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.

Javier Solana

Once these conditions are fulfilled, the European Union will stand ready to continue to support the Palestinian economic development and democratic state building.

Bill Green

It was a horrible time. Dirt drifted up and covered barbed-wire fences. Conditions were much worse than they are today because we have learned a lot about soil conservation in 70 years.

Ranaan Gissin

The operation is going well and his condition is stable.

Janica Kostelic

I was really surprised...but this is one of the nicest slopes for slalom and it seems the more difficult the conditions the better I do.

Jack McMahon

I found out (Sunday) and I was shocked. Then, I heard today that he was in critical condition after the surgery. That didn't sound good. It's terrible. He's 45 years old. He's one of the nicest people I've ever met in or out of baseball.

Mitch Daniels

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

Jed Dickerson

Just looking to see the conditions of the lake. Kind of looking to see what I can see.

Harvey Rosenblum

If you look at the record, at how the U.S. has weathered shocks, we have a very, very resilient economy. Initial conditions matter.

Gidi Sabag

We're not very rich. At the end of 90's, we faced huge economic problems, but we are in fair condition now.

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

LaVar Arrington

I've slowed everything down, ... I slowed how I view things. I slowed how I react to things. Not just in football, but in life. I used to create something in my mind and make myself go 100 miles an hour towards whatever that was.

Jan Egeland

The way it is now it can not continue. We need security, which we do not have. We need a government that enables us to work and does not create obstacles to our work. We need a guerrilla (force) that does not specialize in hijacking relief trucks and fighting each other and displacing new people, which has happened in the past few weeks. And we need funding.

Kevin Appleby

We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.

David Rose

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

Peter Chernin

From our perspective it created a unique and wonderful opportunity.

Jose Andres Puerta

Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept.

Jeff Bennett

I would imagine it would create some jobs.

Julie Gerberding

As an infectious disease expert, I've never seen a pathogen emerge and go away on its own, ... We have to expect that sometime, somewhere, this virus is going to rear its ugly head again.

Susan Sontag

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Aaron Harris

He's like a disease. He's like an infection. He just spreads.

Chanakya

There is no disease (so destructive) as lust; no enemy like infatuation; no fire like wrath; and no happiness like spiritual knowledge.

Pam Finkelstein

It goes to someone that has that disease where they lose all their hair. And it goes to people who have went through chemotherapy because wigs are very expensive.

Robert Jordan

Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.

Anna Johnson

Their risk of heart disease is predicted to be higher.

John Roehrig

There's always a tendency to get comfortable with the fact that this disease is out there, especially if you live in a place where you've had West Nile for four or five years and never been infected.

Paul Hartman

There's a possibility it'll have the same impact or more that Dutch elm disease had on the elms. When it comes, it's a real crusher.

Kevin Logan

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

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Tia Carrere

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Stan Getz

I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Runners are poor walkers.

Bill Nygren

I don't think it has anything personally to do with Bob.

Julie Chen

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

Louis Auchincloss

Your literary style reflects your personality.

Jo Coudert

It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.

Edward Bach

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.