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,

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

Mike Trewick

Sometimes I feel like we play a little scared. I think we play not to lose rather than play to win sometimes. That always happens when we start pressing a little too much.

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Tracy McCormick

We had called for a widespread 1 to 2 inches of rain this weekend. This week, we're watching what happens to the remnants of Hurricane Wilma." ()

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Joe Borowski

Everything happens in threes. It might happen again.

Sheryl Crow

Everything that happens to you influences your writing,

Ariel Sharon

Everything that happens leads to salvation, ... Even if there is destruction, in the end, redemption will come.

Bryant Gumbel

I don't want to wait until something happens to see who my friends are.

Wayne Coyne

People think its more high-tech than it really is with all the video and all that. It's still held together with duct tape.

Teresa Sheehey

Right now we don't have a meeting room in the building, so some of our programs have to be held off site. For example, our summer reading programs have to be held at the Hilltop Center.

Lupita Nyong'o

I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.

Brandon Siler

We held them and we stopped them when we had to. I'm proud.

Charles Rangel

And yet, Republicans have held hostage every penny of relief until the Senate passes their special interest tax breaks,

Alexander Mackenzie

I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.

Maria Semple

I attended TED in 2007 and 2008, the last two years the conference was held in Monterey.

Duane Schwab

We've held teams to 54.8 points per game, and we're pretty proud of that. This team has really come together.

Sanford Rubenstein

Let the message go out that in this country, when a police officer kills an innocent victim, he will be held accountable.

Carlos Alberto

Officially there are 166 dead, and another 125 missing and presumed dead,

Shawn Marion

Sometimes we have a team down 20 points and then start missing some shots. That's when we need to clamp down on defense. It's not easy, but at the same time we've got to do it.

Eric Anderson

There will only be one first private mission to the moon,

Arthur Conan Doyle

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

Juvenal

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

David Nicholls

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Trent Dilfer

Braylon wants to get better, and he wants to get a sense of timing and rhythm with me. After the one I just missed him down the middle, I went to the sideline and told him we're not there yet but we're going to get there this game.

Danny Miller

We go out and do our best, ... but we have to move on to our next missing person.

Jeffrey Hammond

We're going to be in the outer cordon-type mission of controlling traffic, posturing ourselves in a position where if we have to respond, we can react immediately,

Sam Lewis

During the playoffs the teams really come at you and we're going to be the team to beat.

Jason Richardson

If you want to be in a position to be a playoff team, you can't play that type of ball,

Rob Phillips

To me, this had all the ingredients of a playoff game.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.

Ayn Rand

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

Benito Mussolini

We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

Jane Goodall

Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.

Jane Goodall

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

Carl von Clausewitz

Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement and confidence we can be sure that we are in the presence of exceptional ability.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place

Charles Clarke

We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence

bell hooks

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.

Angus King

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

Kathy Valentine

together we're trying to make a wish come true that somebody else wasn't going to let happen.

Mike Williams

You get somebody in here and they say they only need it two or three months, and they'll stay a year. We have 800 units here, and I'm full.

Mary Carillo

There's somebody to look at, and I think that really helped.

Peter Schmitz

Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.

Jonathan Hickman

I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.

Doug Adkins

Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.

Chauncey Billups

Somebody is always going to come up big in the stretch. We never know who, but somebody will come up big.

Chris Pronger

I don't really think it has anything to do with any of us over there. It has nothing to do with me, so I don't really have anything to say about it. When you find somebody who's involved, you can talk to them.