“Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake and attentive during his sermons. Beecher replied that he always had a man watch for sleepers, with instructions, as soon as he saw anyone start nodding or dozing, to hasten to the pulpit and wake up the preacher. Aren't you and I usually less sensible? Would we not be inclined to have the watcher wake up not ourselves but the fellows caught sleeping? In other words, aren't we disposed always to blame others?” MenStoriesYoungSleepWatchesSawsWake UpFellowsBlameCaughtWideAwakeSensibleInstructionPreacherSermonsCongregationPulpitWatchersSleeping InNoddingSleepersWide AwakeDozing Author:B. C. Forbes
“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.” IfsGovernmentEyeKidsAsksBitsSilenceWatchesBirthBlameConcertsYellowManufacturingSpongesCondomSpongebob Squarepants Author:Thom Yorke
“It's up to the parents to watch their kids and make sure their kids aren't doing any crazy drugs. I always blame the parents. When their kids are doing something crazy, I blame the parents.” KidsParentWatchesCrazyDrugBlame Author:Juicy J
“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.” IfsHappensOpportunityWealthWatchesAmountEqualBlameAccessUnhappy Author:Christopher Ryan
“We see something change in our climate and we blame ourselves ... I don't think we understand what happens. We can watch it happen on the (climate) models, we know it happens, but we don't know for sure how it happens.” ThinkingKnowsHappensWatchesModelsBlameClimateThings Change Author:Roy Spencer
“I was speaking within the confines of this specific event, the Brexit vote. The opponents are gonna blame everything that happens on the vote, and they're gonna have the media with them for the most part. It's gonna be a great thing to watch, lesson-wise.” HappensWatchesWiseMediaEventsLessonsVoteBlameGreat ThingsOpponents Author:Rush Limbaugh
“And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to you to make you hear as I want you to hear me.” WayWantLongUsedSufferingSportsDarkWatchesSadnessMinesWallSolitudeBlameClimbsI Want YouLong WayIvyDampFleeing Book:The Poetry of Pablo Neruda Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
“We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back from the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see it's like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also, watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past.” ThinkingKindMeanIdeasPastFormWaitingSituationWatchesCreativeChangedFlowBlameForgivingNotesNotionSentencesAbandonMelodyReverse Author:Alan Watts
“Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?” SelfAmericaYoungCultureSportsWatchesBlameAthleteDisgraceMillionaireObscurityFlingTysonSelf DestructYoung Athletes Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I don't watch football anymore, I gave that up. I got tired of the interviews after the games, because the winning players always give credit to God, and the losers blame themselves. You know, just once I'd like to hear a player say, 'Yeah, we were in the game, until Jesus made me fumble. He hates our team.'” KnowsGivingMadeHateGamesJesusWinningWatchesPlayerTeamFootballYeahBlameTiredCreditInterviewsLoser Author:Jeff Stilson
“Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.” PeopleIfsWatchesAdviceAuthorityBlameRejectsAccountabilityGood Advice Author:Rick Warren