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.

Charles Dickens

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.

Charles Caleb Colton

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Charles Caleb Colton

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Alan Bennett

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

Tim Ebner

The one thing you saw today was a flow, it was up-and-down. When you play that way at that speed and that tempo, things are going to happen. They got the game-winner off one of our guys' skates but that's a credit to them because they got the puck to that point. Some days the bounces go your way and some days they don't.

Fernando Clavijo

The other team played hard; they executed a great free kick. You have to give them credit. We suffered some injuries but you have to give the credit to the team that played well.

Karen Hill

The people who have the weakest credit histories are in great danger of falling into a predatory environment.

Dick Wilcox

We struggled for rhythm the whole game. That's to their credit. We didn't play great but again, credit their defense. We had that one spurt, but they shut us down and we couldn't quite get over the hump.

Jay Wright

We struggled, and a lot of that credit goes to Marquette. But we finished it off, and that's a sign of a really good team.

Robert McKinley

We're in an environment right now where there's a lot of strain in the profitability of credit cards, ... Issuers are looking to hit you with fees and those sorts of things.

Jon Murphy

We started hitting shots. You credit the guys for not panicking at halftime (and) sticking with it.

James McCormack

When you've got credit growth that already exceeds (gross domestic product growth), that's a lot of new credit." ()