Confessed Quotes

92 quotes by 83 authors

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed. — Samuel Johnson
There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,… — James Madison
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. — Henri Frederic Amiel
I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white… — Barack Obama
Christianity, like most religions, works with fear. Sins can be confessed and you are 'Clean again' and can start to sin again without thinking about… — Twiggy
You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to. — Keith Richards
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States Â of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting,… — Ida B. Wells
You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed. — Rush Limbaugh
That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow… — Samuel Johnson
Living day in and day out with guilt over sin that has not been properly confessed and forsaken expends a certain amount of emotional energy;… — Lou Priolo
I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to… — Abraham Lincoln
When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the… — Dale Carnegie
God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot. — Dwight L. Moody
Writer George Orwell confessed he found something "deeply appealing" about Adolf Hitler. Where Martha Dodd was struck by Hitler's "weak, soft face," Orwell discerned "a… — Brad Marchand
I used to be scared of pretty girls, until one confessed they're just as scared of me. — Emo Philips
Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with… — Homer
The word fate... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure. — Andrew Soutar
The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and… — Lou Henry Hoover
Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we… — Pope Benedict XVI
But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the… — Samuel Johnson

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