Admitted Quotes

323 quotes by 275 authors

If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted… — Dick Cavett
Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the… — Calvin Coolidge
All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many… — Ambrose Bierce
The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never… — Samuel Johnson
If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate… — Patch Adams
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered… — Jean Cocteau
I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came… — Alice Hoffman
The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me. — R. K. Milholland
That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He… — Will Rogers
The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of… — Frederick Lenz
Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled… — David Mamet
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I would… — Jonathan Coulton

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