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“The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank.”

Ifs Want Littles Persons President Economy Influence Effects Blame Credit Cycles Reserves Federal Reserve

Author:Robert Fogel

“Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.”

Ifs Has Beens Sometimes Seems Government Might Blame Might Have Been Aristocracy

Author:Anatole Broyard

“The worst kind of novel is one that blames other people for the racial problem in order to make the reader feel good about himself. As if it's only rich white people or Republicans or conservatives who have this disease.”

People Ifs Feels Kind Problem Order White Novel Rich Worst Reader Republican Disease Blame Feel Good

Author:George Pelecanos

“You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it. It's an easy way to escape responsibility."”

Ifs Men World Way Made Easy Can Do Responsibility Devil Blame Hey Easy Way Blame Me Don't Blame Me

Author:Ice Cube

“Herman Cain answered the Wall Street protesters, and he had a message for these protesters. He said, 'If you don't have a job, if you're not rich, don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the banks, blame yourself.' And a nation of out of work teabaggers said, 'Yeah! Hey, wait a minute.'”

Ifs Said Jobs Nations Waiting Rich Streets Minutes Wall Messages Yeah Blame Hey Cain

Author:Bill Maher

“I really try as hard as I can on the show. If people can't see my face, if they can't see my sweat beads or at least that I'm struggling, that I'm not just pretending or going through the motions, then who can blame them for thinking that it's some kind of ridiculous piss-take?”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Kind I Can Hard Shows Faces Struggle Blame Ridiculous Pretending Sweat Beads

Author:John Maus

“If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.”

Ifs Heart Self Causes Differences Blame Fortune Charm Yield

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows War Failing Ought Deserve Blame Administration If I Could Blame Me

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.”

Ifs Clear Blame Majority Israel France Britain Iran Resolution Middle East Crystals Earthquakes Veto

Author:Amos Oz

“... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?”

“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.”

Ifs Believe Ideas Wisdom Motivational Business Mines Products Blame Faults Don't Believe Bored Presentation New Products

Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“If you are passed out drunk or if there is a gun to your head, it is the same crime. It is a crime where there is not consent. It is a felony. And we need to start making sure victims understand that, so they don't do the self blame.”

Ifs Needs Self Reality Community Justice Violence Crime Gun Victim Blame Human Rights Drunk Consent Felony

Author:Claire McCaskill

“If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part of their job. So it's vanity but it's also not in a lot of cases. It's being professional.”

Ifs Looks Jobs Cases Like You Depends Blame Caring Profession Vanity

Author:James Franco

“Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.”

Ifs Made Remember Accepting Progress Judgment Blame Harm Swear Hinder Constancy If Then

Book:The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings

Source: The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings

“They told us to buy duct tape and portable radios so that if the world does end, we can all listen to Rush Limbaugh blame it on Clinton.”

Ifs World Doe Ends Blame Clinton Radio Tape Duct Tape

Author:Bill Maher

“If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.”

Ifs May Life Is Answers Blame Smooth

Author:Zig Ziglar

“[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us, if we don't find any sympathy or pleasure, for example, in a modern painting, are likely to blame our own ignorance of the history and theory of painting. But nobody pretends to like a bad comic strip. Such harshness is necessary for any real truth to surface, I think, and for art to really contribute anything to life. Though I don't know. I could be wrong.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Art Real Lasts Pleasure Modern Havens Honesty Example Ignorance Painting Theory Reader Blame Response Surface Genuine Comic Comic Strips Harshness Real Truth

Author:Chris Ware

“If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.”

Ifs Mind Feelings Blame Sarcasm Sarcastic When Things Go Wrong Funny Sarcastic Sarcastic One Liners Blame Someone Dark Sarcasm

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“Yes I usually make my kids eat their veggie chops and watch my concerts in dead silence. If they ask to watch spongebob squarepants I usually do something volatile like make them eat a yellow sponge with googly eyes on it. I hit them quite a bit, but then again I blame the condom manufacturing government for forcing me to birth them.”

Ifs Government Eye Kids Asks Bits Silence Watches Birth Blame Concerts Yellow Manufacturing Sponges Condom Spongebob Squarepants

Author:Thom Yorke

“The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.”

Ifs Men World Way Trying Soul Spirit Evil Heaven Sin This World Late Solutions Devil Blame My Soul Too Late Good Man Absolution

Author:Jon Bon Jovi

“Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.”

Ifs Men Seems Fall Passion Wish Blame Faults Philosopher Vices Pious

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.”

Ifs Want Mind Failing Blame Excuse What You Want Hook Hinder Doing What You Want Excuse You

Author:Benjamin Carson

“If you read the good reviews you gotta read the bad reviews. I kind of think of it as like being a quarterback: you get way too much blame when it's bad and way too much credit when it's good.”

Ifs Thinking Way Kind Too Much Blame Credit Reviews Quarterback Bad Reviews

Author:David Fincher

“Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.”

Ifs Years Parent Blame Angry Idiot Old You

Author:John Waters

“We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.”

Ifs Language Blame Folly English Language Englishmen

Book:Gandhis India: Unity in Diversity

Source: Gandhis India: Unity in Diversity

“I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.”

Ifs Want Long Names Mines Willing Succeed Blame Credit Drains

Author:Bill Watterson

“Lead, don't drive. And give credit. Don't blame. If an officer on your team suggested something and it worked well, give them credit. If it doesn't work well, you take the blame because you made the decision.”

Ifs Giving Wells Made Decision Team Blame Credit Officers

Author:John Wooden

“Scientists blame the audience for being too stupid, shallow, or lazy to understand. There has been a fascinating debate in the blogosphere lately about communicating science to the public, and it's clear that most scientists just don't get it. They can't be bothered to talk to real people. Nobody will care about your issues if the price they have to pay is listening to a long lecture from Morton the science bug.”

People Ifs Long Has Beens Real Care Pay Audience Issues Clear Stupid Listening Scientist Blame Communicate Debate Lazy Fascinating Shallow Bugs Lectures Bothered

Author:Mark Powell

“If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because we refuse to understand that it is in reality a good thing.”

Ifs Self Reality Evil Blame Good Things Refuse Pity Self Pity Asceticism

Book:Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

Source: Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

“If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.”

Ifs Inspirational Soul Reason Christian Religious Blame Temptation Your Soul Unexpected Orthodox Corrections

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Wanted School Father Women Change Inspiring Teacher Taught Brother Inspirational Life Blame Faults Bad Ass Your Brother

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“It's not quite the Tom Jones show, but yes, I've had undergarments. If I get a bra chucked on stage I'll hold it up so the audience can decide what to think. And I'll usually blame a guy for doing it.”

Ifs Thinking Shows Guy Audience Stage Blame Toms Bras Undergarments

Author:Michael Bolton

“If you’re unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don’t blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to power, wealth, and status. Then watch what happens.”

Ifs Happens Opportunity Wealth Watches Amount Equal Blame Access Unhappy

Author:Christopher Ryan

“But if you do, then it's a high class problem to have. And if you do, you're the architect of that problem. There's no one else to blame but yourself. You've kept doing the same kinds of movies and that's what they want to see.”

Ifs Want Kind Problem Class Blame Architect High Class

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“The Germans tend to like to blame the Nazi experience on one man who can be scapegoated. If you pile all the blame onto him, you exonerate the German masses from any responsibility.”

Ifs Men Responsibility Mass Blame One Man Nazi

Author:Gavriel David Rosenfeld

“There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I have many colleagues where you try to hang out with them and they make you feel bad for not knowing what they know. If that's how you interact with people, why would anyone want to be that.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Feels Trying Feelings Knowing Movement Intellectual Blame Hanging Out Not Knowing Colleagues

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.”

Ifs Men Doe Serious Blame Wine Harm

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand.”

Ifs Knows Way Feels Kind Doe Would Be Running Wanted Faces Games Losing Mouths Blame Unsure Always Running Personal Attacks Losing A Game

Author:Carl Crawford

“You can't grow and learn if your focus is on finding someone else to blame instead of looking at your own shortcomings.”

Ifs Grows Focus Findings Blame Shortcomings Finding Someone

Book:How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward

Source: How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward

“When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship of being attacked regularly, and making apologies for your abuser. It actually affects Christians living in Islamic circumstances more, and one Palestinian Christian spoke about that problem of needing to defend Islam in order to protect yourself.”

Ifs Problem Christian Order Circumstances Protect Abuse Blame Response Islam Characteristics Islamic Spokes Apology Locked Palestinian Abusers Protect Yourself

Author:Mark Durie

“Fail is a verb not a noun, most people think that when they fail, they become a noun and call themselves failures. People have to learn from their mistakes just as children learn to ride bicycles by falling off bicycles. Mistakes can be priceless if we are willing to learn from them because the price to becoming rich is the willingness to make mistakes and learn from them without blaming or justifying”

People Ifs Thinking Children Fall Mistake Rich Failing Willing Becoming Blame Making Mistakes Willingness Bicycle Priceless Verbs Nouns Falling Off Willing To Learn

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I'm convinced that a lot of people simply don't know what's available out there and how it is possible to find a job and work your way up if you are willing to accept responsibility for your life. I know what it's like to be on the bottom. I've been broke. I've been fired seven times from jobs. And I don't even have a college degree. But I didn't blame anyone else for my problems. I knew that if I didn't try to solve them on my own or with the help of friends or family members, no one else was going to take care of me.”

“If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.”

Ifs Self Remember Blame Fingers Mess Pointing Pointing Fingers

Author:Bernie Mac

“If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight.”

Ifs Strong Lonely Weight Blame Atheist Punching Downtrodden

Author:Tom Flynn

“Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.”

Ifs Please One Day Cost Deserve Blame Busy Dear Rude Trifles

Book:The Practice of the Presence of God

Source: The Practice of the Presence of God

“At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I'm not satisfied with how I look on the runway.”

Ifs Feels Looks Ends Blame Satisfied The End Of The Day Runway

Author:Chanel Iman

“If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage.”

People Ifs Way Stupid Blame Damage Atoms

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“Tom Walls' buddies remain an isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame cranky sociopaths for the problems besetting society. If it weren't for brown-nosing evil firebrands, he would have no friends. The ideas backing up his rejoinders are extremely superficial and sex-crazed.”

Ifs Ideas Problem Evil Social Sex Economic Wall Mass Stress Blame Following Brown Minorities Isolated Toms Superficial Buddy Sociopath No Friends Cranky Backing Up

Author:Linda Chavez

“If I were to direct an episode, then there would be no one for me to blame, and that's not any fun. It's more about sitting in the back seat and trying to drive.”

Ifs Trying Would Be Fun Sitting Direct Blame Seats Episodes One For Me

Author:Timothy Olyphant

“You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.”

Ifs Pay Easier Laughter Jokes Blame Dues Sense Of Humor Packs Plague

Author:Lenny Bruce

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