not your fault. That’s why society has gotten more and more belligerent and selfish.
I was angry at God until I came to understand that it isn’t God’s fault when people mistreat me. I still have my doubts at times, but I try to remember that God has given them the same free will that He’s given me.
Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
Disappointments that aren’t a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don’t work for our own good.
Glad-tidings to he who knows his own faults more than other people know it.
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch‘d.
Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
Of course, I love you,’ the flower said to him. ‘If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility.
So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton‘s Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.
It’s your fault. I was defending you!” I blurted. He paused. “In protecting my honor, you exposed months of work. I should be flattered?
There is no end to one’s faults. To think of them makes one humble.
There are no chains like hate…dwelling on your brother‘s faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.
Mistakes remember’d are not faults forgot.
One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
Never find fault with the absent.
I was born in 1947, and my generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.
Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.
I was taught you don’t tell your secrets to strangers – certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness, failure. My generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.
There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
Focus on remedies, not faults.
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
I’m a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I’ve been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn’t walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn’t walking the walk.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.
Jesus says that those who live by God’s forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others’ faults against them.
In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.
I’m going to show you my faults, I’m going to show you my insecurities, I’m going to be real.
I’m a big enough lad now to know that I should just get over it and do what I have to do, by getting out on the training pitch and correcting the faults.
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]
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.
Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.
A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it’s not your fault.
Press not a falling man too far; ’tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
Not you, correct him.
His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
Not you, correct him.
To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I’m not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.
We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.
A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don’t know all their faults and misgivings, is a very strong influence.
“She’s a very charming and delightful creature,” quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; “and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don’t like me.”
A woman should say: ‘Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?’ If he does, then it’s the wife’s fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart
Not that it was Twiggy’s fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.
Whatever my faults, I have some principles.
If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We’re not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We’re meant to be this way. It’s not our fault, it’s just who we are.
Do not romanticize the poor…We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
It was a nice bit of blackmail that kept him off my back, but he refused to take the message that I wasn’t going to work for him. ’Course, that might be my fault…since I seemed unable to say no when he waved enough money at me.
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them
My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it’s not her fault she’s so off the rails.
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
If we strive to strengthen our body now; to overcome our faults; to cultivate new virtues; the Sun of our next life will rise under much more auspicious conditions than those under which we now live, and thus we may truly rule our stars and master our fate.
All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.
We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.
When it’s your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.
There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.
Unfortunately, people like to remember me only for my faults.
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.
And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts; theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.
You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You’re only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.
Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never in this world going to be stuff full.
England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
I have many unrecognized talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition.
I had an arranged marriage, and learnt you have to persevere and remember we are all human and all have faults. Obviously my husband Abdal has more faults than I do!
It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
Now when I bore people at a party they think it’s their fault.
I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.
The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.
I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it.
Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good.
People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It’s isn’t the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don’t think.
There’s a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There’s no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.
If I loved you, well that’s my fault
Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.
As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone
A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.
It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other’s works more readily than we do in our own.
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.
Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.
I don’t think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it’s just as much the players’ fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.
Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.
Joie est mon caractere, C’est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C’est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, ‘Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau ‘Tis the fault of Rousseau.] – Gavroche
There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.
The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit.
If my team isn’t motivated, it’s my fault. I can’t consider myself the best of the best until my team is able to get out of the first round.
