The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You speak as if you envied him." "And I do envy him, Emma. In one respect he is the object of my… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies,… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
“But the second she opened her eyes and looked at me, I knew. She was either going to be the death of… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
“I think I fell in love with you that amazing night on the kitchen floor. Or maybe it was the evening you… — Maggie Osborne Copy Share Image
... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction… — Robert Ferrar Copy Share Image
I'm going to start by making a confession. My name's Sajid Javid. And I used to be a banker. No point denying… — Sajid Javid Copy Share Image
Admitting you were wrong about something isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of objectivity and maturity. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the… — Ira Levin Copy Share Image
Hated by Plenty...Wanted by Many...Disliked by Some...Confronted by None >:) — VishEmo Copy Share Image
Being scared isn't a sign of weakness, not admitting you were scared is. — Karina Barton Copy Share Image
