Admitted Quotes

323 quotes by 275 authors

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories. — Teju Cole
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a… — Thomas Jefferson
C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to… — Robert Adams
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and… — Daniel Defoe
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among… — James Boswell
Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only to… — Johannes Itten
This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune… — Alfred Bester
Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one… — Sinclair Lewis
Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to… — Olympe de Gouges
The day when the Jew was first admitted to civil rights, the Christian state was in danger...the entrance of the Jew into {White) society marked… — Bernard Lazare
Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw… — Germaine Greer
A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on… — James Randi
On a recent survey, 80 percent of golfers admitted cheating. The other 20 percent lied. — Bruce Lansky
I see no reason why Indians who can give satisfactory proof of having by their own labor supported their families for a number of years,… — Rutherford B. Hayes
What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual:… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study of… — Roger Tory Peterson
The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the… — Pope Paul VI
There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred;… — Mary Antin
Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you… — Gabriel Byrne
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing… — Charles Caleb Colton

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