Confess Quotes

490 Confess quotes by 401 unique authors

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Charles Darwin
I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the… — Sonia Sanchez
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the… — Jorge Luis Borges
To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which… — Alfred de Vigny
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur… — Susanna Clarke
Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost. — Terry Goodkind
The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid.… — Lisa Kleypas
I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks,… — Jeff Lindsay
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. — Madonna Ciccone
I feel I owe you another explanation Harry," said Dumbledore hesitantly. "You may, perhaps, wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great… — Lewis Carroll
If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant. — Fernando Pessoa
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.… — Bram Stoker
In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such… — Jerry Bridges
But I have to confess, I'm glad you two had at least a few months of happiness together." I'm not glad," says Peeta. "I wish… — Suzanne Collins
I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold. — Erik Larson
When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will… — Jodi Picoult
You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to… — James Joyce
Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within… — Saint Augustine
The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone: not to friends… — Augusten Burroughs
Ornon said, "I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze, and I heard… — Megan Whalen Turner
I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist… — Jack Kerouac
No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains… — Saint Augustine
I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth. — John Marsden

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