Acknowledged Quotes

226 quotes by 209 authors

We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison. — Jesse Torrey
The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows… — Stephen Leacock
An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones. — Samuel Richardson
Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldly led. ... The only consistency in Al Gore's… — Anita Dunn
It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to… — Aeschines
In my heart, there was joy mixed with sadness: joy that the nations atlast acknowledged that we are a nation with a state, and sadness… — David
I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest… — Theodore Roosevelt
How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through… — Nelson Mandela
We owe the animals our profoundest apologies. Defenseless and unable to retaliate, they have suffered immense agonies under our domination that most of us have… — Will Tuttle
Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the… — Ron Fournier
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all… — John Kenneth Galbraith
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong. — Alan Dershowitz
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces. — Helen Fielding
I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity… — Jane Fonda
Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime. — Bob Kane
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had… — T.E. Lawrence
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. — Andre Maurois
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. — Ashley Montagu
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be… — Ben Okri

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