Quotes with fault-finding

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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • John Gray A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
    John Gray
    American relationship counselor, lecturer and author (1948 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Casey Stengel All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • William Shakespeare And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Willa Cather Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • George Herbert Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault and truth discourtesy.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Ovid Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Brendan Coyle Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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  • Bob Dylan But I mean no harm nor put fault
    On anyone that lives in a vault
    But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bruce Nauman But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Gertrude Stein Disillusionment in living is the finding out nobody agrees with you not only those that are and were fighting with you.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Denis Waitley Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Mohsin Hamid Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Jonathan Miller Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
    Jonathan Miller
    English theatre and opera actor, author and television presenter (1934 - )
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  • Phil McGraw Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.
    Phil McGraw
    American television personality and author (1950 - )
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  • Carlo Collodi Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Sydney Smith Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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