Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm not here to be in a position of trying to blame that board or to second guess. What I am here to say, it was not the present board that went forward with the Harcourt contract.

I'm not coaching my kids to take the initiative when the step onto the mat and I take the blame for that. I haven't instilled the desire in my kids to take the lead - and it was those close losses that ended up making the difference tonight.

Brian Sabean

I'm embarrassed we had to do it, ... The blame starts with me. We made choices, and they obviously didn't turn out.

I'm disgusted that we are engaged in a blame game. We needed a bill, and we got a food fight.

I kind of feel like I'm to blame for some of this because I could have done something, ... And I've had kids before I've known get hit by drunk drivers and things like that, and here's where I could have done something to prevent it.

They hit both 3-pointers in a row. We can't blame nobody but ourselves.

They just kinda blamed each other. 'That's not ours,' the city says, 'that's not ours.' The state said, 'that's not ours.' It hasn't been done.

They just chipped away. They came at us every inning. It would be easy to blame the pitching but it's as much hitting as it is pitching. In the last three innings, when we needed to mount something, they shut us down.

Everybody is to blame it transcends administration. It transcends party.

Everybody is pointing the finger. You cannot put all the blame on (Nee). We have to take some of the blame.

Everybody shares the blame here, ... but when you talk about the mightiest government in the world, that's a ludicrous and lame excuse. You're FEMA, and you're the big dog. And you weren't prepared either.

Eleanor Clift

The blame game is a derogatory term for accountability and we've had failures on the part of government and our leaders at the local level, at the state level and at the presidential level.

The blame for the war is Saddam Hussein's, ... Inside Politics.

Helen Zille

The blame for the current state of the fire services must fall squarely on the mayor.

Mick Garris

The book isn't set in the Sixties, ... That was something I must take credit or blame for.

Nothing is set in stone, but developers are seeming to build these cookie cutter sub-divisions there are not creative. There's no old New England look, like a Colonial worth $300,000 next to a bungalow or another house worth $500,000. They all look the same, and I'd like to see something different, but that's me personally. You can't blame developers trying to make a profit, and you can't stop them. Everything has to be the same because material is bought in bulk.

It's very frustrating, employees are very angry- and I don't blame them. I'd be having heart failure as well.

Douglas Brinkley

It's too little too late. He's still going to get the blame.

Miranda July

I wanted to talk about that and show that without having to just have a vocabulary of blame or shame -- to say that it can be both really scary and OK, ... It can also be sad and exciting and even kind of fulfilling. It's really not a good conversation to leave to ped-ophiles. It's much better to actually talk about it without pathology.

It was a decision that was wrong, and I'll take the blame for that.

It took Santorum more than a week to dig up some year-old obscure quote that blames our military rather than challenging the administration's conduct of this war.

They blame him now for having frozen the manuscripts. It made them crumble all the worse.

They blamed it on an employee whom they claimed to have let go.

The US, in fact, is to blame for this gap as the Muslim world cannot tolerate its double standards.

Tom Zbikowski

They went with their judgment and you can't blame them.

Bill White

They want to blame us for disagreeing with them, ... It's a typical ploy. ... The police were the ones who turned this into a mistake. They thought they would embarrass us.

The Government is to blame and they can't get away from it. If they ignore the Ombudsman, there will be hell to pay.

Adam McKay

Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.

Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem.

We shouldn't try to blame humans for all of this.

Steve Martin

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

Steve Martin

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

Barry Eisler

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.