Best I Confess Quotes

106 I Confess quotes by 93 unique authors

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
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me. — Zane Grey
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
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
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
I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good. — Thomas Hooker
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I confess, I'm not the biggest fan of Twilight. — Tom Felton
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
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
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
I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. — Anton Chekhov
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
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
Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it. — Michael Faraday
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
I confess I've never felt like a passenger. — Roger Waters
As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either. — Sylvia Day
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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