Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Brown

Jack's teams will always be prepared. They came out ready and we came out sluggish. I take the blame for this loss. I never should have kept us in that zone defense. We've got to be able to play our style of ball. I'm going to learn from this game.

Antwaan Randle

I take the blame for that. It was a poor decision by me. I should have taken the gain and been done with it. I think the pitch was too hard for Hines to handle. I should have just held on to the ball.

Tom Mashek

I take full blame for that match. Kyle wasn't ready to go after the break. Give all the credit to their kid - he's well-coached.

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.

Kevin Towers

The Rangers knew they had a commodity. The only way they were going to part with him was if some team grossly overpaid. I don't blame (them). I'd do the same if I were in that position.

Ron Walker

There is always those people who are lured by huge purses and we don't blame them.

Tony Stewart

He was proactive about it. He didn't blame the teams and the drivers, ... He did his part and worked on the racetrack. It's made it better. We're not seeing the problems we had in testing.

Larry Bird

I ain't gonna sit here and blame it all on Ronnie, because other things happened, too. But in the pros, when you don't win, people are disappointed. I see it and I'm disappointed, too.

Greg Stumbo

I don't guess I really blame him for that.

Alan Murray

Kieron is very, very low at the moment because he cannot seem to get a run of games in the team injury-free,

James Caan

Joseph Russo is a dear friend of mine and I cannot express enough how pleased I am that your office has taken interest and is in pursuit of correcting this problem.

Samuel Jutzi

It can be contained in domestic birds. It can be eliminated in domestic birds, but at the current level of money, it cannot be contained.

Samuel Hopkins

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

Katori Hall

I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.

Roy Moore

It is a crucial time to run for office when rights and liberties are being eroded, taxes climb, the education of our children declines and morality erodes while judges tell children they cannot pray,

Shooter Jennings

L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.

Richard Holbrooke

there is no change in (the American) position in the sense there is a clear disagreement between the Russian government and NATO. But that does not mean we cannot still continue close contacts.

Jimmy Conrad

I was like, well, there goes my chance.

Roy Sommer

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Ken Davis

Keeping it tuned up and keeping it well maintained it goes a long way.

Lorenzo Bundy

He just goes with the flow, wherever the water takes him. He knows he's going to play in the leagues. He knows he's a big leaguer waiting to happen.

Byron Scott

He just doesn't seem real sure of what he's doing out there right now. Again, it goes back to repetition and knowing how to run our offense. . . . I can't wait for Speedy to get back.

Ozzie Guillen

He reminds me of Greg Maddux. He goes out, throws 200-plus innings and throws as quick as he can.

Kathy Hotchner

Hers is a very specific sense of humor. It's not for someone who is very conservative. She is all out there. She goes after everyone.

Cole Porter

Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes

Steve Martinson

He's got a strong resume. So when the situation comes up he goes in and does a great job it makes you feel good.

Ward Churchill

There's always merit to having a debate.

Mr Howard

If there's some outcome, some merit in those sorts of things (I would support the summit),

Epictetus

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

Source Unknown

Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Bob Kluba

As long as our players focus, I feel that we ought to be competitive come tournament time. In addition, I feel that our record could very well merit us a berth in the Virginia State Independent Schools Playoffs. If so, it would be the first time that we qualified for the VIS.

Benjamin Disraeli

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Baltasar Gracian

The more merit, the less affection.

Alexander Pope

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

Laurie Levenson

It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case.

Richelle Mead

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

Ron Chernow

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Travis Barker

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

William J. Clinton

I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

William J. Clinton

When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.

William J. Clinton

No generation has had the opportunity, as we now have, to build a global economy that leaves no-one behind. It is a wonderful opportunity, but also a profound responsibility.

William J. Clinton

Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

William James

[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.

Rhys Ifans

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.

Robert Gottlieb

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

Freddie Roach

I thought it was something I could go to the sideline and shake it off.

Ken Hitchcock

We did some things that really make you shake your head.

Howie Mandel

I know intellectually that if I shake somebody's hand that I'm not going to get sick and die.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Ryan Tedder

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Virginia Foxx

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union and we know how successful that was.

Wayne Dyer

If you think peaceful thoughts, you'll feel peaceful emotions, and that's what you'll bring to every life situation. If you're attached to being right or absolutely need something in order to be at peace or successful, you'll live a life of striving yet never arriving.

Vendela Kirsebom

Im so lucky, Ive been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.

Rod Blagojevich

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

Gary Barnett

I think I said the wrong thing, the wrong way and at the wrong time,

William Anderson

has the right intentions, but he's going about them the wrong way.

Hank Tierney

He said he just didn't want to play. He was out there for all the wrong reasons.

Reggie Ball

I am healthy, ... Nothing is wrong with me. I'm not sick. I'm healthy.

Tom Davies

investigate aggressively what went wrong and what went right.

Tim Purpura

Nothing was wrong with the elbow, but it just didn't feel right, ... There were times when it just didn't feel right.

Csaba Csere

It's very exciting, very intense. You have to be tuned in to every vibration, every sound, because if things go wrong, they go wrong fast.

Bobby Jackson

They just wanted it more. We did all the right things in the first 12 minutes, and did all the wrong things from then on out.

Howard Berman

It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.