Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Malin

I've made mistakes in my life, and I've stood before my creator and I've accepted responsibility for my behavior.

Earl Campbell

I've learned that it's something that's never going to escape me, ... I've accepted it. That's no disrespect to my father, because I'm very proud to say that I'm Earl Campbell's son and nothing makes me happier. (But) I wanted to get out of my father's shadow and just be Tyler Campbell without people saying right away, 'You're Earl Campbell's son.' 

Richard Cobb

I've always thought this city was so beautiful, but the litter has given it a black eye. People have accepted it as our new reality and look at it as a problem that's bigger than they can handle. This is the mentality I'm working to change.

M. Wolfe

I wanted the experience to be the head coach of the track program, so I accepted the offer.

Diane Dean

I wanted to get involved in some theater group. I came down and tried out and they accepted me.

Hamid Hayat

advised the (witness) that he genuinely desired to attend a camp and strongly indicated in his final conversation with the (witness) that he had been accepted to 'training' and was going to attend the same after Ramadan in 2003.

Mike Verrill

The older guys have accepted the young kids and see what they can do. I think that had to happen.

Rick Parry

After considerable thought and discussion the board have decided to part company with the manager and Gerard has accepted it with typical good grace.

Frank Rizzo

After being accused of bribery (patronage jobs in exchange for being able to name candidates for District Attorney and City Controller) by Democratic City Chairman Peter Camiel, and being challenged by the Philadelphia Daily News to a lie detector test with himself, Commerce Director Harry Belinger, and Camiel, Rizzo accepted and said, "if this machine says a man lied, he lied." After the machine showed that Belinger and Rizzo were lying and Camiel was not, and he was asked about what he thought of lie detectors, he said, "that machine is full of crap.

Alex Haley

Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Jerome Kassirer

Teaching hospitals are big places, ... So it's much more difficult to inject that kind of behavior.

Jacques Chirac

Tempers need to cool, ... We can't have a law-free zone in the Republic. A lack of dialogue and an escalation of disrespectful behavior will lead to a dangerous situation.

Kathleen Harris

This is not a story where minorities are always worse off. It really depends on what behavior you are looking at.

Anita Barker

This is not the kind of behavior we expect.

David Temple

This is pretty bizarre behavior, but what you'll hear in testimony is that these are two pretty odd people.

Stephane Dujarric

The U.N. reiterates that it will strictly enforce a zero tolerance policy concerning unethical, unprofessional or fraudulent behavior for U.N. contractors,

Ten Eyck

This course is for people who are interested in the outdoors, behavior, natural history, cultural - these are the people that are going to like this.

Bob Hunter

You should call your insurance company and tell them, 'I've changed my driving behavior ? I've stopped driving to work' or, 'I'm using my car less,' and explain it to them and that you'd like to know if you qualify for a lower rate.

Kage Baker

What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is.

Thomas Heatherwick

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.

Joss Whedon

The Internet community started forming right when 'Buffy' started airing, and the notion of a show creator being anything other than a name people recognize on the screen was completely new.

Steve Nash

You replay and you rethink. The mistakes really hurt.

Daniel Alfredsson

I don't know if (the Bolts) wanted it more. We just made too many mistakes and we know we've got to play better as a team.

Ned Yost

He's as tough as they come. He doesn't make mistakes.

Dave Loos

I thought we were going to win. ... We made some mistakes but we played awfully hard.

Bill Gray

We made too many mistakes on special teams, ... That can't happen. We pride ourselves on special teams at Samford. So we've got to get that fixed.

Pavol Demitra

We made too many mistakes, it was everybody. We look like we are so nervous, like we don't want to play.

John Gibbons

He wasn't real sharp. But they have a good-hitting club. They make you pay if you make mistakes and that's what it was.

Ray Rivera

He made that one mistake. What can you do?

Jorge Rodriguez

I'm no angel. I make mistakes like every other human, but I try to do what's right.

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.

Barbara Jordan

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

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.

Ayn Rand

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

Ayn Rand

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

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.

Brian Sandoval

I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.

Brian Tracy

The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

Brian Tracy

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

Hermann Maier

This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.

Do Won Chang

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.