Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Gent

When I was an executive ... relationships within the company and at board level where characterized by openness and trust. We were mercifully free of company politics and blame culture.

Richard Yamarone

Ultimately the buck stops with the president. If people are upset about the economy and want to blame someone, that someone is probably going to be the president,

Mark Roman

Ultimately, I have to get the guy down. I'm a safety, that's my job. I'll shoulder the blame as far as that goes. But we just blew the call.

Greg Johnson

Ultimately, first and foremost, you're looking out for the well-being of your family. That comes before the game or a possible suspension or anything else. I don't know all the details (about Davis), but I have no problem with a guy going up there and trying to protect his family. He seemed to be very much in control. He was just concerned. How can you blame the guy?

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.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

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 Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Alan Clark

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Mike Harris

We want them to understand we're here to help and do everything we can,

Javier Solana

We want to see how we can help organize the transfer.

Chogyam Trungpa

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

Bill Hamilton

We know you want to do the smart money thing, ... We hope you want to be heroes, and we'll help you do that.

Michael Young

We know we're responsible for a lot our team's offense, and that's something that we take seriously. We take a lot of pride in being productive and helping the team win.

Jason Richardson

We know if we are beat, somebody's going to be back there. In the past, it wasn't like that. If you pressured up on somebody and you got beat, you were getting dunked on. This year, we're helping each other out.

Amanda Radovich

We know how to come back and that will help us in the end.

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Noel Redding

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

Bo Bice

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

Blake Shelton

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

Bill Parcells

You are what your record says you are.

Beyonce Knowles

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

Dee Dee Warwick

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

Dee Dee Ramone

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

Alan Pardew

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

Alan Hansen

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Alan Hansen

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Alain Prost

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Alain Prost

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Alain Prost

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

Al Michaels

There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.

Al Michaels

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.

Buddy Hackett

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

Antonio Villaraigosa

You all know I love L.A., but tonight I really love L.A.,

Dee Dee Ramone

Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

Demi Lovato

I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

Daniel Handler

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

Bill Maher

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight...

Bobby Frasor

Just watching him out there tonight was something special.

Buck Showalter

Kam made a lot of friends tonight with his teammates, getting them on and off the field. That's always good, especially after a late-night arrival.

Dusty Baker

We've got to make a decision, probably tonight or tomorrow. We can't go short-handed.

Charles Tillman

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.