Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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,

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.

Afghan Proverb

The person sins, then blames Satan for it

Henrik Zetterberg

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

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.

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.

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.

Richard Boucher

Ms Tanaka said she understood the need for the United States to pursue this area, to conduct the research,

Shannon McSweeney

Mountain Creek is not financially liable for the conduct of our patrons.

Ian Martin

One would expect them to be respectful of United Nations standards in their conduct at home.

Brad Mitchell

If, after conducting market research, we find the public wants Christopher, we may revisit the decision.

Flavio Briatore

I was at no time directly or indirectly involved in the conduct of these negotiations.

Scott Shapiro

I would be surprised if they were able to do that. In my interpretation I don't think Sidney's conduct has gotten to the level of violating the morals clause.

Manmohan Singh

If we have to go back to UN Security Council resolutions, there is no point conducting this dialogue,

John Swenson

I have maps and lots of pictures, ... of what was there. So I frequently conduct tours. There's a lot to see if you know where to look.

Becky Doherty

She wasn't afraid. She was a participant. Her conduct before, during and after tells you she was.

Christie Hefner

Magazines have not been distributing digital subscriptions for very long. The traction for digital magazines has come in the last year and a half.

Christie Hefner

Magazines have not been distributing digital subscriptions for very long, ... The traction for digital magazines has come in the last year and a half.

Tim Shea

May you grow in dignity and with grace.

Tuna Amobi

Media operators that do not have a well- articulated digital strategy do so at their own peril.

Juan Somavia

Occupational safety and health is vital to the dignity of work.

Shivan Barwari

My dignity is worth more than four dollars.

Roger Cook

Nurseries dig up fresh stock in the fall.

Ken Hitchcock

No. You had one team playing reckless and one team trying to get away with playing careful. We didn't get away with it. We had to dig in.

Eric Scheirer

Neither digital security nor lawsuits will stop Internet theft of content.

Gerhard Schroeder

Military options can not help. We have experienced it,

Peggy Noonan

More was needed in terms of sending a US military presence into New Orleans.

Denis Healey

Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

Denis Hayes

Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of the reason was that the groups that cared about wilderness didn't talk with the groups that were trying to stop freeways from cutting through inner cities, and neither of them talked to the folks who wanted to stop the military from dumping Agent Orange on Vietnam.

Dilma Rousseff

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who does not value the Brazilian democracy.

Edgar Mitchell

I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the public. And that got my attention very, very rapidly.... The first hand experiences of these credible witnesses that, now in advanced years are anxious to tell their story, we can't deny that, and the evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident, and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that crash site.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

Eileen collins

Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'

Ehud Barak

But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

Joseph Joubert

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

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.

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.

David Ogilvy

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

Horace

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Horace

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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

John Hope

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

James Boswell

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Samuel Smiles

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

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.

Josefa Iloilo

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

Robert Frank

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Pierre de Fermat

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

Jim Calhoun

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

Rudi Giuliani

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

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Motto

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Japanese Proverb

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Justin Kirk

I would rather be part of something that is entertaining than realistic.

Suzanne Farrell

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

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Meghan Steiner

I did everything I could for it. I was working out the whole time. I took calcium pills.

David Anders

When we said go, they went. They took our words seriously.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

John Enos

I got right in my truck and took off to Dayton.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.

Dhani Jones

My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own.

Solange Knowles

I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable.

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Bobby Petrino

No, no, we don't like having the bye week right after the opener,

Mike Holmgren

I was going to come out and wing it around. It had nothing to do with the week before.

Tom Chambers

I wish we could have been there a week before,

S. Walker

If we play like that every week we will win a lot of games.

Scott Collie

She will be out for at least a week ? anything after that is just speculation at this point.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Charlie Batch

I don't know. You just have to take it week by week, day by day at this point. All I can do is just be ready.

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.