Top 399 Fault Quotes

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

It is not Kafka’s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

If we lose and someone is better than us then we accept it. Handshake after the game and well done and focus on the next game. But if we lose and don’t play the style of football we want to play then we know it’s our fault and we can do it better.

I don’t think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.

My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one’s fault. It was just how it was.

The lion’s share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.

I hope that anyone facing or experiencing discrimination will, first of all, take to heart that this is not their fault, and they are not alone in this. Secondly, I hope they find ways to plug into communities to help prevent negative feelings of discrimination from festering.

There are no excuses in fighting. You can be playing a team sport and have a good game, and you can lose. In fighting, it’s all on me. If I go out there and lose, then it’s my fault. I like that.

My parents never really pushed me, but I was so hard on myself. I would say I had some perfectionist quality, to a fault.

Boxing is so easy for me, sadly. I don’t mean to be cocky. The promoters don’t like that I walk through other girls but it’s not my fault that I’m so good.

The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits – I wasn’t. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you’re stupid. You don’t think, ‘If this kid’s not a good fit, it could be the system’s fault.’

I’m not going to say that the problems of my government, or those of Bolivia, are the fault of the United States. But they could have done a little more to help us.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

When I became finance minister, they called me Okonjo-Wahala – or ‘Trouble Woman.’ It means ‘I give you hell.’ But I don’t care what names they call me. I’m a fighter; I’m very focused on what I’m doing, and relentless in what I want to achieve, almost to a fault. If you get in my way, you get kicked.

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.

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I’m close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I’m bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

When people say there is a ‘reason’ for the depression, they insult the person who suffers, making it seem that those in agony are somehow at fault for not ‘cheering up.’ The fact is that those who suffer – and those who love them – are no more at fault for depression than a cancer patient is for a tumor.

Once we got signed, I moved out of my house because I was having teenage issues with my mom. It really wasn’t my fault, looking back. You know, I’m gay; it’s weird. It was one of the things. She has no problem with me being gay, but she had a problem with me dressing the way I do at first.

As people who know me know, probably to a fault, I am usually not without thoughts and words.

I went out with Robbie Williams and Liam Gallagher. I was accused of going out with many different people but that wasn’t my fault.

A lot of leftists think it is soccer’s fault that people don’t think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet.

The fact that so many comics were waiting to jump on the bandwagon of hate toward me – what is it about me that engages this kind of behavior? I began to see it: My cockiness, my lack of hanging out with other comics. A lot of that wasn’t my fault.

It’s great when people have the confidence to discuss their sexuality if it works for them. I can’t fault someone for not coming out, because I don’t know their journey, what scares them, what’s at stake, or how it will affect their personal life or family.

I like to give people information; that’s to a fault.

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

If Franschhoek has a fault, it is in the lavish refurbishment of wine farms and estates which has reached absurd proportions. Some, like Graf Delaire Estate, are brand new, with jewellery shops, indoor streams, and very high-end lodges for rent at prices not many South Africans can afford.

When you ask me why I do one film a year, it is not my fault. I’ve chosen what I liked from whatever work came my way.

What do you do when life blindfolds you and spins you around? We think it’s our fault, that we’re to blame, when really we should be focused on being gentle with ourselves.

I haven’t got the credit I deserved sometimes, and some of it’s my fault.

Be it China, the World Health Organization, the Bavarian Illuminati, or lizard shapeshifters, it’s never Trump’s responsibility. It’s never Trump’s fault.

I used to be very scared of silence because I felt it was my responsibility to keep people occupied. That definitely spawns from an insecurity in myself. When people aren’t enjoying themselves, when I’m involved, it somehow comes back to it being my fault. But I do want people to have a good time.

That’s one of our biggest problems, it’s always somebody else’s fault instead of our own fault.

I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

Students never think it can be the teacher’s fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn’t do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it’s how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

I saw ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel.’ I liked it. I saw ‘The Fault in Our Stars,’ and I could see why young girls like it. But it dropped off like crazy in the second weekend. I liked ‘Fed Up’ – I love documentaries. I go to a lot of documentaries.

I’ll look back on my career as a whole and at parts of it and say I should have enjoyed that more. I suppose that’s my own fault.

My job is to show my clients that their anger is rarely someone else’s fault. It’s their flaw.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

I don’t think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I’m suspicious of fun. I never quite know what that is or how to deal with it or how to generate it. That’s my fault. I know it’s a burden on the people I’m with. It’s tiresome.

We didn’t score any runs today. That’s not my fault.

One of the greatest struggles of bureaucracies is they get built and created, but they design themselves in such a way that they can never be at fault. They can never be wrong, they can never have made a mistake and they never want to relent.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

I wanted to work in the Hindi film industry much more than what I was offered. But if you are a grain of rice in a wheat field, it is not your fault… You are just different.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

Whenever I am losing, it’s like, ‘It’s his fault’. And whenever I’m winning it’s like, ‘That’s us’. That’s the team, the people.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it’s not your fault – you need to have your oven checked.

I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn’t believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.