"Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame."

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"Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame."

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"It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes."

Maureen Forrester, Canadian Musician

Blame, Mistakes

"The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies."

Greg Ginn, American Musician

Blame, Will

"I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame."

Howard Coble, American Politician

Blame, Exercise, Fault, May

"The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Blame, Truth, Regret, Wisdom

"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

Blame, Killing

"Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man."

Saskya Pandita, Tibetan Leader

Blame, Man, Praise

"Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority."

Chaka Fattah, American Politician

Blame, Majority, Now, Republicans

"If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there."

James Longstreet, American Soldier

Blame, Cause, Desire, Help

"Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man."

Satchel Paige, American Athlete

Blame, Man, Praise

"And just so you know-that winter forest we walked into first? That was from Through the Looking Glass too. Hey, if you're going to saddle me with the blame for your overconsumption, at least get the book right."

Elle Lothlorien, American Novelist

Blame, Humor, Accuracy, Wit

Explore more quotes by Umberto Eco

"There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation."

Danger

"But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

Truth

"I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us."

Fear

"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."

Man

"The devil is not the prince of matter; the devil is the arrogance of spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns from whence he came."

Philosophy

"The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you have to report it, but it causes embarrassment for too many people, so in the same edition you add some shock headlines - mother kills four children, savings at risk of going up in smoke, letter from Garibaldi insulting his lieutenant Nino Bixio discovered, etc. - so news drowns in a great sea of information."

Society

"The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea."

Philosophy

"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom."

Learning

"But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world."

Literature

"The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret."

Power