“It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable.” GivingYearsIdeasLastsLeftSleepBreakSecurityIllusionBlameGirlfriendLast YearLove RelationshipOpiumSoma Author:Billy Corgan
“What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!” IfsWorldYearsHas BeensDifferentDoneWould BeLastsEvilGoneDoorsMankindBearsThousandSixDevilVictimBlameCommittedCreditThousand YearsObligedMisguidedScoundrelsScapegoat Book:Zoe: The History of Two Lives Source: Zoe: The History of Two Lives
“... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.” KindLastsValuesPoliticsSocialFamilyPovertyCrimeYouthBuildingCrisisBlameBreakdownDarwinismFamily ValuesSocial Darwinism Author:Stephanie Coontz
“[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.” IfsThinkingKnowsArtRealLastsPleasureModernHavensHonestyExampleIgnorancePaintingTheoryReaderBlameResponseSurfaceGenuineComicComic StripsHarshnessReal Truth Author:Chris Ware
“No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me... I alone am to blame, in perhaps expecting too much of its prowess and valor... could I have foreseen that the attack on the last day would fail, I should certainly have tried some other course... but I do not know what better course I could have pursued.” KnowsShouldLastsCoursesToo MuchFailingArmyBlameAccomplishExpectingPursuedValorLast DayProwessForeseenExpecting Too Much Author:Robert E. Lee
“New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the Reverend Ted Haggard, was outed for drugs and extramarital gay sex with a male prostitute. Or as Fox News reported it, 'John Kerry hates our troops'.” LastsAmericaHateSexLeaderWeekGayDrugNewsDevilBlameMalesTroopsFoxesScrewsEvangelicalScrew UpsJohn KerryFox NewsOur TroopsReverendsHaggard Author:Bill Maher
“You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election.” LastsSocialEnvironmentSecurityRepublicanElectionBlameSpendingAdministrationSocial SecurityDeficitSurplus Author:William J. Clinton
“In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "No lie will last forever." We have to work at removing lies from our own hearts. And on the national level, we do this not because we blame our country, but because we love it.” HeartCountryLastsLyingLevelsForeverKingsBlameOur CountryDrsLutherDr Martin Luther King Author:Marianne Williamson
“Where would the Republican Party being without talk radio the last 25 years? And yet who now is enemy number one? Talk radio! I don't know what I did to Michael Gerson, but he's back again in the Washington Post blaming everything [Donald] Trump on me.” KnowsYearsLastsPartyNumbersEnemyTrumpRepublicanBlameRadioPostsRepublican PartyBack AgainTalk Radio Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We are watching people who've been educated in the public school system and in colleges for the last 25 or 30 years become adults. They're getting jobs as TV commentators and journalists and writers and editors and producers in the media. And we're simply seeing the product of what they've been taught. And they so hate what they've been told is America's history and past that they want everybody to know they disagree with it and they've got nothing to do with it, and they had nothing to do with it, and don't blame them.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsSchoolJobsLastsAmericaPastHateSeeingMediaTaughtCollegeTvsProductsAdultsBlameProducersEducatedJournalistEditorsDisagreePublic SchoolCommentatorsSchool System Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.” Has BeensLastsSimpleAnswersWeekDirectBlameKillingKillersRiot Author:Dan Quayle
“What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?” MenYearsDoeStoriesLastsHouseLeadershipWhiteResponsibilityForeverFourMissingOfficeYears AgoBlameAdministrationBarackWhite HouseFour YearsGetting OldShifting Author:Paul Ryan
“Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.” IfsYearsHumansHeartMaySoulFeelingsEarthLastsSufferingWaitingSidesDarkMinesHeroCreaturesAngelAnd LoveBlameDepthShelterHuman HeartFrozenMurdererLoftyReviveConvictsBrothers KaramazovLive And Love Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes.” LastsStrangeGrewDrinkTasteEatingGrew UpBlameBritishSmellLondonFleshMonstersScareFreakClownFireworksSadieFlesh Eating Author:Rick Riordan
“Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.” LastsDecisionResponsibilityBlamePositivityExcuseTaking ResponsibilityLet It GoPersonal ResponsibilityNo ExcusesBad DecisionBlaming Others Author:Deepak Chopra
“Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.” ThinkingLastsNightOpinionMorningPraiseBlame Author:Alexander Pope
“This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.” MenChristianLastsSufferingSinBreathsBlameTemptationOrthodoxGreat WorkOrthodox Christian Author:Anthony the Great
“An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.” LastsShareMinutesBlameExpertsLast MinuteFunny Business Author:Sam Ewing
“I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance deeper into the vale of years, I live with constantly increasing gusto and excitement. I am sure it all means something; in the last analysis, I am an optimist because I believe in God. Those who have no faith are quite naturally pessimists and I do not blame them.” LifeYearsBelieveMeanLastsNightBeliefI BelieveInterestingBlameDeeperI Believe InAnalysisExcitementDullDaily LifeBelieve In GodOptimistJoyousDay And NightPessimistI Believe In GodGustoSad Day Author:William Lyon Phelps