Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is tempting to blame the softness of core sales on the surge in gas prices, but we think it is too soon for that.

a calculated campaign to blame gay men for the church's own criminal conduct in fostering and covering up decades of sex abuse.

It's key for us to score first, and we didn't do that tonight. I'm proud of the way my boys kept fighting. But I didn't do a good enough job getting them prepared. I take the blame for that.

Subodh Kumar

It's easy because the euro is so visible. And besides, in the tech sector, you can't really blame oil prices.

Subodh Kumar

It's easy because the euro is so visible, ... And besides, in the tech sector, you can't really blame oil prices.

It's a time-consuming process. It would not be unusual to find most people do not want to do that indefinitely. It's also a process where the rewards are largely internal; school board members get an inordinate share of the blame when things don't go well and very little of the credit when things do go well.

It's a team thing. I'll definitely take the blame for my mistakes.

It's a team loss, but I blame myself, too, today. We win as a team and we lose as a team, and this loss was very disappointing. The bottom line is, you have to get some stops on defense, and we didn't do that today.

Larry Sabato

It was callous trying to shift the blame to the victim. His entire PR staff should be fired just for that.

It's definitely made a huge difference, especially in times of trouble. We didn't necessarily have a couple good series in Dallas, and it would have been easy to point the finger and blame it on something. But having the camaraderie that we do and knowing where everybody is going to be, we were able to fight through it and have a great fourth quarter.

It's hard to blame productivity growth for a lot of manufacturing job losses.

Roger McNamee

It's hard to blame him for calling it quits. I think this is a very big challenge.

Brodie Croyle

It seemed like we'd get something going, then we'd stall out. If you're going to be a good offense, you can't do that. You have to give a lot of credit to our defense, but that's by far the worst practice we've had. It starts with me, so I'll take the blame for it.

Tom Johnson

It was kind of surprising that nobody from (Southern Miss) got drafted. I don't know who's to blame for that, but it was kind of crazy.

It was my fault Kate went in during the second quarter. I saw our lead going and it scared me a little bit. I take the blame for that. I should have never put her in.

Craig Fugate

It's easy to play the blame game, find a scapegoat, but no one person could be responsible for the challenges we face and the lives lost.

It should not have come down to the last week before enrollment started. There's probably enough blame to go around.

It's a very crushing loss for us because it's between 4-4 and 3-5 in the conference. I blame it on myself for the decisions I made.

Gilbert Arenas

That's the coach's decision. I'm not the coach. I'm not the GM. . . . If that's his excuse for missing practices - to blame me - then I'm strong enough to take the responsibility.

Gilbert Arenas

That's the coach's decision. I'm not the coach. I'm not the GM, ... . . . If that's his excuse for missing practices - to blame me - then I'm strong enough to take the responsibility.

Everybody is to blame it transcends administration. It transcends party.

Everybody is pointing the finger. You cannot put all the blame on (Nee). We have to take some of the blame.

That's not my style to blame the officiating, but the game was obviously called a different way than it was in New Jersey. Now it's up to us to make the adjustments.

Even our older guys were missing tackles, so I can't blame the entire thing on our youngsters.

Blame - The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures.

blameless ignorance. It's an unfortunate sign of the times.

Bob Dylan

Blame it on a simple twist of fate.

Blame heaped on planners and those said to be responsible for unreliable intelligence.

Everybody was told to get out, and they didn't. How do you blame a little old lady in a nursing home?

The number of murders in the U.S. compared with the rest of the world is astronomical. I blame mostly the availability of guns.

Then turn your back upon them for you are not to blame; / And continue to remind, for surely the reminder profits the believers.

It's like a pro quarterback who wants to keep going. I don't blame the dancers, but we do try to combat that.

James A. Baldwin

When the South has trouble with its Negroes when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.