There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.
~By Neil Schon ~
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
~By Simone Weil ~
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
~By Michael Caine ~
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
~By Lu Xun ~
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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.
~By John Warnock ~
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
~By William Shakespeare ~
We didn't score any runs today. That's not my fault.
~By Danny Bautista ~
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.
~By Neil Cavuto ~
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.
~By James Truslow Adams ~
I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.
~By Ken Burns ~
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
~By George Eliot ~
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.
~By Jacques Delors ~
It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
~By Will Cuppy ~
You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
~By Preston Sturges ~
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
~By Plutarch ~
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
~By Herman Hesse ~
In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.
~By Andrew Eldritch ~
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.
~By Geoffrey Boycott ~
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
~By James F. Cooper ~
Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn't think it was my job to be considerate to other people.
~By Ron Moody ~
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
~By Yogi Berra ~
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.
~By Angelo Scola ~
And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
Dance must have a precision without fault.
~By Arielle Dombasle ~
I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
~By Desmond Tutu ~
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
~By Edward de Bono ~
Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.
~By Joy Page ~
I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one.
~By Mike Rutherford ~
We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.
~By Billy Barty ~
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.
~By Richard Armour ~
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
~By T. E. Lawrence ~
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.
~By Jean Paul ~
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Something goes wrong, I yell at them -"Fix it"- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
~By Bill Parcells ~
The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
~By Solomon Ibn Gabirol ~
It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It's not their fault, but I couldn't do that any longer.
~By Brian Welch ~
Focus on remedies, not faults.
~By Jack Nicklaus ~
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
~By Francis Picabia ~
What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
~By Rod Stewart ~
As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.
~By Ron Kind ~
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
~By Ramsey Clark ~
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
~By Frank Langella ~
All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?
~By Frank Harris ~
Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.
~By Howard Staunton ~
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.
~By Katie Price ~
Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.
~By Harriet Rosenstein ~
Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
~By Chevy Chase ~
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.
~By Alfred Jodl ~
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
~By Antisthenes ~
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
~By John Mortimer ~
I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
~By Kate Smith ~
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
~By William Collins ~
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
~By John Mellencamp ~
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
Faultless to a fault.
~By Robert Browning ~
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.
~By Barbara Cartland ~
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
We changed every lead in our whole system, and to this day we still don't really know why it did it. We think wires were touching and faulting. That was it really, but it didn't make it any easier.
~By Kelly Jones ~
Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.
~By Sara Gilbert ~
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
~By Walt Whitman ~
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
~By Tecumseh ~
I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine.
~By David Kay ~
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
~By Francois Fenelon ~
I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.
~By Kristen Bell ~
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
~By Louis Nizer ~
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
~By Ovid ~
But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.
~By Timothy Murphy ~
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
~By Henry Ford ~
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.
~By Ferdinand Mount ~
People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
~By Kristin Scott Thomas ~
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
~By e. e. cummings ~
A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.
~By Delia Smith ~
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.
~By Kelly Millar ~
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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.
~By Herman Melville ~
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
~By Charles Kingsley ~
It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
~By Kary Mullis ~
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
~By Bernard Berenson ~
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