If there is something that has worked for me or not worked for me in my personal life then it is because I was at fault somewhere and may be the other person was at fault.
This thing has been studied to death by Republicans and Democrats: several committees, including in Congress, that have all said, ‘Yes, of course what happened was tragic, but Secretary Clinton was not in any way at fault,’ and what you have here with these e-mails is basically a witch hunt.
In the 1970s, girls didn’t do anything. It wasn’t their fault. For me and the other working-class girls I hung around with, our route was plotted – you were a secretary and a wife. I wanted to hitchhike around the world, go on motorbikes, be in bands.
I’m a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault.
I’ve often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.
Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
A fault is fostered by concealment.
I worked very hard, but I think it’s unfair to make it all sound like it’s all David’s fault.
If you know me at all, I’m stubbornly proud to a fault.
There’s an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that’s not true.
The play is always fresh to me. It’s not the audience’s fault that I’ve said the words before.
I like ‘The Fault in Our Stars.’ I thought those two guys did a really, really good job. The movie obviously did really, really well.
The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green’s ‘The Fault in Our Stars,’ recently published by Penguin, was voted Time Magazine’s book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith.
My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It’s their fault I’ve become an actress.
In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I’m nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It’s not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.
What I do now is all my dad’s fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news… and it’s not entirely the media’s fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault – and I must tread carefully here – if she has a fault, this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the longevity of our marriage.
The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes – and it’s their fault.
I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won’t be my fault if he ever stops loving me.
I think at the end of the day, I am myself, to a fault.
I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.
If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.
My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum, although I never judge him. If you did, you’d become one of those people who is all-consumed by a fault in their past. And I haven’t got the time for it.
Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you’re a woman, it’s your fault – not theirs.
I don’t listen well at all. I don’t take direction well at all. I have to admit that is my main fault.
Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
I may have got a little carried away and many critics found fault with some aspects of the film, but as a coming of age film of a character, ‘Vaaranam Ayiram’ worked with the audience.
I’m definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay.
I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.
Children in foster care are there through no fault of their own, and they face challenges that would test the resolve of even the most mature adults: frequent moves, early trauma, instability, and in many cases, abuse.
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.
A lot of the mistakes I made were my fault.
If you’re not playing, you’re probably trying to find excuses when it’s probably your fault.
A troubled economy is always the sitting president’s fault. It was when Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter, when Bill Clinton defeated George H.W. Bush, and when Barack Obama defeated John McCain by running against George W. Bush.
But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they’ve been brought there by no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
When we feel helpless later in life, fear makes us scapegoat others. Instead of fixing the problems, we say, ‘Oh, it’s all their fault – those women or immigrants are infesting our country.’ Rather than useful protest or constructive solutions, we get angry at these handy targets.
I don’t know that there’s any rhyme or reason to bullying… it’s not even the bully’s fault, which is why it’s such a difficult thing to combat.
I love fat people. Every fat person says it’s not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.
The fact that it wasn’t tells me that we’ve got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we’ve got to figure out what was there. And that’s what I call fundamental fault analysis.
I think my greatest virtue is that I have the courage to take tough decisions. As for my greatest fault, I guess I should be a little tougher. The feedback I get always is that I am not as tough and demanding as I should be.
If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man’s face and another behind his back.
I’m not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
The fans pay our wages and I want to give back to the fans. I have been telling them for ages that I want big fights and they haven’t believed me. They don’t know the politics that go on behind the scenes through no fault of my own.
Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don’t know how anyone can find fault with that.
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
I write because it makes God happy that I write. I sing because it makes God happy that I sing. And if it makes God’s people happy, then all the better. But if it fails to do so, it’s probably my fault.
I think the aim – and certainly the aim of what I’ve tried to do since leaving – is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It’s to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine.
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they’re not going to succeed.
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
When I was at Capitol – and this was not Capitol’s fault – I was aiming, you know. I would listen to country radio and go, ‘What version of me does radio want?’
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
