Famous Quotes & Sayings

Afghan Proverb

The person sins, then blames Satan for it

George Whalin

We're continuing to see retailers cite the weather for either making or breaking their sales numbers. Frankly, I think is an excuse tailored to satisfy Wall Street. Wall Street is a little more forgiving if a major retailer blames weather for disappointing sales.

Bob Hoskins

When you get to my age, what you want is the cameo. You get paid a lot of money. You fly in for a couple of weeks. Everybody treats you like the crown jewels. It's all great and if the film turns out to be a load of s - -, nobody blames you.

Andrea Yates

One side of me blames her because she did it, but the other side says she didn't because that wasn't her.

Paul Light

He's become such a lightning rod. Much of the public blames him for everything that's gone wrong in the Bush administration.

Henrik Zetterberg

He given us a chance to win the games. No one blames Manny.

John Spratt

The president blames the disappearance of the surplus on excessive spending, but all of the extra spending since he came to office is spending that he either initiated or approved,

R. Robinson

Robinson's Law - Whenever someone in public office blames the press, the bastard is guilty!

Howard Newton

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

Ellen Smith

The people who were inspecting the mine will not be the people conducting the investigation.

Paul Jensen

unprofessional conduct not related to the quality of patient care.

Leon Cubillas

We're in a position where we either spend well over $100,000 to conduct our own election or we join with the county and share in the election cost.

Doug Mosier

We're making criminal enterprises look to different means to conduct their business. We see it as a desperation move.

B. F. Skinner

We respect the prerogative of debate organizers to conduct the debate sponsors as they see fit. We would welcome Russ Potts if the organizers wanted to invite him.

Sheriff Norman

We're so fortunate that we can now conduct an investigation into how this thing got going rather than have to explain to the victims' family members why something like this could have happened. I don't know what we would have done if something like this had really happened.

Joshua Bell

So many times, I've seen conductors that, every time they have a thought, they stop the orchestra and say it, and I can see the orchestra rolling their eyes and saying, 'Oh, God, he stopped again.' So there's a technique to rehearsing.

Ross Perot

Should a person who's the most powerful person in the world conduct his personal life in such a way that would be a poor example to our children?

Howard Friedman

Short-term suspensions for egregious conduct create a serious problem. It sends the wrong message to officers.

Jim Nicholson

We want to treat them with great dignity and respect,

Louise Leakey

When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital photograph of the specimen, so we could essentially put it back on the surface, exactly where we found it.

Bernardo Bertolucci

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

Rick Dickson

We want to represent Tulane everywhere; our goal is to give hope to everyone, ... If we do that, and do it with dignity and serve the greater purpose, it'd be the greatest victory any of us had ever been a part of.

Jim Shaw

We have seen an increase in the pace of digital phone sales during the early part of the third quarter.

Bill McKibben

When you are in a hole, stop digging!

Beth Moore

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

Beth Moore

The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.

Lennon Parham

The thing is, if you follow whatever meal you have with Coke, it eats up the other things. It helps with the digestion of it.

Charles Stanley

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Akhmad Kadyrov

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

Chris Christie

The first thing we need to do to make America stronger is to strengthen our military.

Chris Christie

We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.

Chief Seattle

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

Chesty Puller

There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.

Chesty Puller

Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".

Chester W. Nimitz

Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.

Chester W. Nimitz

I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

Donald Barthelme

I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

Don DeLillo

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

David Ogilvy

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

Joseph Joubert

Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.

Heinz Guderian

When the situation is obscure, attack

Horace

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Horace

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

Ted Cruz

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

John Milton

Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.

Robert Anderson

I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

Khaleda Zia

Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

Tom Watson

We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.

Brian Koslow

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

Brian Koslow

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

Samuel Smiles

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Josefa Iloilo

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

John Metcalf

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

James E. Faust

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Alan Bullock

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Alain Prost

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Al Seckel

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

David Sedaris

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

David Sedaris

..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch

David Ginola

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Dave Barry

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

Bryant Gumbel

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

Bobby Cannavale

The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special," those shows, I remember watching those and the music was just on; it was the greatest radio stations.