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

Mike Browning

I'll take the blame for a lot of it. I've got to make sure I put him in position to get shots.

Francisco Cordero

I heard the fans booing and I don't blame them.

Ozzie Guillen

I know the security in Chicago is doing a great job and when something happens so quickly, you can't blame anybody,

Robbie Nichols

I'm in charge of signing the players, so you can't blame the coach. I talked to seven players today.

J. Horton

You certainly can't blame our guys for getting caught up in the competitiveness of it. I was disappointed with the way they handled it though.

Jen Schlegel

Our theme is, ?Every walker counts in a community that cares,? because a walk like this shows the number of people who do care. I think the numbers speak loudly and are overwhelming that this is a great place to live.

Jeff Corey

are the types of tragedies that impact entire communities.

John McNeil

I've been very happy serving in a smaller school. It's a way of life for me. The interests of mine and the community have been the same. Rural schools have been my life. Montana is one of the most rural states. There's a need to educate every kid in the state.

Robert Cohen

This is not just something that happens to the Jewish community. When something like this happens, it happens to the community as a whole.

Mark Stanton

This is not intended for you to go snooping into houses to make sure everyone meets the requirements. Basically, you'll look at the complaints. If you have a run-down structure that's in poor condition that might be a danger to the community and to rescue personnel, this gives you the tools to work with to get it straightened up.

Sam Farr

This is really exciting news to a community that was hard-hit in the early '90s with the loss of Fort Ord,

Dr. Moore

This is still surprising to me that we had this kind of community outbreak.

Joseph Pores

This is something I'm doing for Boca Community Hospital because they have a need.

Mike Fox

This isn't something that is going to go away by next week. We are going to have these families in our community for some time to come,

Eddy Curry

Sometimes they will look away from me. When I do get the ball, I try to make something happen so they don't have an excuse not to throw me the ball.

P. Herbert

I sort of fell in with the wrong crowd. Things started getting twisted, and instead of facing my drug problem, I made excuses and justified getting away with it because I was maintaining a job and family.

Paul Davis

To be honest, I don't really think so. Everyone is tired this time of year. We can't make the excuse of being tired.

Jarome Iginla

We'll try to have the same mindset for Game 2 as we did Game 1. Now hopefully all the excuses are gone and we can keep going.

Tommie Harris

I take my hat off to them because they didn't have a bye week and we did. There was really no excuse for us to lose and not play as well as we were supposed to.

Tino Martinez

It's the greatest feeling in the world. Those teams we had in the late '90s and won the World Series, they just loved our team for the way we went about our business, the way we worked hard. We weren't real flashy stars. We didn't make excuses when things weren't going our way.

Julia Child

There are reasons, and then there are excuses.

Mikhail Lermontov

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

Charles Coody

Excuse the expression, but I didn't get a virgin there. It's got me before.

Michael Hutchence

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist

Jerry West

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

Noam Chomsky

We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Philippe Lopez

There's no reason we can't be in the top 20.

Irwin Schiff

There's no reason to put me in jail.

Thomas Paine

The choicest gift of God [is] the gift of reason.

Solon

In all things let reason be your guide.

Ringo Starr

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

Tod Machover

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

Sam Harris

Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love

Thomas Hobbes

Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.