Admits Quotes
154 quotes by 144 authors
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Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.
— Ovid
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A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.
— Timothy Keller
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A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women’s capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.
— Layne Redmond
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Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of…
— Richard Cobden
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A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I…
— Robert Fisk
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A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Capacity for joy Admits temptation.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain...…
— Jean Giraudoux
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Nature admits no lie.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
— Madame de Stael
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The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
— Josephus Daniels
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Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits some at least…
— Thomas Aquinas
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No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
— Mason Cooley
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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
— Evan Esar
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