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.

Richard McGrath

We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses.

Luke Pasqualino

Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think.

Michael Strahan

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.

M. Night Shyamalan

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

Michael Farr

The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.

James Awad

The positive today is that oil is coming down, the negative is that the housing numbers are worse than expected.

Mark Potok

The point of doing all of this is so that we as a society can move forward. And the time is really coming when we really are going to turn and face the future.

Terry Borr

The pleasant surprise was how our defensive line played. One question I had coming out of preseason practice was how we would play defensively.

Carly Rager

We are seeing a lot of the taffeta coming back with side pleats and drapes.

Whitney Ransome

We want them to be independent and responsible and be on their own. At the same time, we want to view them, in some cases, as extensions of ourselves.

Ron Reagan

My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'

Kevin Cramer

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

Tyra Banks

I look up to Martha Stewart, and I love that she has product lines that are true extensions of her brand.

Barry Hyman

Since I filed an extension and probably will be late getting it, I will probably just go spend it. Nothing special, I would just say probably some jewelry for my spouse.

Doug Kosarek

This project will be an extension of our on-going partnership with those colleges. It will provide students with a real-life setting.

Frida Gustavsson

Fragrance is, to me, something very personal; because it is something you wear every day, it should represent you and be an extension of your style.

Curtis Jackson

I wanted to do something as an extension of my passion for music. My aim for the STREET by 50 On-Ear Wired Headphone range is to present music as it's meant to be heard, in studio-mastered sound.

Luis Federico Leloir

A logical extension of our work on glycogen was to investigate the formation of starch in plants.

Charles Dickens

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Charles Dickens

"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

Charles Dickens

It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!

Alan Watts

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Alain Robert

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Al Lopez

I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Chloe Sevigny

If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

Vicki Flotta

We're just trying to provide a healthier alternative to going home and sitting on the couch.

Gillian Cross

Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn't like to generalise. But I think refugees from the U.K. would probably be healthier and better fed than those from many other countries.

Evelyn Glennie

As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy... the diary is pretty full.

Felipe Alou

He seemed to be healthier today, his legs and everything. He said he needed work and threw 52 pitches.

Clare Balding

Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.

Chris Bentley

People are healthier and living longer, so it is unfair that they stop working simply because they turn 65,

Dennis Gartman

A rally such as we've witnessed in the past week needs a correction. The market shall be healthier in the new year because of it.

Zac Taylor

I feel healthier for some reason. I feel like I'm moving better and I feel stronger. I might not look that way, but I notice it in myself.

Charlie Tahan

It's healthier if you kind of just walk away from things and not really care about what happens.

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.

David Shuster

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

David Schwimmer

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

David Koechner

All of those measures of relationships that you have in your life help feed your and inform your ability to act.

Dave Barry

Seriously? You won’t help me?” “Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Alan Watts

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you.

Justin Davis

We want to sort of put this out there that this is an institutional problem and not just one incident.

Chip Kidd

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

David Seabury

Those who fume at their problems become their victims.

Ai Weiwei

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

Bill Richardson

Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world

Eartha Kitt

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

No matter how many times you have slipped or fallen, rise up... You are stronger than you realize.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine.

Edmund Waller

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Bob Marley

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

Hayley Williams

Never! Oh my God... I would have slit my wrists!

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.