Admits Quotes
154 quotes by 144 authors
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Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass…
— Rafael Sabatini
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I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word "impinge"- barely misses a beat while indulging in…
— Nora Roberts
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There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read…
— Mark Twain
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What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and…
— Jack Vance
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Is that why you hate me?" I ask. "Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also think you're a little hard to swallow. With…
— Suzanne Collins
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She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.
— Christopher Isherwood
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Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.
— Jodi Picoult
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The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
— Jonathan Swift
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Tomer: “What's this?†Cabinet: “Wt's ths?†Wedge: “Cabinet.†Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.†Cabinet: “...ts tlkng†Janson: “Oh that. It's the…
— Aaron Allston
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I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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Bridget adds, "Did Anyone bring a weapon?" "Confiscated," Zach admits for both of us. Vesper holds up her metal fingernail file. "They didn't take this."…
— Cynthia Leitich Smith
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No man easily admits that he is afraid.
— Tess Gerritsen
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We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in…
— Brian D. McLaren
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The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that…
— R.K. Narayan
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I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated…
— Ayn Rand
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In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might…
— Samuel Johnson
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I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister this century. When…
— Tony Benn
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It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that…
— Christopher Hitchens
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