Quotes of: Fault Keyword

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Jack Kerouac

Marilia: Their fathers were very different but they were both born insane. It's my fault.

The Skin I Live In

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

Philip Sidney

Camel Driver: [talking about the war] How did it start? Archy Hamilton: Don't know exactly, but it was the German's fault.

Gallipoli

Patton: In ten days I'll have a war on with those Communist bastards, and I'll make it look like THEIR fault.

Patton

Wreck-It Ralph: It's not my fault one of your children of the candy corn stole my medal.

Wreck-It Ralph

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Herman Melville

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.

Ibrahim Babangida

We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'

Mona Simpson

I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.

Sienna Miller

The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.

Wynton Marsalis

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.

George Edmund Street

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Plutarch

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

Richard Armour

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has...

Timothy Murphy

Mum: And what are your faults? I mean, little weaknesses. Mary: Well, I'm very insecure. Mum: Sweet.

About Time

Yurek: [Looks at Nelson strangely] What's wrong with him? Twombly: Oh, he's deaf. My fault.

Black Hawk Down

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

Amy Bloom

I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

Aaron Levie