(226 quotes found)
“Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.”
Dan Quayle
“He who makes excuses, accuses himself”
French Proverb
“I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.”
Robert Frank
“One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.”
Don Shula
“There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign dealings are an open book, generally a check book.”
Will Rogers
“Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.”
Marlene Dietrich
“Adding racial accusation to the standing difficulty does not serve one victim, feed a single child, inspire a single person,”
Charles Lyons
“People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.”
Clare Short
“Consider the lowly word if. If can launch any accusation into the public arena in the guise of fact. If can poison a life as surely as cyanide. Grease a sentence with if and you can skid from speculation to impeachment in the time it takes to say, Tricky Dick.”
Mary Schmich
“Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.”
Charles I
