Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough… — P. M. Forni Copy Share Image
Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess,… — Stephen Stigler Copy Share Image
Telling someone you love them doesn't necessarily mean you can expect an I LOVE YOU TOO! in return sometimes you just have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships… — Diana Butler Bass Copy Share Image
“I must confess, that my heart is like a frozen lake, only pretends to be firm, to shroud its tearful ache. So… — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
“To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I don't know. I've come to tell you what I did.' Yes, that was the reason of his visit. It was the… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I love you.” I stared stupidly at him. Was he joking again, reciting another line from my story? I didn’t remember writing… — Jennifer Echols 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
That is what has been said in the media and at the trial. To this day nobody has produced one. There is… — John Wayne Gacy Copy Share Image
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Either [Jesus] was what he said he was or he was the world's greatest liar. It is impossible for me to believe… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty -… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Too many times I hesitate to say what's in my heart, because I have so much to say and I don't know… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. Prayer is a confession of… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Personally, I am thrilled that I can now let my characters clasp a rosary, mention confession or invoke the intercession of a… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Confession: Having kids did not fix me. I was not somehow more whole, less botched-up, or more certain just because I had… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
“Prayer, meditation, and confession actually have the power to rewire the brain in a way that can make us less self-referential and… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“My confession begins," Father S said, "as the confessions of many men begin - with three words" "Father forgive me?" Michael hazarded… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up and it was getting… — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
“The naive ambition when unexpressed, is like a confession regressed, as of a Failure in 'Failure Thwarting' awaiting success to come out… — Priyavrat Thareja Copy Share Image
I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
If a person puts his heart on the line and confessed, at most you should have said yes or no so I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Let me start with a confession: I don't enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I'm… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
Once you have surrendered completely to God, you experience for the first time absolute freedom from the worries, problems and ills of… — Ashok Kushwaha Copy Share Image