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.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world

Heidi Michaelis

It's a luxury to have that type of player.

Evan Sayet

Stupidity is a luxury and you will find time and time and time and again that those who are overwhelmingly on the left are those who can afford to be.

Judith Butler

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Marisa Miller

Working out is not a luxury, it's a necessity.

Myles Munroe

You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries

Milton Friedman

Rich people are the experimental ground for every new development. The nature of progress is that what begins as a luxury for the rich becomes a necessity for the poor as it's developed and passed on.

Mark Twain

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

Marian Wright Edelman

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

Peter Roebuck

It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass

Richard Paul Evans

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Richard Dawkins

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

Richard Dawkins

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

Ryan Hall

The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested.

Rose Macaulay

How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.

Tryon Edwards

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Reinhold Messner

If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency.