Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?

Wendy Murphy

We also want not to blame women. We always want to make clear it's always the criminal's fault, 100 percent.

Afghan Proverb

The person sins, then blames Satan for it

Ken Khachigian

The point here is to move forward, to get the debate moving from fault and blame to solutions.

William Shakespeare

Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be

Rick Carlisle

We have no one to blame but ourselves. You play a lousy third quarter and give up a bunch of turnovers, you're going to tempt fate with that kind of play over a 12-minute period.

Rich McBride

We have no one to blame but ourselves. Now is the only time to prove ourselves. Otherwise, we'll go home.

Rick Carlisle

We have no one to blame but ourselves. I give Boston credit. They hung in and did what they have to do to win the game.

Chaka Fattah

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

Edward Gibbon

Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .

Andrew Grossman

Unprecedented in its size and scope, Higher Expectations Week unifies concerned citizens to highlight the myriad of problems Wal-Mart creates, ... Together, this national movement is moving toward making the retailing giant a better employer, neighbor and corporate citizen.

Martina Horvathova

We want respect. We don't feel equal citizens of the Czech Republic. We don't feel free. We fear for our children.

James Nash

We want our citizens of Houston and our citizens from New Orleans to know that we've got to come together as one and we do that by communicating, by sharing.

J. J. Johnson

We were trying so hard not to do something that would upset this man and get one of our citizens killed. ... Everything had to be read from a script.

Bob McDonnell

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

Kim Campbell

Whether you come from Port Alberni on the West Coast as I do, or from Port-Cartier on the shores of the St. Lawrence, we all share the rare privilege of being citizens of one of the greatest countries in the world.

Maria Rodriguez

We're getting used to people on the street. Now it's time to get residents to become citizens and citizens to vote.

Dick Durbin

Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely without a charge.

Makoto Ebata

We are looking into all potential locations, but eastern Europe is a strong contender.

Michael Roach

Unfortunately, Middle Eastern people are going to be approached more often than not,

Brenda Wickwire

They played pretty well. We play Eastern Wayne (today) and that is going to be a tough match because they are a good team.

Lu Donnelly

They stopped following the trends in Eastern Pennsylvania and tinkered much more with variety. There's a huge variety here that you don't see in eastern counties.

Bill Goodman

There was flooding in some various streams, but just toward the western half of the state. I don't see it as being problematic for Eastern Connecticut.

Richard Grasso

It will be a market that will have very little to do with Eastern Standard Time,

Roger Altman

The more Mr. Putin extends the fighting in eastern Ukraine, the more the financial markets will ratchet up their own pressure on Russia.

Todd Crawford

After a prolonged stretch of very mild weather in the eastern U.S., winter will return in February.

Alexander Rahr

Right now, we have a gas war in Eastern Europe. A politician like him would have to be in the middle of all these quarrels.

Alan Sugar

I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do .

Allan Cunningham

Wha the deil hae we got for a king, / But a wee, wee German lairdie!

Hubertus Pellengahr

For a long time, the Germans held the deutsche mark as a proof of normality, something that held them together.

Betty Schwab

There's been approximately 11 or 12 within the last month in the German Village area.

Sepp Blatter

The stars of the tournament will serve as role models for hundreds of millions of other players around the world. So it is all the more important that Germany 2006 sets a positive example.

Gerhard Schroeder

No! We don't want German soldiers in Iraq!

Martin Compston

I've two huge German shepherds who are my boys. They're called Biscuit and Buster, and I love them to bits.

Terry Wogan

I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic.

Albert Einstein

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Capt. Ready

They tried to recruit some students from Dowling Middle School.

Mimi Rodriguez

It's an unwritten rule that the middle passenger should get two armrests.

Cameron Crowe

I told them, 'Don't even think about the camera. It may not even be near you. Just have the party.' And then there's somebody in the middle of them shooting film.

Lance Armstrong

There's a setup here and I'm stuck in the middle of it,

Jacqueline Roberts

It was the middle of the night. We waited for the ambulance for 45 minutes.

Ed Parkinson

It will be all or nothing. There won't be any middle road.

Giancarlo Fisichella

It was important for me to do my best. It was really hot. In the middle of the race you are tired. It's important to concentrate.

Randy Simmons

When I was a middle school principal it disgusts me, some of the things I had to work through at that young age.

Matt Braeuer

As a kid, that was my dream. I always said that's where I want to be, in the middle of the madness. As long as things go as expected, I think we'll be in the middle of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.