Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?

Catherine the Great

I praise loudly and I blame softly.

Afghan Proverb

The person sins, then blames Satan for it

Ken Khachigian

The point here is to move forward, to get the debate moving from fault and blame to solutions.

William Shakespeare

Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be

Bill Parcells

Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.

Wendy Murphy

We also want not to blame women. We always want to make clear it's always the criminal's fault, 100 percent.

Rick Carlisle

We have no one to blame but ourselves. You play a lousy third quarter and give up a bunch of turnovers, you're going to tempt fate with that kind of play over a 12-minute period.

Rich McBride

We have no one to blame but ourselves. Now is the only time to prove ourselves. Otherwise, we'll go home.

Britt Bonneau

We've all seen flashes of what Joel can do. But, this year, he's just been so much more consistent.

Steve DiPatri

We were a step slow tonight, but we were able to grind it out. We show flashes of being a very good team, but other times we show how young we are.

Randy Dunton

We're just immature, and we're not where we need to be in terms of competitive greatness. Yet, there's times when there's flashes of very solid basketball. That's where we've been. I'm not happy with it, and we're very disappointed that two or three players couldn't step their game up and make the plays they needed to make when the game was in the balance.

Eric Jones

We've shown flashes and made strides, which we're proud of. But we have a ways to go, too.

Russ Guffey

We had some moments and we has some flashes. But flashes are not going to get it in a rivalry game.

Margaret Anderson

I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Eric Turner

If I see her at the game, that's when everything flashes back. That's hard for me. Every time I see her, I want to walk the other way, because she's stronger than me.

Bud Foster

He's a guy that shows flashes but just needs to be consistent. When we've been really good, we've had depth, so we'd like to have that fourth guy. I'd like to see him put it together (today).

Luke Reigel

He showed flashes of just how good he's going to be.

Charles Stross

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

Alan Pardew

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

Alan Pardew

Shut your noise, you old c***!

Alan Page

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

Alan Page

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

Alan Hansen

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Alan Hansen

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

Alan Green

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.

Alan Green

Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty.

Benny Hinn

When I taught the little gods doctrine, I was using Scriptures that didn't fit.

Charles Spurgeon

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

Charles Spurgeon

The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.

Xenophanes

Men create the gods in their own image.

Neil Gaiman

One thing that I get from a lot of people with 'American Gods' is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up.

Philip Yancey

In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.

Michael Redd

This says a lot about this team. We've been up and down all year. The gods are with us.

Howard Bloom

Nearly every tribe and nearly every human being has gods. Belief in gods is all over the place. It's universal. It squeaks and squoozes from every pore of humanity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

David Strathairn

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

David Parry

We stopped for some plays that weren't worthy of being looked at.

Herb Trimpe

When I looked at the other artists when I first started at Marvel, I was surrounded by giants. It was very intimidating.

Daryl Hall

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

Troy Dolan

When I was a freshman, I didn't wrestle as well here as I thought I could. I looked up at the stands and saw lots of people.

Terry Trippler

United just looked in the rearview mirror, and they do not want to go back from where they came.

Dave Bautista

Yes, I am physical but never go looking for fights. I have been in my share of them but never looked for them.

Derrick Byars

Man, I looked up at the clock, was that right? That was kind of weird too, looking up there and seeing they only had 30.

Carrie Zaitz

When I looked through that first telescope my paradigm shifted up course. I realized it was a really big universe and I wanted to know all about it.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Raymond James

What they're saying is the conventional firms are waiting too long,

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Tom Ferguson

We're just saying we want him to stay. He's saying he doesn't want any more than the teachers get.

Burke Stinson

We're just saying 'time out' to technology until the new year.

Cassie Johnson

We're getting a lot of e-mails saying they wish they could watch curling more often. They can't wait for Vancouver.

Anna Kendrick

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.

Daniel Handler

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

Frank Vargo

We've seen this movie before. What Treasury is saying is pretty much of a rerun of what it said back in May.

Brian Dawkins

I will never have my best season.

Steve Spurrier

Six and five, ... We thought 6-5 would be a wonderful season for this team.

Richard Walker

We've still a lot to do before the season starts.

W. S. Gilbert

She's been killing it all season and is only getting better.

Walter Brower

The PD is over now. We've got a new season to play now, and we need to go 3-0 to get to where we want to be.

Derrick Brooks

(We) still have a lot to accomplish. That's something to think about when the season is over.

Ashley Scott

I worked with her on the second season of Dark Angel in Vancouver, one of my first real jobs.

Ricky Ford

This season has really been a tale of two seasons for me,

Dema Kovalenko

We didn't come out to play, we didn't come out with any urgency. We've got to do better because, if we do this in the playoffs, the season is over.

Rick Taylor

We want them and I think we have shown you that.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not a one-trick pony. We've shown it all year that we're not a one-trick pony.

Alexander Johnson

We're better than that, and we've shown it.

Ted Johnson

shown you no hair, no fibers, no eyewitnesses. Not one.

Ra'anan Gissin

We've shown what we can do with settlements.

Joyce Smith

She's shown us things we didn't know about.

Stephen Hawking

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

Gail Begley

He just didn't show up and he still hasn't shown up.

Heather Stewart

I think we've shown that we're a team that can compete.

Martin Freeman

Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.

Don Marquis

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

Jan Ullrich

Today, I had trouble because it was slippery and dangerous,

Tom Moran

Whatever happens, this should not slip by unnoticed.

Ron Dennis

I wouldn't wish anything on anybody, but Alonso could slip over in the bath, couldn't he,

Don Wright

If they don't do it in a timely (manner) there is at least $30,000 that will slip away.

Donnie Edwards

We let one slip away. We've got to find a way to make plays. At least we will have Gates.

Greg Puhalski

We let one slip away. We didn't play smart with the lead.

Dan Uggla

We let it slip away. Once again, another tough one.

Chris Colfer

I can sing and dance. I can smile - a lot.

David Prowse

I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!

Mark Cuban

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

Edith Wharton

Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.

Audrey Hepburn

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.

Denis Waitley

SMILE! In every language, in every culture - it is the light in your window that tells people there's a caring, sharing individual inside and it's the universal code for "I'm O. K. - You're O. K., too!"

Denis Waitley

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Dennis Miller

Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.

Charlie Chaplin

I have Many Problems in My Life. But my leaps don`t know that. They always smile

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Tancredo Neves

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.