Quotes by Authors - Page 24

Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.
Oscar Wilde
Or was he saying, "Hi! Wanna play?"And I did. Of course I did.
Jeff Lindsay
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
E B White
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.
James P. Carse
He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.
Douglas Adams
The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?
Brom
The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.
Douglas Adams
It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.
Tennessee Williams
I thought that one was going to hit me,” I said, watching the disappointed girl stalk off into the crowd. “Being your girlfriend is dangerous.” “What can I say? I’m a magnificent specimen of manhood. Of course they all want me. But I do appreciate you protecting my honor.
Kylie Scott
I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play...
Meher Baba
Oh, yeah. You're the best," I grinned back at him."Pumpkin, hello. Of course I am!
Kylie Scott
Sure you do. Everyone wants to play. They’re just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what’s stupid? Not trying. So just…try.
Victoria Scott
Kelley. Your name is Kelley, isn't it?" He didn't wait for her confirmation. "Yes. Well. Tell me...that bit just now...was that from Dante's Inferno?"Uh...no," Kelley stammered. Her face felt hot.Really?"I'm in for it.Are you sure?" he continued. "Because it most certainly wasn't from this play. And it bloody well sounded like hell.
Lesley Livingston
Pumpkin, stop rubbing your ass against me. We gotta go! I don’t have time to do you now. Prioritize, woman.
Kylie Scott
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
Anonymous
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the blame
Josh Stern
You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are.
Habeeb Akande
When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.
Meg Cabot
The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.
Steve Maraboli
As the man left and became gone the fault wailed after him, heartbroken. Yelling back at him all the ways he and it belonged to one another.
Rosca Marx
Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything...except the blame. It was waiting for her when she awoke...
Jasper Fforde
There has to be blame and there has to be reasons and there has to be answers and if nobody can adequately accept the blame and give a sufficient reason and provide an answer, the love, no matter how strong it is, the family, no matter how tight it is, the life, no matter how good it is, will always buckle, then snap, then drown completely under the pressure of itself, the reality of the mistrust, and the weight of its own history, because if there are no answers, the blame and the guilt become stronger than the love and those two things together become a force that no amount of love can ever break down and overcome.
Jason Myers
No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.
Steve Maraboli
Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.
Gillian Flynn
When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities.When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They’re less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through.
Steve Goodier
Why do women always do this? Why are they so eager to blame themselves when someone treats them like sh*t? A guy would take a cheese grater to his tongue before admitting he screwed up.
Emma Chase
To fundamentally solve a problem, we must understand it's cause. In that I mean the chain of actions or circumstances that led to the problem--rather than only the immediate cause, which serves only to place blame.
Charlie Herrick
Perfectionist parents seem to operate under the illusion that if they can just get their children to be perfect, they will be a perfect family. They put the burden of stability on the child to avoid facing the fact that they, as parents, cannot provide it. The child fails and becomes the scapegoat for family problems. Once again, the child is saddled with the blame.
Susan Forward
Stop blaming and start being!
Bryant McGill
How can God allow this to happen? How can our predecessors allow this to happen? How can YOU allow this to happen? We could all blame everyone else for the problems of the past that brought us the present, but that doesn't do us any good. The past has already been written, and there's nothing you can do about it. The only thing you can do is concentrate on making it a better place today. Be the present example by following your heart and not worrying what others are doing.
Jason Micheal Ratliff
When you blame others you are effectively proclaiming that you are only response to stimuli.
Bryant McGill
If you think everything is someone else's fault, you'd be wrong. If you think everything is your fault, you're also wrong. Assigning blame can keep you stuck in the problem. Move on to solutions.
Sue Fitzmaurice
The longer you blame the mirror, the longer you throw away the power to change what it is reflecting.
Steve Maraboli
She knew there were words so terrible you heard them with your whole body. Guilty. And there were voices to say them. She knew there were people you might almost trust who would hear them, too, and be amazed, and still not really hear them because they know they were not the ones the words were spoken to.
Marilynne Robinson
Although stigmatizing attitudes are not limited to mental illness, the public seems to disapprove persons with psychiatric disabilities significantly more than persons with related conditions such as physical illness (34-36). Severe mental illness has been likened to drug addiction, prostitution, and criminality (37,38). Unlike physical disabilities, persons with mental illness are perceived by the public to be in control of their disabilities and responsible for causing them (34,36). Furthermore, research respondents are less likely to pity persons with mental illness, instead reacting to psychiatric disability with anger and believing that help is not deserved (35,36,39)."World Psychiatry. 2002 Feb; 1(1): 16–20.PMCID: PMC1489832Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illnessPATRICK W CORRIGAN and AMY C WATSON
Patrick W. Corrigan
Being the bearer of bad news is a terrible thing; sometimes you don't know if you'll have the words, the delicacy,the strength. You think of the person on the other side: how you're about to bring their world crashing down with a single phone call and deep inside them they'll hate you because their sorrow will just be searching for someone to blame. Then what do you say? That you're sorry? Sorry for what? They'll hate you even more because they'll know you're not sorry like they are. They'll know you haven't been destroyed like they have.
Emma Abdullah
The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.
Warren Eyster
Blaming the woman for the loss of a child is like blaming the soldier for the loss of his life in battle.
Katherine Longshore
My point," Jason said, "is that blaming each other isn't going to solve anything. That's how the Romans and the Greeks got divided in the first place.
Rick Riordan
The only person to blame for your situation is you.
Fennel Hudson
I reckon that blaming people fixes nothing. You're the only person who is going to sort you out. No-one else really can - or really cares, enough. That's what Nepalis know - better than anyone. That's our Western disease. Don't take responsibility. Take on a lawyer!
Jane Wilson-Howarth
... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Integrity and blame can never be friends.
Charles F. Glassman
Blame is the coward’s retreat.They think it frees them, but it confines them… Blame is also the coward’s warden.
Steve Maraboli
Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON!
John Taliaferro
. . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . .
Charlotte Brontë
Due to our act of Personal Irresponsibility, illegal businesses are set-up, our neighbourhoods are not secured and the economy directly and indirectly takes a big hit. The government alone cannot be blamed for this, because this is our neighbourhood and if we cannot take care of our immediate surroundings, then we are clearly not carrying out our responsibilities and we don’t have any business blaming someone else.
Sunday Adelaja
Life don't care 'bout sorry's," Will says. "Bad things happen, and you can't let 'em harden you. Whatever happened to yer pa, it ain't yer fault, Nate, and you gotta let it go.
Erin Bowman
It’s the way I walk through the world, carrying that fear, that the beloved will go, will die, and that I will be the one to blame.
Nick Flynn
This focusing outward...painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination.
M.L Stedman
Engaged Audience Members are receptive to the messages of dangerous speech and to condoning group-targeted harm, but are not hardliners. For example, they may be easily influenced by charismatic leaders who promise to resolve their grievances, or be receptive to blame narratives. This could be any member of society, but certain types of people (based on demographic or other characteristics) may be disproportionately engaged.
Rachel Hilary Brown
Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?
Jeanette Winterson
He blamed every fucker available excepting, of course, the one who was actually to blame, the one sitting in his saddle and getting colder, hungrier, and more lost with every unpleasant moment. ‘Shit!’ he roared at nothing.
Joe Abercrombie
Why must we hide, Behind walls built high?N' blame our lives, On him, her, I?
Kari L. Greenaway
You’ll never learn anything or impress anyone by making excuses and diverting blame.
Frank Sonnenberg
Refuse to blame yourself for not being 'good enough
John Mark Green
Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures.
Patrick Ness
They came to the high stone shaft with the face of Sul; they descended to the terrace below. And here Caradog waited, leaning on his silver-tipped rod and eying the horizon, until the delicate slip of the new moon moved out from behind the shoulder of Mount Damyake, with the mysterious, shadowy ghost of the old moon cradle inside it, like an egg inside its egg cup."Now it is time," he
Joan Aiken
A victim is someone who blames it all on someone else. Why give all the power to someone else and leave yourself powerless?
Christina Moss
The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.
Terry Pratchett