Roger Rosenblatt Quotes

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

It is less important to find solutions than scapegoats.

Many think that assigning blame settles matters.

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

People who lose money always need someone to blame.

No one is accountable anymore for anything. No one did anything wrong. Well, you're to blame. That's to blame. This is to blame.

When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization.

You get blamed for whatever happens on your watch.

If I've done anything wrong, I believe it's his fault.

We all have some proper noun to blame.

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

there's plenty of blame to go around.

The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.

But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you.