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“Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history. Is it our fault? Again, maybe. The correlation of increasing warmth with increasing carbon dioxide concentrations is particularly weak; that with solar energy and with ocean movements is much stronger.”

“The way Jacques Brel writes a story, getting into the character, bringing out all his faults and qualities in the same song.... Not that I could ever write in such an epic way, but it really is a different way to go about writing lyrics...and I find that quite inspiring.”

Way Writing Different Character Stories Song Quality Faults Different Ways Songwriting Epic

Author:Zach Condon

“Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.”

People Knows Earth Lines Depression Pressure Faults Illness Mental Illness Splits Sooner Or Later Under Pressure

Book:Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel

Source: Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel

“Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.”

Looks Done Left Faults Undone Omission

Author:Gautama Buddha

“There are no chains like hate...dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.”

Ends Hate Journey Brother Faults Chains Dwelling Your Brother

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.”

World Persons Ends Sometimes Matter Enough Simple Cases Relationship Failure Faults Relationships Ending

Author:Ashly Lorenzana

“It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.”

Has Beens America Energy Party Effort Plans Weak Faults Democrat Congress Tea Global Warming Infrastructure Recessions Tea Party

Author:Jeff Goodell

“Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.”

“Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.”

Secret Seeing Illusion Blind Faults True Love Corners Glimpse Twists Around The Corner Overlooking Around The Bend

Author:Vera Nazarian

“A man asked Muhammad what was the mark whereby he might know the reality of his faith. Muhammad said, 'If thou derive pleasure from the good which thou hast performed and thou be grieved for the evil which thou hast committed, thou art a true believer.' The man said. 'In what doth a fault really consist' Muhammad said, 'when action pricketh thy conscience, forsake it.'”

Ifs Knows Men Art Said Reality Might Action Evil Pleasure He Man Conscience Mark Faults Committed Believer Muhammad Forsake True Believer

Author:Muhammad

“At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.”

People Needs Stills Reality Community Majority Faults Sensitive Fierce Severe Affliction Deprivation

Author:Ibrahim Babangida

“There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.”

Want Common Music Singing Faults Singers

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret.”

Children Feelings Courses Fear Hurt Memories Half Break Wife Humour Ready Regret Daughter Guilt Faults Ill Stranger Bars Usual Weekend Resentment Inconvenience Pubs Repressed Tainted

Book:The Children of Men

Source: The Children of Men

“Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.”

Wisdom Remember Fun Forgiveness Faults Poor Richard Great Ones

Book:Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

“From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance?”

Ifs Writing Body Romance Science Example Faults Employed Acid Inventing Composing Writing History

Book:The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method

Source: The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method

“There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. . . . I have yet to find a person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.”

Giving Believe Persons Spirit I Believe Effort Greater Ambition Criticism Praise Management Faults I Believe In Superiors Stations Criticize Anxious Approval Incentives Exalted

Author:Charles R. Schwab

“Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears.”

Eye Heaven Fear Peace Sin Feet Cry Tears News Mercy Faults Cease His Eyes Wet Flood Vengeance Prince Of Peace Wet Eyes

Author:Phineas Fletcher

“There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.”

People Said Done Political Politics Faults

Author:Dante Alighieri

“When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.”

Men Secret He Man Faults Secrecy

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist.”

Ifs Art Ideas Character Artist Expression Faults Dull Ballet Monotonous

Author:Jean-Georges Noverre

“The biggest challenge is to convince a woman that it's not her fault. My daughter is 25; my stepdaughter is 22. As a mother, I want them to know that if a boyfriend is abusive, you cannot ignore it ?- 'Oh, he's been drinking,' or 'He had a bad day.' There is no excuse for a man hitting a woman. Ever.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Mother Challenges Violence Daughter Faults Drinking Excuse Convince My Daughter Hitting Domestic Violence Bad Day No Excuses Abusive Had A Bad Day Stepdaughters

Author:Debbie Stabenow

“Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.”

Ifs Giving Should Littles Praise Faults Dues Occasions Aviation Officers Captains Hereafter

Book:The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Private as Well as His Official and Scientific Correspondence, and Numerous Letters and Documents Now for the First Time Printed, with Many Others Not Included in Any Former Collection, Also, the Unmutilated and Correct Version of His Autobiography

Source: The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Private as Well as His Official and Scientific Correspondence, and Numerous Letters and Documents Now for the First Time Printed, with Many Others Not Included in Any Former Collection, Also, the Unmutilated and Correct Version of His Autobiography

“The Hideout is here to help you get through today and tomorrow. Be brave. It's not your fault. Remember, the road will get smoother and there is always hope that tomorrow will be better.”

Helping Today Remember Violence Tomorrow Brave Faults Be Brave Domestic Violence Today And Tomorrow Tomorrow Will Be Better

Author:Naomi Wilkinson

“He knows his own faults, but also knows his qualities.”

Knows Life Inspiration Quality Faults Quality Of Life

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one's neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which occurs in life, and being a coward.”

Thinking Life Doe Feelings Rights Deserve Faults Oneself Following Neighbor Graves Guilty Coward Good And Bad Paralyzed Feeling Guilty

Book:Warrior of the Light -

Source: Warrior of the Light -

“Despite the obvious fault in the universe, it cannot be used as an excuse for not trying to be your best self. Instead, use unfairness as a starting point to be sure that your actions are the best you can muster, and find peace in navigating your time here with grace and humor whenever possible.”

Trying Self Use Action Used Universe Grace Faults Starting Obvious Excuse Despite Finding Peace Starting Point Unfairness Best Self Muster Be Your Best

Author:Valerie Plame

“I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. Everyone needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God’s saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings.”

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him in adoration and in contemplation that is full of faith and ready to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. May our adoration never cease”

Source: Letters to My Brother Priests

“If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.”

Ifs Would Be Turns Leadership Mines Faults Command Seagull

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a fault and boded no ill but thought well enough of themselves to repeat their presences.”

Wells Matter Enough Night Seasons Faults Ill Peaceful Repeats

Author:William H. Gass

“If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.”

Ifs Life Parent Mistake Education Faults Mess

Author:Bill Gates

“Its very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.”

Knows World Doe Difficult Church Know How Faults Determine Relate Abandoned

Author:Angelo Scola

“The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe that defeat is just a temporary setback or a challenge, that its causes are just confined to this one case.”

“If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.”

Ifs Humans Body Lying Faults Disgusting Human Body

Author:Lenny Bruce

“I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.”

Ifs Trying My Own Succeed Understood Faults

Author:Dmitri Shostakovich

“Find fault with thyself rather than with others.”

Author:Ieyasu Tokugawa

“In the Muslim world, this notion that somehow everything is the fault of the Israelis lacks balance - because there's two sides to every question. That doesn't mean that sometimes one side has done something wrong and should not be condemned. But it does mean there's always two sides to an issue. I say the same thing to my Jewish friends, which is you have to see the perspective of the Palestinians. Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen.”

World Should Mean Doe Two Sometimes Done Happens Eye Sides Issues Perspective Balance Empathy Faults Notion Shoes Palestinian Up To You Two Sides Muslim World Jewish Friends

Author:Barack Obama

“Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.”

Firsts Two New York Faults Insulting Traveller Second Place

Book:North America

Source: North America

“All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.”

Ifs Music Faults Singers

Author:Horace

“It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.”

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.”

Play Happiness Faults Imperfect Leaving Me Suggesting

Author:Edward Albee

“As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.”

Men Children My Own Trouble Involved Police Faults Get Involved

Author:Katie Price

“If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?”

Ifs Book Brain Infinite Agree Faults

Book:The Christian Religion: A Series of Articles from the North American Review

Source: The Christian Religion: A Series of Articles from the North American Review

“All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not my fault that they fall into certain lines and angles.”

May Seems Certain Humanity Fall Lines Inspire Strange Draws Faults Folks Unconscious Angle

Author:Aubrey Beardsley

“Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.”

Children Parent Faults Spoiled Spoiled Children

Author:Roald Dahl

“Now, brethren, this is one of our greatest faults in our Christian lives. We are allowing too many rivals of God. We actually have too many gods. We have too many irons in the fire. We have too much theology that we don't understand. We have too much churchly institutionalism. We have too much religion. Actually, I guess we just have too much of too much.”

Christian Fire Too Much Faults Theology Christian Life Iron Allowing Rivals Brethren Irons In The Fire

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with [...] what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.”

People Made Choices Stuff My Own Poor Couple Blame Faults Jeopardy Poor Choices

Author:Shane Warne

“So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.”

Certain Literature Policy Faults Tendencies Implications Doubtful Tainted Hamilton Federalism

Book:The Promise of American Life

Source: The Promise of American Life

“Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven't got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a pearl we have lost, but a swine?”

Ifs Want Giving Should Action Young Dies Lost Interesting Quality Worst Advice Havens Comfort Faults Temptation Journal Pearls Shameful Keepers Die Young Swine Lenient

Book:Invitation To The Waltz

Source: Invitation To The Waltz

“We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can accept our wonderful selves, with all our faults, foibles, strong points, weak points, feelings, thoughts, and everything else. It's the best thing we've got going for us. It's who we are, and who we were meant to be. And it's not a mistake. We are the greatest thing that will ever happen to us. Believe it. It makes life much easier.”

Believe Self Feelings Happens Strong Mistake Accepting Our Lives Wonderful Easier Weak And Love Faults Best Things Who We Are Cherish Meant To Be Were Meant To Be Foibles Weak Points

Author:Melody Beattie