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.

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.

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,

Bob Farrell

We're looking at another fine day (Tuesday), but it might not be so fine Wednesday and Thursday. I don't think the Big Island will catch the brunt of it.

John O. Brennan

If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.

Chris Woods

They were a little teed off from Saturday, and Montrose sort of took the brunt of it. It was a good challenge for us.

Tony Jones

We're getting back incorrect deductible amounts, incorrect co-pays. We're here on the front lines, getting the brunt of it all. Not every patient has these problems, but there's a lot of it going on.

John Anton

Demand is high, but growth will be difficult for 2006. Galvanized sheet is used heavily in consumer durables-especially items such as sports utility vehicles. This sector carried the manufacturing economy during the recession; now it is due to cool.

Jim Tharp

The term gets used a lot, but we do think this is a movie that can be carried by word of mouth,

Jim McCormick

We have positive, enthusiastic learning centers in all our schools and that has carried over to Southern Lee, ... I'm hoping for a large turnout. Even people who don't or won't have children in school will have a very positive experience walking through Southern Lee High School. They will also see how schools have changed. As we consider renovations to Lee County High School, we will be looking at what we've done at Southern Lee." ()

Maj. Lundy

The crew who were in the vehicle would have been a little shaken up, but they've carried on with their task.

Juan Carlos

Should the Iraqi government not respond positively to the message carried by this team, the secretary-general would have no choice but to terminate his intervention, which was initiated with the sending of the team,

Ariel Sharon

I would like to congratulate the security forces on the successful operation that they carried out last night,

Faith Hill

We don't forget (them), ... I've never been to Iraq, I would love to go. And I would love to sit down with every family member, the wife that's left over here to carry the load. I've been with a friend with three children who's carried the load while her husband was in a war, so I would say, 'You're not forgotten. We support you, you're fighting for a free country, you are fighting to make this world a better place for all of us.

Bob Bolen

He was a hard worker at Woodrow, and it's carried over to his coaching, I think he's doing a great job. He was a tremendous player and always a joy to be around. He's always been a great kid, he was a great kid growing up, now he's a great young man.

Joe Torre

He carried that with him the first half of the year. If for some reason his routine gets disrupted, (he's) sort of off-center. But he left spring with a good look in his eye.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

William Petersen

The name change isn't for those of us here in New England. The name change is for those folks entering the region.

Lanny Wadkins

The thing that put the question mark in a lot of people's minds was the swing change. I, like a lot of other people, questioned it just for the fact that if you think back to all the great players from Hogan to Snead to Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson and Trevino . . . none of those guys ever changed their swing to get better.

Jim Haslett

The one thing I did learn this year is that things change fast. You've got to be able to adapt. I guess that's the way life is. You just don't know what things are going to change.

Greg Olson

Spam' is the number-one issue for ISP's. It's killing them, ... This is definitely going to change the Internet.

Joe Zappala

Now is as good a time as any to change it.

Marianne Williamson

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

Jehane Noujaim

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Brand Pretorius

Dealers pushed particularly hard in March in order to qualify for their quarterly sales incentive bonuses.

George Foster

Anything that's on the lower end of the pay scale would probably be harder to fill.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Riley Wallace

(Substituting is) our job. They need to play hard and we need to watch them.

Matt Smith

Some people don't need to work hard because they are so talented.

Dennis Shaver

Some people don't have to work nearly as hard to go as she did. I don't know how it will turn out. But I do know she'll go there, walk onto that track and leave everything she can do out on the track. She won't take anything with her.

Dick Bartholdi

Some people thought we were going to lie down and lose 15-0. But our kids don't do that. I'm biased, but I think our kids work harder than anybody.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Dan Gallagher

These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them until we take action,

Dr. Denny

All are home now, and are recovering or have recovered.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.

Jamie Dimon

We don't think there are cases where people were evicted out of homes when they shouldn't have been.

Krysten Ritter

I've watched 'Clueless' as many times as humanly possible. Like, I would run home from school to watch it. Like, I can quote it backwards.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brian Tracy

The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Drew Matus

There's no sign of inflation, and the labor market is still weak. There's still plenty of room from the Fed's point of view.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Labor humanizes, exalts.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

Thomas Graham

If it wasn't for union workers and labor unions, there would be no 40-hour work weeks, eight-hour work days, pensions or vacations,

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

From labor there shall come forth rest.

Norm Johnson

We have the labor. What we're going to need is the materials.

Paul Swanson

We are making arrangements to sell everything. The idea is to pay mortgage holders off (and) get as much money as I can to people who supplied labor and material.

Lee Sentell

We know a lot of people have put their Labor Day plans on hold.

Dolores Huerta

I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

Anthony Romero

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

Brian Corcoran

What separates her is that she wants to set a legacy at Pope John. She wants to do things that nobody has ever accomplished. She's ready to show what she can do.

Nick Richardson

The track must be re-laid, as a legacy for the sport,

Duke of Wellington

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

Sam Smith

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

Lee Iacocca

Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

Theodore Roosevelt

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

George Eliot

We cannot reform our forefathers.

Melanie Sloan

Lobbying reform is going more the enforcement route. What's that going to do? Nothing much.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

Horace Mann

Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.

Narendra Modi

Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.

Emmeline Pankhurst

You have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Amy Winehouse

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

Alexander Ovechkin

I saw the rebound and when the puck came to me, I said, oh my God, puck, I must shoot.

David Foster Wallace

If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

Stephen Covey

Often we are so busy with sawing that we forget to sharpen the saw.

Jane Kaczmarek

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

Ally Carter

Waffles. Im craving waffles." Bex rolled onto her side. "Tell your waffles hi for me.

Ann Coulter

Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal.

Adolf Loos

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

Alexander Pope

He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

E. M. Forster

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

Donella Meadows

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor