Blame Quotations | Page 6

Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.

Would I like to have a man like Buffett on the board? You bet. But can I blame him for going off? Not at all. But Buffett, with the amount of shares he owns, will still have an influence.

Would you blame him if he had interest in Felix Hernandez? I'm a guy who worked my tail off to get Carlos Delgado.

No blame, no hate - why no communication?

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.

I praise loudly and I blame softly.

Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming.

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good

Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?

You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart.

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

We accept blame, ... We offer our condolences to the village, but I will tell you the surveillance video shows no children there. But we're not trying to avoid blame in this.

We're making fun of people who pick ridiculous targets to blame anything about what's going on in their lives, so Canada was just the perfect, ridiculous, innocuous choice for a target.

When we blame, we give away our power.

There is no magic wand to wave over this team to make them a contending team. (Isiah) will persevere through the rather difficult time now and you will see that people will be lauding his job later on. Now, they're looking at the record and going 'boo.' I don't blame them. I guess in some ways it's to be expected.

We're so uptight half the darn time. And you can't blame us. We're playing at a level where we had three big games against three great teams and we needed to play hard. We played hard; we didn't make shots. The shots will come. We can't stress here and think we're not going to make any more shots for the rest of our lives.

We're spoiled with the crowds we get here. We can't blame the crowd for us being dull, because we didn't give them much to get excited about. But I expected it. It was a sandwich game.

There is no question that the fourth quarter was a bummer, even with that upward revision. Even if we blame temporary factors, it was a one-quarter bust.

Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

What hurt us is that we haven't had a game in 10 days. We were out of connection, and it showed. I blame myself for that. We were out of sync but were proud of keeping it close. We're a better team than this, and we know it.

We were supposed to switch everything. We went small so that we could switch. I'll take the blame on this one; it was on me.

When we had $10 a barrel a year ago, it was the market that was making the determination, ... To blame 'big oil' on profiteering is a little misleading ... the market is setting the price, not U.S. 'big oil.'

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

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,

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.

We know how difficult it is and we don't blame the smoker, but we do want to have messages out there that are motivational and get people sort of going on the track of try and try again until they succeed (in quitting smoking),

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?

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.

Dr. Lee wanted to be a 100 percent certain that nothing could change. It was 99.9 percent, but she wanted to make sure about that other 0.1 percent. I don't blame her for that. She just wanted to be precise.

Each is a shared memory for people of different ages, ... It's fashionable -- almost compulsory at the TV festival -- to knock the number of repeats on TV and blame the laziness of broadcasters. But I believe there is a real public service in keeping these memories alive.

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

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

Doubles play for sure is number one and I blame myself for that. We didn't walk in with optimal physical and mental strength.

Could Washington himself speak, would he cast the blame of that sectionalism upon us, who sustain his policy, or upon you who repudiate it?

Customers can largely blame themselves and not the vendors for these problems. Users have been clamoring for a one-stop shop for all their security needs because they had so much difficulty integrating all these disparate technologies.

Even though Europe may be the only one seen pushing this legislation, environmental product compliance is here to stay and is catching on globally. Don't blame the EU for the legislation. If not Europe, China or another major market would be the starting point. The public is demanding products that are more environmentally friendly and the markets are expanding for green products. If your company has not started to think this way and adjust its product lines accordingly, best do it now, otherwise it will soon be too late.

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

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

Everybody would like to see the patch as soon as possible, but I can't blame Microsoft for wanting to test it thoroughly. However, if a widespread worm is found before next Tuesday, I do believe they will break the cycle and just release the patch.

I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.

The timing of the bank sale could have been better, but you can't blame management for the timing. Mellon did not, and could not, see that interest rates would fall to 45-year lows right after the sale of the bank.

The winds picked up sooner than expected. Blame the meteorologists.

The whole pleasure for me is having the opportunity to do a comic strip for a living, and now that I've finally got that I'm not going to give it away. . . . Any time somebody else has their hand in the ink it's changing the product, and I enjoy the responsibility for this product. I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.

You are on-call seven days a week and all you get is aggravation. I can't blame anybody in a voluntary capacity walking away.

Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem.

You can't blame China for everything. There are a lot of problems that manufacturers have to face.

You can't blame him because he's so successful at it, but when he does come up against the world No.1, he's got to do more. That's got to weigh on your noggin a little bit.

You can't blame it all on energy because the trade deficit excluding petroleum rose faster than the overall deficit. The main culprit once again continues to be that imports are growing faster than exports.

You can't blame it on any one player. It was a team effort for a loss. I don't think we've played any worse.

You can't blame Mother Nature if your business did poorly at the Shore. Unless it was so hot people didn't want to go to the beach.

You can't blame people for being inconsistent parents if they're receiving inconsistent advice.

You can't blame people for thinking we were going to struggle. But at the same time, last year we were 5-11 and we weren't the worst team. We had a lot of people hurt last year. Our team was kind of dismantled.

You can't blame the bear. They've probably been hitting those apple orchards for 100 years. Apples are high in sugar and make their way into fat stores. We have several bears who gain weight over the winter.

You can't blame the immigrant. All he's looking to do is improve life for his family, so he will take these jobs that Americans can't or won't do for slave wages.

You can't blame the officiating. No excuses. We just didn't get it done.

You can't blame the track. You have to have spinners who can turn the ball.

You cannot blame only the goalie ... but the team drives from the goalie.

Todd played really well for us inside. That opened up our outside shooters and we usually shoot it pretty well. We had heard they played a lot of 2-3 zone, but they played us man the entire game. Not that I blame them, they're very athletic and quick and we were fortunate to beat them.

We're taught as young kids: Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He didn't just try to blame someone else.

The Tea Party elites believe government is evil. Everything about government is bad, and they blame all problems, even non-economic problems, problems that were caused by the private sector, on government.

The shuttle could never do what the agency tried to make it do, and so they traded off safety. I don't blame the managers; they were presented with an impossible job.

These debates on blame alone won't get us anywhere with most people. Complaints about 9/11 investigations fell on deaf ears.

The seeding was probably the most disappointing. We felt we should have got a three or two. But we have no one to blame but ourselves.

The single thing the journals can do is make the authors visibly responsible for the work because, in the end, the editors can't be there. Credit and blame go together.

And when that happens, the first thing people tend to do is blame the coach, or blame the people that are picking players. And once you get into a finger-pointing mode of who took that first-round draft pick, or why did you let this player go, it tends to create divisiveness between those three people.

Andy was poorly coming into game. He will be disappointed but we certainly don't blame him.

Andy was understandably gutted at missing his kick but no-one can blame him. We are still in second behind Morley and there is still a long way to go.

I've spoken to many members of the legislature. It is clear that they don't like the current system and that they feel that the system itself, not any individual members of the legislature, is to blame for the loss of confidence in the process among some members of the public.

I've never heard kids blame other kids on stage to their faces before, and that has occurred this season. I have never heard people quit on stage in front of everybody and give the judges a mouthful, and say 'I'm quitting the show because of what you have said or what you have done,' and that has occurred... I have never seen people willing to s*** on other people as much as this crowd.

I've never heard kids blame other kids to their faces on-stage. I've never heard people give the judges a mouthful and say 'I'm quitting the show.' Everybody has more attitude this season. I've never seen people as willing to (be harsh to) others as this crowd. Before, we've said to them 'You want to win. You want to get rid of other people' and they've said 'No, we all love each other.' Well, not this crowd... Thank God there weren't any sharp instruments.

The school buses were controlled by the school board, not the mayor, ... You can't blame the mayor for that.

The running game is our job. No matter what defense they put out there, we have to be able to block it. When we don't, the blame has to go on our shoulders.

The way I see it is, each man has to be accountable for himself. But to sit here and blame everything on him, from an outside perspective, that's wrong. Because it's never one man out there. It's an 11-man game.

It would be easy to blame the officiating, but you can't.

There will be plenty of time to assess what worked and what didn't work. Clearly there will be time for blame to be assigned and to learn from some of the successful efforts.

It was a little disappointing, but we have no one to blame but ourselves. We let a couple of games slip by.

What happened that day, the rescue attempts and the generosity, what they've done, that's what should be there, period, ... Not talking about atrocities or blame America.

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

Users have no one to blame but RIM. They've been given a reasonable royalties offer, but they have refused to take it. BlackBerry owners have every right to be upset.

The opposition is not outside the process. They can't influence the process. The government, however, now has no one to blame for its policies.

The organization has been great and there's stuff I have to work on, ... I don't blame anybody. Everybody's been positive and trying to help me out. They're in my corner. Do I want to return? Absolutely. I've never had any hard feelings toward anybody here.

The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice

The public doesn't like our clients for the most part, and I don't blame them.

To me everybody has to share in the blame for the lack of success we had last year. The bottom line is that my job was to remove all the distractions and allow everybody to be completely focused on solely doing their job, having a great camp and getting ready for a great start. We don't dwell on last year anymore. We're excited about where we're at. To me how people respond to last year is the most important thing. I don't care about lip service. You can see the focus and the chance at redemption. Nobody wants to go through what they went through last year again.

We all have to take the blame for this one. As players and coaches, we have to look in the mirror. I thought we would be up and ready for this game, but I guess not.

We all know who will be the first to complain about natural gas prices this winter. And everybody here knows who will blame high prices on a corporate conspiracy, don't we? But the real conspirators seem to be New England and places like Fall River, Mass.

The other girls used to blame me whenever they got caught for something, so all the parents wrote in and said they didn't want me at the school.

We had a strong first 10 minutes and the rest of the first half was very ordinary. Mentally and physically we just weren't there, and we only had ourselves to blame for that. The second half was better but the bird had flown by then.

You can't blame anybody, especially Kenny. It's his goals that have got us to within a chance of qualifying.

You can't blame Burnsie for sitting on a lead,

We've had passengers stranded on taxiways for longer than that. I think it's really going to be a session for the secretary to browbeat people and really deflect blame from the Department of Transportation and the FAA.

This one's tough, and I take a lot of blame. I feel like I should have come through in those situations.

This one's tough. I take a lot of blame.

Total anonymity is not in the mayor's best interest, and so you have this game of the known anonymous giver. But who can blame him: He's giving $100 million, so he wants a little credit, but he doesn't want to be seen as trumpeting his giving.

Totally, totally unacceptable. You can't blame anyone...the players need to take responsibility for their actions. There is no explanation for that kind of play.

Brian Dugan's crimes -- and the murder of Jeanine was not the only one -- are horrific. But I hope that whoever ultimately decides Brian Dugan's fate bears in mind that he also had the moral courage to accept responsibility for a crime he alone committed, even though he knew that the blame had fallen elsewhere. In so doing he set in motion the chain of events that ultimately allowed two innocent men who had been sentenced to death to be restored to freedom. Dugan's evil deeds are extraordinary and repugnant, but his courage also was extraordinary.

We wanted him to stay but he wasn't keen to take less money and, to be honest, I don't really blame him considering all the travelling he has had to do.

Stress is a large problem, especially in the westernized world, and this study may help us understand some of the mechanisms behind breast cancer and how stress actually affects breast-cancer risk, ... Further, some women may partly blame their own stressful lifestyle when diagnosed with breast cancer. Hopefully, this and other studies may counteract such reactions.

The thing that stands out the most is a big-time playmaker on offense. Brandon (Lloyd) has made some big plays, and he has the potential to be a good receiver, but you don't have the guy who's the go-to guy on third down and he's going to make the play. That's the one thing that stands out the most. There are good football players here, but the depth wasn't as much as you'd like. There was a reason they had the record that they had. You don't blame all that on the coaching." ()