I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

Luck's always to blame.

In short, Luck's always to blame.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

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.

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done.

When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful.

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda, so some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that's where you've gotta look because that's what got you into this mess.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

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.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

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.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

In the future, people will blame the Eighties for all societal ills in the same way that people have previously blamed the Sixties. The various Thatcherite Big Bangs - monetarism, deregulation, libertarianism - have been working their way through the culture ever since.

We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.

The state of emergency and critical nature of the times do not allow me, as they do not allow anyone, to embark on a blame game.

Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.