Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Josh Beckett

If he chooses to come back, I have no problem with that at all. You can't blame the manager. It was us. There were a lot of game we should have won this year.

Brian Billick

If I'm a fan, I'm not going to miss that game. I'm not going to miss the chance to watch one of the great players of all time come out and compete live. I don't know if it will be his last game, but if it is, and you have a ticket and didn't go, you have no one to blame but yourself. You'll lie about it and say, 'Oh, I went. I saw Brett.' But you'll be a lying dog.

I can blame only one person. The government. This Carla Martin. What did we teach her in school? She knows the rules. She didn't play by them.

Alex Rodriguez

I can only say that I need to elevate my game; I'm not happy with it. I'm one of the guys to blame for what's been happening here.

I don't think fatigue was a factor in all honesty. I was really proud of our players tonight. I think we played a very solid second half. We went with our two smaller forwards playing for a period of time there. We were down nine and we did a lot of really positive things. In all honesty, if fatigue ever is a factor I'm never using it as an excuse. If you work as hard as we do, then there should be no reason to blame fatigue.

Jean-Claude Juncker

With hindsight, it is always easy to blame everyone else.

And when that happens, the first thing people tend to do is blame the coach, or blame the people that are picking players. And once you get into a finger-pointing mode of who took that first-round draft pick, or why did you let this player go, it tends to create divisiveness between those three people.

Dr. Lee wanted to be a 100 percent certain that nothing could change. It was 99.9 percent, but she wanted to make sure about that other 0.1 percent. I don't blame her for that. She just wanted to be precise.

Every time this has happened, in my view, Metra has blamed the victim.

E. P. Thompson

Every time the taxes went up, we got blamed for it. But our tax rate at the school district hasn't changed over a decade.

Even our older guys were missing tackles, so I can't blame the entire thing on our youngsters.

Blame - The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures.

blameless ignorance. It's an unfortunate sign of the times.

Bob Dylan

Blame it on a simple twist of fate.

Blame heaped on planners and those said to be responsible for unreliable intelligence.

Everybody was told to get out, and they didn't. How do you blame a little old lady in a nursing home?

Maria Semple

I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.

Totally, totally unacceptable. You can't blame anyone...the players need to take responsibility for their actions. There is no explanation for that kind of play.

Jacque Jones

This one's tough. I take a lot of blame.

Jacque Jones

This one's tough, and I take a lot of blame. I feel like I should have come through in those situations.

Bill Watterson

The whole pleasure for me is having the opportunity to do a comic strip for a living, and now that I've finally got that I'm not going to give it away. . . . Any time somebody else has their hand in the ink it's changing the product, and I enjoy the responsibility for this product. I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.

The winds picked up sooner than expected. Blame the meteorologists.

Ellis Hobbs

The way I see it is, each man has to be accountable for himself. But to sit here and blame everything on him, from an outside perspective, that's wrong. Because it's never one man out there. It's an 11-man game.

We just had no life to start with. I'm the coach and I'll take the blame for it.

When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes.

What's going to happen is that county council and the county executive will be able to blame the judge. I think that's what's going to happen -- they want to blame the judge for reassessment. That's not leadership, that's hiding,

Eddie Jones

We got happy just taking the threes. After a tough game (a 95-89 loss at Detroit on Friday), you may not have the leg strength. That was key. We were trying to penetrate and kick. The shots didn't go down. Just don't blame it on shooting. You can never blame a loss on shooting. It's what you do defensively.

You are seeing a major price correction, and it is being blamed on anything you see, including ... inflationary pressures.

You cannot blame only the goalie ... but the team drives from the goalie.

You can't blame the track. You have to have spinners who can turn the ball.

You can't blame the officiating. No excuses. We just didn't get it done.