Admit Quotes

1917 quotes by 1439 authors

I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will… — Friedrich Nietzsche
People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer,… — Michael Ende
It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be… — Carol Shields
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . .… — Henry Miller
I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I… — Lauren Slater
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than… — Charles Darwin
I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless… — Sylvia Plath
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for… — Leo Tolstoy
Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it. — Nella Larsen
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny. — Philip Yancey
It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. — Laurie Halse Anderson
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air… — Henry David Thoreau
Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything. — Jack Kirby
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin… — Victor Hugo
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal. — Simone de Beauvoir
You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want. — Diana Wynne Jones
When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you… — Sara Gruen
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth… — Leo Tolstoy

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