Carole Radziwill Quotes

An excuse is sometimes more ugly than guilt.

Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.

Ever the blameless narcissist, Trump always insists that the buck stops wherever convenient - for him, personally.

I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

For Trump, success always has a single father - himself. Failure has a hundred - everyone and anyone else. The media. The Democrats. The 'deep state.' Disloyal staffers. Prosecutors. Judges. Anyone who doesn't do his bidding or sufficiently sing his praises.

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

In true, narcissistic fashion, when my father was diagnosed as a narcissist, he called us all up individually to tell us, and he did it with true pride.

It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.

To be fair to Monica," I said, "what you did to her wasn't very nice either." "What'd I do to her?" he asked, defensive. "You know, going blind and everything." "But that's not my fault," Isaac said. "I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice.

By the time she got back to work, the only thing Gabby knew for certain was that as forgiving as he'd been, she'd never live down what she'd done, and since there wasn't a rock large enough to crawl under, it was in her best interest to find a way to avoid him.

Never underestimate a man's ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.

I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.

The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to refuse responsibility for deciding about Christ, but Pilate's hands were never dirtier than just after he had washed them.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility.