Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Gascoigne

And that way, I don't blame other people. I'm the one that has to keep off the drink. I'm taking responsibility for my life on everything.

E. P. Thompson

Every time the taxes went up, we got blamed for it. But our tax rate at the school district hasn't changed over a decade.

J. Hoover

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

Thomas S. Monson

Blame keeps wounds open; only forgiveness heals

George Whalin

We're continuing to see retailers cite the weather for either making or breaking their sales numbers. Frankly, I think is an excuse tailored to satisfy Wall Street. Wall Street is a little more forgiving if a major retailer blames weather for disappointing sales.

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.

Mark Healy

For two of the last three years, it snowed. Now we can't blame the snow. Now we have to see who's out there and wants to buy a car.

Charles Jones

No one is a failure until they blame somebody else.

Paul Young

....jealousy, that's why she did it. She was caught by her lover with a man, and she had to say something, and she had to blame somebody, and that somebody was Monte Carter.

Jermaine Jenas

They are a great team and we have a lot of respect for them. But we are very confident at the minute and, on home soil, why shouldn't we fancy our chances of getting a win.

Claudio Piron

This raises the chances of an easing in French and German rates before the year end.

John McWhorter

As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.

Dan Haren

We had some chances today, but when it comes down to it, it's the pitch I made to Ramirez. I just look back at it and I'm mad at myself. I let that pitch get away from me. The loss is because of me.

Jim Brunelle

We had some chances in the second half, but we don't know how to finish.

Nate Leaman

We got a lot of power-play chances and I think our (special teams) units were getting a little tired and frustrated. We were getting a little too individual.

Andrew Price

We got a lot of chances in the second half but we didn't convert them. But we'll take the one-nil advantage.

Rich Rodriguez

When you make somebody one-dimensional, your chances of winning the game are pretty good.

Bob Hill

There is a lot to be hopeful for and the focus is here. I wanted to keep the team focused on improvement and that was my goal when I took the job. I think it got to a point where I felt good every night about our chances to win. And that's what you want, to go into each game with a legitimate chance to win.

Riley Wallace

The seniors have led the way, there's no question about that. There was a time during the year when we lost a couple games that they could have gotten down, but they never did that. They just went to work and really kept it going. It all starts at the top with the leadership.

Herb Grace

The team put forth a courageous run with a couple of huge wins in the postseason. We had a lot of fun winning two straight league championships, and we owe a lot of that to the seniors, who have sacrificed a lot to get us here.

Bruce Johnson

A downturn of 10 to 15% in agricultural land over a couple of years could be possible.

Billy Davis

Sometimes you're looking at Eli and he looks just like Peyton a couple of weeks ago.

Bonnie Reed

It would be nice if we had a couple thousand more dollars. It would really be helpful to these people.

Al Jefferson

It was tiring. I had a couple dunks and a lot of jumpers, jump hooks and free throws. It was crazy.

Robin Pemberton

These seats are strong. They don't move around. You can see the head's surrounded when they take an impact. It's got a couple of inches of foam.

Charlie Batch

I've been to a couple of places, but this isn't the first I've been back to Detroit in a while. I was here in our bye week. During the off-season, I'm here twice a month. This is my second home. There are a lot of people I went to school with, a lot of friends I have are still up here.

Rusty Wallace

This is supposed to be my last race and probably will be. I tell you what, having fun like this makes you want to come back a couple of times.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

David Brock

These are all parts of an effort by the administration to manipulate information.

John Tortorella

That's not saying he doesn't have the ability, but he gets everything out of himself every night. And when he's not going, it's not working for him, you know the effort is going to be there.

Pete Hoffman

That's not really the effort I was looking for today. This group's been able to get up for some big games, but today they just didn't get up for it.

Toby Bickel

We've struggled the last half of the season off and on. I was pleased with our effort and our execution, for the most part.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Monica Tooley

We really had a strong team effort. The effort was great the entire time. ... We fixed a lot of things today.

Troy Ellerman

We're a rodeo association, not a bull-riding association. Our efforts should be focused on making our rodeos better.

Ben Lindsey

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Terrell Owens

When I haven't been outside signing autographs, I've been on the inside (rehabilitating) my groin. And that's what happened today.

Colin Anderson

She was there when her mom died. She saw what happened to her mom.

Dan Reeves

because of what happened to us last year.

James Doe

I don't remember. It happened a long time ago.

Reuben Droughns

For me, this is like my cathedral. But I wasn't using what happened to me as motivation. I just poured my heart and soul into it.

Peter Cohen

I feel that so much has happened that I didn't think would happen. I'm shocked. My judgement has been wrong for two years.

Eugene Ionesco

You can only predict things after they have happened.

Ruth J. Simmons

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Godfrey Reggio

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Rod Schwarz

It's real disappointing. I think it shows a lack of preparation and a lack of concentration. We just weren't ready to play.

Gerhard Schroeder

It's cold, it lacks solidarity and it's inhuman,

Kevin Logan

It's a very thin market. People don't want to take any risk because of the lack of liquidity.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Eric Butterworth

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Emma McLaughlin

Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Jane Jacobs

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Janet Jackson

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.

John McNamara

Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin.

Matt Walton

These low numbers may make us look good, but it also looks like we're not telling everything. Penn's numbers may look bad, but at least you know they're telling you everything.

Clark Yingst

Technically, it looks like no more than a reflex rebound, an oversold bounce.

Malia Davis

See how he looks at her when she's eating. He's totally in love.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

Ariel Pink

It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've had an extended adolescence. It helps that I look young, too.

Diana Ross

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

Billy Bob Thornton

The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.

Deborah Tannen

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

John Paul Stevens

Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.

Matt Smith

The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.

Philip Larkin

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

Mark Twain

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Eve Ensler

We must stop being polite and behaved, and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

George Eliot

... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.

Thelma Underberg

I don't know how many we'll get, but the ones that sign the pledge are the ones who will have the support from the majority of the people in South Dakota, I'm quite sure.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Manny Pacquiao

If he wants a rematch, I will give him a rematch. There should be a third fight.

Andre Dubus

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

Suzanne Collins

You're not afraid I'll kill you tonight?" "Like I couldn't take you.

Bobby Frasor

Just watching him out there tonight was something special.

Nancy O'Dell

I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.

John Green

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

John Fahey

Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.

Sean McCarthy

If we do nothing, things will get that much worse sooner.

Jeff Johnson

I can't think of a worse place to put a church,

Dusty Baker

He's day to day. He's no better or worse than he was yesterday.