Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. Hoover

The president gets credit for the sunshine and blame for the rain - and there's a lot of rain here.

Jeffrey Bryant

If a square peg doesnt fit a round hole, neither the peg nor the hole is to blame. Between two people, the question "whose fault is it?" is the friend of argumentation and the destroyer of growth-oriented communication. Assigning blame involves listening to criticize and responding to defend, speaking to lower the other person rather than speaking to build each up. Relational progress is impossible as long as blame is the focus because blame and progress are enemies. In our litigation-hungry society we must take care that focusing on fault - which is proper for the courtroom - doesnt carry over into interpersonal relationships. The heart of loving communication is listening to understand.

Paul Hayes

I said, 'You're not going to have any help for the handicapped?' And he said, 'No, you had your chance.' They're putting blame all on people not wanting to go, but that isn't so,

Grace McGarvie

Name it and Blame it, doesn't mean you solved it, nor owned it, nor changed it

Matt Cavanaugh

I take credit or blame for a couple of the losses. I thought I called some poor games offensively, and I didn't give our players a chance to execute some plays. ... So, I've got a lot of improvement to make. It's not just the players.

Robert Wright

Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver

Washington Irving

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

Khalil Gibran

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

John Marshall

It would be useful to the voters if Marc wanted to talk about the issues, but he's now proven he's incapable of civil debate. He's more interested in calling names. Holtzman is desperate for attention.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Sarah Baker

I don't go around calling myself a fat girl. It doesn't feel fun to me.

Bob Parker

Please keep in mind that commuters can report matters fundamental to the transit system direct to Metro Police Dispatch by calling 713-224-COPS (2677).

Richard Perle

In the Middle East, democratization does not mean calling immediate elections and then living with whatever happens next.

Joey Tribbiani

I ran his plays this week, calling them by numbers, to make it easy for our defense. What I couldn't duplicate was the speed he's got over there.

Steve Moore

Calling your fans a 12th man is one thing.

Yomiuri Shimbun

Calling snap elections that would create a political vacuum just to save face should be avoided.

Hebrew Proverb

Pride is the mask we make of our faults

Roger Daltrey

I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.

Swami Vivekananda

Religion is not in fault.

Ernest Hemingway

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

Howard Rosen

There's a lot of fault to go around to a lot of people.

Rick Gibbons

There's' a lot of fault being thrown around here.

Edward Taylor

There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, ... That's like a fault line.

Phil Nevin

At least I wasn't pulled out of the lineup like I was in the doubleheader. How can you fault a guy for wanting to play? We don't make out the lineup.

Sheila Gerding

It wasn't so much one person's fault in the first half. We were just in the wrong defense.

Rick Harris

A flat market is normal during the winter months.

Spencer Roecker

Flat Rock is a good team. There's a reason why they're in the top one or two teams in the league every year.

Bobby Hauck

We just had our lunch handed to us by a real talented, well-coached football team. We couldn't handle their front four on defense. It starts with them. We just flat couldn't handle them.

B. F. Skinner

We went flat and started coasting after the 7-1 lead after two innings. But I thought we played pretty good for the first game of the season.

Mason Cooley

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

John Sevier

Should I be so happy as to merit your patronage, I flatter myself neither you nor my country, could have any occasion to regret.

Jean Paul

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Kevin Knox

But I don't see many of these flat panels popping up for mainstream users.

Doug Winslow

I thought we were flat offensively. We were still making a lot of mistakes. We really need to come out and play the first quarter.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Bill Clinton

You gave me the ride of my life, and I've tried to give as good as I got.

Dave Joppie

Nobody quit and nobody gave up. They all played right to the end. They are all much better players for having to go through that.

Public Enemy

CBGB always gave musicians a platform to say important things, ... It's time we did something to save one of New York's great institutions.

Marcus Samuelsson

My father was a big influence - it was very important to him that we traveled, and he gave me my strong work ethic.

Ryan Dunn

I'm Ryan Dunn, and I'm about to get the sh*t kicked out of me by a girl.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matsuo Basho

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Sherry Stringfield

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

Nikola Tesla

So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.

Nicole Eggert

For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.

Neil Gaiman

Twitter is great and it's glorious and it's easy, but if somebody comes up with something kind of like Twitter tomorrow, that's better or smarter or more useful, in three weeks time, Twitter could more or less be history because that's how fast things go.

Marvin Minsky

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.