John Seabrook Quotes

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

In short, Luck's always to blame.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

I am responsible but not guilty!

He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.

An excuse is the handy explanation we offer when we disappoint other people.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

An excuse is a lie guarded.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.

You have yourself to blame.

Everybody has some responsibility. The point is, how are we going to fix it? And you don't fix it simply by blaming the other guy, or blaming the past.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.

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

He sighed. " I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?" "No.

The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.

Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.

I think you need to make responsibility something that's not just a word.

No excuses; those were just weak.