Best I Confess Quotes
106 I Confess quotes by 93 unique authors
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When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
— Zane Grey
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Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer…
— Jean-Henri Fabre
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It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God.…
— Alan Redpath
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance,…
— Fanny Burney
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I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.
— Thomas Hooker
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Among many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was, "The cannibals! you will be eaten by…
— John Gibson Paton
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Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.
— Chris Van Allsburg
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Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear…
— Gaston Bachelard
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In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity
— Robert Browning
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Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me,…
— Blaise Pascal
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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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With women, my wiring shorts out. My senses respond to the physical and the chemical, the scent and sheen of her. Evil could not possibly…
— Paul Levine
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I confess, I'm not the biggest fan of Twilight.
— Tom Felton
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In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love,…
— Lady Gaga
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A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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I confess to you guys, I confess to the church, I know I have backed away from certain things because of my arrogance. I thought…
— Francis Chan
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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.
— Anton Chekhov
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Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
— Charles Lamb
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I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I…
— Paula Poundstone
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Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
— Michael Faraday
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I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been…
— Richard Cobden
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I confess I've never felt like a passenger.
— Roger Waters
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As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.
— Sylvia Day
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I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously…
— Jonathan Franzen
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