Famous Quotes & Sayings

Action Bronson

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

The parties must stop hurling blame on each other and learn to be mutually tolerant in order to sustain democracy.

Doug Larson

The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice

The opposition is not outside the process. They can't influence the process. The government, however, now has no one to blame for its policies.

Rhona Mitra

The other girls used to blame me whenever they got caught for something, so all the parents wrote in and said they didn't want me at the school.

Bruce Bochy

This upset a lot of our players. And I don't blame them.

Sheldon Souray

There has been questionable calls all year long. It's black, white and gray this year, the officiating. You can't blame them, but is it frustrating? Yeah, it is frustrating.

Justin Morneau

We said we couldn't wait to get home, that all those losses we could blame on the road. We're glad we're here. It's a big confidence builder for us.

Why do so many elderly people blame the youth on society's mistakes?

Those who will not heed themselves perish. To understand this principle is not to be impatient, not to reproach fate, not to blame others. He who understands the doctrine of self-help blames himself for failure.

Li Keqiang

Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility.

John Cole

We can't put all three phases of the game together. There isn't one phase to blame necessarily.

John Simpson

When people blame words they are actually blaming the society that uses them. Dictionaries just reflect the words that society uses.

We can only blame this one on ourselves. We gave them that game at the end.

We just felt that we were way too up and down. We spread the blame equally. Everybody did something bad.

You have to make some tough decisions. We've been struggling for five weeks, and I just feel like we need to make a change. I told Doug I feel badly. Everybody on offense should, because he's the one who gets the blame for it.

Mark V. Hurd

The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.

Joseph Brodsky

The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything.

Leonardo da Vinci

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

Leonardo da Vinci

I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

Naomi Campbell

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

I cannot blame the team for what they did. They figured that this is what they need to do in order to I guess to, I don't know, not to say to help him out but just to clean up some of the issues that have been happening to this organization.

I cannot blame certain senators if they are so determined to use all of their time and energy to block this genuine outpouring of support from the people because they will already become irrelevant once the People's Initiative succeeds in paving the way for a parliamentary system of government.

I can't blame them for anything they feel. They lost a wonderful man. I have a family that lost their son for a year, but he's coming home, so if they want to blame the police I can't fault them.

Peter Tosh

I can't blame people, at this rate, for not wanting to volunteer,

Luis Sojo

He blamed himself. I think he took it personal. ... He said, 'I'm sorry, guys.' ... He felt like he let us down.

Offensively, we've been struggling early in the year. We didn't have a lot of guys on base. When we do get hits, we don't have guys on base. We made a lot of mistakes and there were plays we should have made. We can't blame it on the weather. They made all the plays and we didn't.

Often, things happen in clusters that have no explanation except a chance occurrence. People like to blame it on radio waves or something. It's a natural human tendency to want to connect the dots, but most of the time there are not connections.

No self-respecting cow would graze here and I wouldn't blame her,

After the emotional drain of last night, we really struggled to come out ready to play. I guess I have to take the blame for that because we were simply not ready. It was a good effort, we just weren't prepared at the start of the game.

After rounding up all the usual bearish suspects to blame for the market's disappointing performance this year, I've narrowed the problem to the price of oil. Investors fear that higher energy costs must eventually depress earnings growth.

Ryan Smyth

Once you got a lead that late in the game you've got to do the smart things. I'll take the blame on that one. I turned it over and it ended up in our net.