Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.
Luckily, due to my own ego, probably, I'm always quicker to blame other people.
Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table. ' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.
Don't blame others when something goes wrong. Don't blame yourself endlessly, either. Just find ways to do it differently next time.
The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.
We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.
You can't blame a victim for being under the influence when there is a violent act [happening to them]. These are two separate things.
Any blaming that Russia could have been interfering in domestic affairs of the United States is slander. And it has no evidence at all.
As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.
Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.
I love being backstage, or doing littler things like Blame Canada.
When you succeed you have a million people to thank, but when you fail there is only one person to blame.
No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.
Blaming guns for murder is like blaming forks for obesity.
I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.
Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.