Admission Quotes

155 quotes by 142 authors

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said,… — Andrew Carnegie
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits. — Edward Kennedy
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is… — John Dewey
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the… — Julia Cameron
Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're… — Lawrence Reed
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views… — Charles Lyell
Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall.… — Robyn Dawes
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests. — Germaine Greer
Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would never get another.… — Cleveland Amory
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering… — Max Lerner
Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of… — Giuseppe Mazzini
The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse. — Groucho Marx
The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe,… — Neal Asher
I think the country could be spared a lot of agony and the government could worry about inflation and a lot of other problems if… — William J. Clinton
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of… — Russell Baker
I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any… — Mike Huckabee
I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make… — Mahatma Gandhi
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not :… — Thomas Carlyle

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