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“Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.”

Way Force Responsibility Behavior Blame Avoiding

Author:James Redfield

“In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.”

Source: The lightning thief

“Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.”

Ifs Should Force Plans Kings Blame Woods

Book:The Wandering Fire: Book Two of the The Fionavar Tapestry

Source: The Wandering Fire: Book Two of the The Fionavar Tapestry

“Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.”

Book Ends Force Numbers Gone Blame Coming Out Flash Flood Flash Floods

Author:Dorothy Parker

“Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person." "That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said." "All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it." "But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.”

Knows Want Giving Persons Said I Can Play Games Left Force Situation Emotional Depends Blame Truest Blame Me

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.”

Ifs World Way Done Force Blood Destruction Victim Blame Introducing Trust Me Erase Olaf

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver”

Force Behavior Harder Blame

Book:The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life

Source: The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life

“There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on.”

Force Blame Disappointment Faster External Forces

Author:Christian Finnegan

“Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.”

Ifs Want Force Marriage Blame Deceiving Women Want

Book:The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857

Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857

“Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.”

May Self Sometimes Shows Suffering Force Shapes Blame Pity Loving Life Self Pity

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen