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

Craig Chilton

You can't put the blame on Bush for all that happened. They blame Bush for the late response, but they did not put the blame on the state and local folks. There were regional buses, school buses that could have evacuated people out of New Orleans.

John Flaherty

You can place blame any where you want to. You can maybe say that Randy went a little too far. There's probably some truth to that, but I was surprised that Fieldin threw him out as quickly as he did knowing the kind of umpire that he is. He's a very good umpire. I don't know if Randy stepped over the line. I didn't necessarily think he did.

James Griffin

This is a hard sell. This is not an easy sell. I can't blame them to a certain degree, but we've got to stop being so tied to one party.

Russ Mitchell

The folks in charge now are very aggressive. I don't blame them for going after Katie one bit. She's a big star and a very talented journalist - and a nice person as well.

Michael Parker

Everybody is to blame it transcends administration. It transcends party.

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.

Judith Sayers

Transfer of title has been completed, the Island corridor is now Island-owned and it's connecting communities.

Michael Crye

You are much safer on a cruise ship than you are in virtually any community in the United States.

Ruud Lubbers

While we expect neighboring states to live up to their responsibilities to protect refugees, ... we also expect the international community to do its part by supporting humanitarian efforts throughout the region.

Meg Whitman

While we do not have liability, we do have a responsibility to our community of users with respect to fraud prevention,

Ken O'Brien

You can't do just one (community assessment). If you're not doing it every 12 or 24 hours, you're not serving the community.

Courtney Williams

We wanted to do something to help rebuild the city, to contribute something that would help the residents directly. When you give monetary donations, you're not sure if the people who need the help actually get it. This opportunity to rebuild the community physically got us really excited.

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.

Steve Spurrier

There may be a few that say, 'Well, he's trying to use that as an excuse for getting his butt kicked by some teams. I'm not trying to use any excuses. We sort of are what we are.

Heather Dougherty

It's a good marketing opportunity for retailers -- it's a good excuse to reach out.

Dave Martin

It really looks like there should be no excuse for not having a medal.

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.

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.

Sophocles

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophie Swetchine

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

Stephenie Meyer

The only reason I left was to protect you.

Tommy Wiseau

The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.