#lame

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you. ↗

— Tom Watson

#behind #come #fight #fire #fires

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. ↗

— Simone Weil

#blame #encourage #fear #kill #killers

Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#capture #down #everybody #flames #gone

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions! ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#come #competing #defeat #experience #forces

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#action #blame #cause #created #effect

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#else #feel #luxury #ourselves #right

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people. ↗

— Prince William

#actions #blame #decision #i #i think

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#ego #fiction #gets #person #social

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#i #inflame #lesbian #nothing #only

If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#blame #complain #i #jam #myself