We Admit Quotes
43 quotes by 37 authors
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Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've…
— Maya Angelou
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If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for…
— Leo Tolstoy
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In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.
— May Sarton
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If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much…
— Richard Dawkins
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The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the…
— Claudia Rankine
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In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't…
— J L Austin
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We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men;…
— William Henry Harrison
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We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of…
— Ansel Adams
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If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new…
— George Berkeley
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When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea,…
— Cotton Mather
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God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can't…
— Chuck Smith
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Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we must confront the…
— Paul Romer
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When we try to make everything clear, we make everything confused. If, however, we admit one mysterious thing in the universe, then everything else becomes…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment.  The biggest barrier to equality for…
— Philip Gulley
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We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.
— Martin J. Whitman
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The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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One of the most difficult problems of our age is that leaders, and perhaps academics as well, cannot readily admit that things are out of…
— Donald Michael Kraig
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